That's awesome to hear! Glad to help :-)

I'm not going to lie I was cringing a little too. I'm confident in the reinforcement but it's a really thin body. Held up great though :-) thanks for watching!

Awesome yeah it's definitely worth it! Let me know how it turns out :-) Thanks for watching if you enjoy the videos a sub to my channel is appreciated.

Yeah I think we've all got a body or two glued to the side of the house :-) Seriously though it can be a pretty messy process especially the first couple times you do it but it does get better with practice and it is worth it.

That's an interesting idea! I've never really worried too much about it being too even but definitely sounds like something to try in the future :-) thanks for watching and if you aren't already subscribed a sub is appreciated!

An old gift card works to, or a silicone spatula from the 99 cent store.

It’s just like silicon anything wet will smooth it out I usually just use a pot of water and keep wetting your finger to smooth it

@liamwilliams7782 Yep as long as it's wet it'll work. I have found that an old gift card works really good for spreading it.

@@DoRC that sounds like a better idea I will have to give it ago when I next do one probably saves a lot as well as your scrapping off all the unnecessary excess I come out the rc hobby for awhile but getting bored was sat on eBay & just grab myself 5 cheap rc projects so will definitely give this a go on one of them mate and see how it holds up so yeah appreciate the information buddy 👍

To be honest I wasn't even sure what would happen when I stomped on it. It took it like a champ though. Can't guarantee that everybody would survive like that but it certainly wouldn't have without the reinforcement. Thanks for watching!

Thanks!

Yeah the adhesive on it is definitely better and makes the process a little bit more tolerable :-)

Yeah I have a video on gorilla tape as well. I think it's the best quick and easy method though like you said not quite as strong as the one shown in this video.

In what way is it better? I'd have to imagine they're pretty similar material but the window screen doesn't have any self-adhesive. Doesn't that make it a lot more difficult to apply? Have you tried the cement board tape on the video? It's a lot with than drywall tape

Yeah he's kind of a diva though.

Yeah this is a little bit of a pain and can be very messy but once you do it a few times it's fairly straightforward and it definitely makes bodies last a lot longer

Glad you enjoyed and welcome to the hobby:)

Yeah if you just want a little light reinforcement goo works fine. If you do find that you need a little bit more try putting bits of the drywall tape in as well. It makes a huge difference.

It really does make bodies amazingly more durable. Glad you enjoyed thanks for watching and if you aren't already subscribed a sub is appreciated!

Thanks man I appreciate it!

Glad you enjoyed :-) if you're not already subscribed a sub to my channel is appreciated!

Yeah pretty much anything that will reinforce it definitely helps. I use gorilla tape on bodies that aren't going to be getting beat up too badly or just what I'm feeling lazy. Thanks for watching and if you enjoy my videos a sub is appreciated:)

Don't worry about that :-)

You're welcome :-) It definitely makes a huge difference! Thanks for watching and if you enjoy the videos a sub is appreciated

That definitely sounds like a option. It doesn't make the body to stiff and or heavy?

Yeah definitely do it outside. That's why I showed it being done outside and mentioned it in the video :-). It is not an indoor activity as I'm sure anybody who tried to do it indoors would find out very quickly. Thanks for watching and if you aren't already subscribed a sub is appreciated :-)

I thought he was talking about the truck body being ventilated to keep the electronics a little cooler

I don't think so. The glue really stinks and it needs to be done outside otherwise you're going to give yourself a headache

Absolutely. I would never bash a body without doing this first. It's a little bit of a pain but it makes the bodies last so much longer

I haven't really had any issue with e6000 running though I do think that it being a little thinner is advantageous because it's easier to spread. Honestly I've had the opposite problem where e6000 tends to skin over really quickly but I used shoe goo for years before switching to e6000 and it works just fine!

Yeah if you haven't done it before you're going to be amazed! It makes a huge difference in body durability. Let me know how it goes

Yeah that was with a 2S lipo in it. I actually took it camping with me this weekend and so far I'm really happy with it. I'm going to buy some upgrades for it and put a brushless system in it. Thing is a lot of fun!

@@DoRC , you really don't need the brushless. A Gens Ace 3200Mah 3s made my dirt bug a very angry drunken baby. I bought a VLX Traxxas brushless set that wound up in my Kyosho Fazer Chevele.

Well I will definitely try a 3S before I go brushless then :-)

I haven't. Is it adhesive back I couldn't really tell from the listings I found on it.

@@DoRC No adhesive backing. That'll make it a little more work, but hopefully it'll be worth it. Picked some up last night, and have new bodies in the mail.

@@leaftye how did that work out for you?

Yeah I suppose if you used enough that might happen though it's never been a problem for me.

@@DoRC I did it on a 1/12 scale basher body a while back. Total noob mistake.. I was securing light wires with hot glue like it was a foam plane, instead of taping them. I didn't think it would warp, but it pretty much melted the plastic and caused a huge dent. Just a cautionary, not criticizing I like the cement tape idea

@@scaleworksRC ah. Okay yeah sometimes those smaller car bodies can be pretty thin. It also might have been PVC and not polycarbonate which has a lower glass transition temperature. That being said I'm sure it is possible to soften a polycarbonate body with hot glue it's just not something I've ever done :-)

You mean e6000? Yes they do seem very similar. I like the e6000 though because you can get it in a caulking gun tube. Makes application a lot faster. It can get pretty messy though cuz it tends to ooze but I like it better

@@DoRC yes typo..... Where's my coffee?

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) there aren't any skate parks near my house. Honestly though I wouldn't go if there were. You'll ALWAYS tear stuff up at a skate park. There are plenty of channels that dedicate themselves to breaking things. I like to show bash testing that is closer to how most regular ppl bash:). Thanks for watching and commenting!

@DoRC wasn't suggesting skate park because of other channels. I live in NYC the concrete jungle and seeing bashers in a skate park is not uncommon at all. It's actually my boys favorite place to and after doing some bashing there myself I see why. The down side is the beating on the car so tips like yours certainly help! I'm going to try everything you suggested and see how it goes!

Yeah the body reinforcement will absolutely make them last longer no matter how you're bashing.

I'd say the Notorious Body is just average. It's fine but nothing special. The new Kagama body is far superior.

Yep! Thanks for watching :-)

That was my girlfriend. She just took different colors and splashed it on with a brush

Yes you can get in the smaller sizes it's just cost more.

Let me know how it goes!

@DoRC thank s man awesome video s I trying the e6000 spray will update you on here

Yeah it's definitely worth doing :-) thanks for watching!

Hey I don't normally do links cuz they're always changing and then I end up putting stuff up that isn't valid anymore. It also depends on what country you're in. I was able to purchase both of these things from Amazon without any trouble though. Thanks for watching and if you aren't already subscribed a sub is appreciated :-)

From what I can tell they are identical. They behave exactly the same look exactly the same and smell exactly the same. Even if they are different I don't think it matters. E6000 in the caulk tube is the way to go!

​@@DoRC where are you finding this?

Maybe though that would make the body pretty stiff and I'm not entirely sure that the resin would react well with the paint. It also would be very heavy unless you were really judicious with the glass and resin. I think overall the drywall tape and shugu is an easier method though the fiberglass and resin might end up being stronger in the long run.

@@DoRC i think raptor liner is ,see is great and fast sprayed on

I think I got mine on Amazon. Thanks for watching and if you enjoy my videos a sub is appreciated :-)

They dont ship to Alaska on amazon. Not the glue

You could try it though I'm not sure how well it would work. The polycarbon is already pretty durable and I'm not sure a layer of paint on top of it It's going to make a whole lot of difference. If you do try it make sure you use a polycarbonate specific paint.

Absolutely. The fiberglass tape is amazing at repairing already damaged bodies.

I'm honestly not sure which one is more durable. The truck bed liner actually probably is the more durable of the two but it's also way heavier, in my opinion less convenient cuz you have to go somewhere to get it done, more expensive and makes the body so thick that body clips don't fit well anymore. Now that's all talking about having it professionally truck bed lined. I've tried the DIY bed liners and in my experience they really just don't work that well. They tend to rip easily and just don't provide the same kind of protection.

They stopped carrying them so you can't get the jwgs version anymore. It is a cen h150 though which is still available.

@@DoRC it's not $99.00 anymore it's $299.00 !!

@@timmy4539 Yeah the $99 thing was a closeout deal from jegs.

Unless I'm testing something I don't crash my stuff on purpose but I do crash stuff all the time anyway. Reinforcing the body is a pretty simple and inexpensive way to make it last a lot longer than it would otherwise! Thanks for commenting and if you enjoy my videos a sub to my channel is appreciated :-)

oh dear, you crash all the time and not on purpose , oh dear oh dear. 🤣.

Don't get me wrong I take a lot of chances that end up in crashes but I don't do it on purpose Like I said unless I'm testing something. For me unless I'm pushing the limits I'm not really having fun though so pushing those limits often ends in something going wrong.

Yes it's been done. In my experience neither one of them works as well as e6000. I've heard a few get the professional spray in bed liners done they work really well but they're also extremely heavy.

Depends on what vehicle you are doing. For normal 1/10 or 1/8 scale vehicles one two will probably be enough but if you're doing something larger it almost certainly won't be.

4s arrma kraton 2.5

I don't see why not. Obviously do the cement board tape and adhesive first.

Thank you! Is it okay to layer the cement tape 2-3 layers?

@@coolmaster3599 sure though keep in mind the more weight you add to the vehicle the more likely it is that things are going to break in a crash so there's definitely a balance

That is something good to keep in mind, thank you! I was hoping to do a double layer in some of the spots on the Kratom body that I know are super weak. I have already ruined two bodies in the same spot on the bed of the truck. Hopefully a double layer there keeps things holding up for a little while longer.

@@coolmaster3599 Yeah I don't think there's anything wrong with doing a double layer in particularly vulnerable spots.

I'll give you a hint. It's still there :-)

The bedliner does work pretty well as long as it's a professionally done one. The rattle can ones don't work very well in my experience they just tend to rip with the body. They downsides to the professionally done bedliner are that you have to take it somewhere and pay someone else to do it and that it makes the body very very heavy.

No it's just the mesh tape and glue. The black you see is just black paint that was used to back the paint job on it.

The rattle can versions aren't as good. If you go to a professional installer and have them spray on a bedliner it's very durable though it also makes the body very heavy.

@@DoRC ok. I'll stick with the e6000 method. Thx.

@@TheDepep1 no problem thanks for watching!

I've been using Clear FlexSeal. The small can. It goes on easily and thin, and I let it dry before doing a second thin coat. Works very well and doesn't add as much weight to the body.

@kristopherdonaldson9569 flex seal is okay and it is lightweight but it doesn't provide the same level of protection as this method. If you're looking for some casual reinforcement it definitely is good but it's not as good as tape and goo

A body like that will take a full tube. I now use the larger caulk style tubes. If you can get something similar like shoe goo or something like that it might be better. Or is the size limitation a legal thing?

@@DoRC our restrictions are usually based on American companies using dangerous additives as is the case with the product you used unfortunately. I found a British equivalent called The Dogs Bollox (quite a normal name here). Others use it in the UK and as there's no importing, it's very cheap. I watched a guy do an xmaxx using the product I mentioned and he said one tube should do it so he had better be correct.

Yes it does! I wasn't even aware it would run on 3S when I made that video. I hadn't really messed with it much but I have now and it's a lot of fun!

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. The reinforcement goes on the underside of the body so that will inherently protect things from getting scratched.

@@DoRC I mean the bottom of the vehicle, where it can rub on the ground, curbs, etc.

@@ryanvoogt5036 ah. Depending on the vehicle You might be able to get skid plates. They also make chassis skins that can help somewhat. That being said generally speaking there's not much you can do about it and it's just sort of a part of bashing.

Can you get shoe goo in Europe?

​@@DoRCnon 😕

What kind of adhesive is it. Probably another brand sells it in your country.

1ish. Some areas will end up with a little bit more but in my experience one is enough

That's a bummer. I've heard of two other people who had that happen to them. It's really weird that most of the time it's not a problem.

I haven't but I have tried other spray adhesives and found them to be a little thin

Not sure. I've never tried that

Up to a point yes. If you seal the end of it well then the tube will last a while. It will eventually harden up though and you may at least have to cut some more off the end of the nozzle to get fresh product out. I would say for a normal size body you'll probably use about a third of the tube. That's not really a big problem for me because I reinforced bodies fairly frequently but if it's going to be 6 months between body reinforcements for you you might end up scrapping the rest of the tube.

Where does it cost that much?

I think it depends on what you use for the glue. As long as it could remain flexible and stuck to the body well it would probably be okay. Would fiber composite is surprisingly strong and durable. Try it and let me know! Thanks for watching and if you aren't are you subscribed a sub is appreciated.

I've never done it but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't make things stronger. You are definitely going to be running into diminishing returns at some point though and the body's going to end up pretty heavy.

On average just one but I will sometimes add a second layer If I know there are areas of high impact or high wear and sometimes it does overlap itself so you'll end up with two layers even if you don't mean to in places.

Ok cool Ty ! Appreciate it 👍🏼

@michaelrios1747 You're welcome Thanks for watching :-)

The tape itself does not stick very well. You can use a little bit of hot glue in the corners to hold it in place while you apply the adhesive.

I've never had it happen but it's definitely a better safe than sorry kind of thing. If you have any concerns of it put a little bit of the glue and inconspicuous place and let it dry and see what happens.

@@DoRC Thanks, I'll try it out when my new body comes.

Sounds good let me know how it goes!

Well the idea is that you learn to do it in 5 minutes and I get that it's not exactly 5 minutes long but it's also a KZfaq video so maybe a little bit of creative license is being employed. Thanks for watching :-)

The video is 5 minutes long. That's what I meant. That being said I've done it enough times that I bet I could get pretty close to 5 minutes:)

Really the best thing to do would be a 3D scan it and then have it milled from a solid block of titanium but at some point the weight and amount of time and effort involved are going to outweigh the benefits.

It doesn't. E6000!

It's video that's 5 minutes long not the process :-) I've been doing this for years on many bodies as of a lot of other people. It's very effective. It doesn't make the body indestructible but it certainly makes it last a lot longer. This was not my original idea either. It's been around for at least a decade. Anyway thanks for watching and commenting :-)

@@DoRC Damn man you made me feel bad about my comment. The thing is that I’ve seen people do and I did try it myself on my first kraton body and when I crashed, all that stuff just ripped the paint right off. I’ve also done Raptor spray liner and the same thing happened. It’s the paint that’s the weak link.

@@Blankholes interesting. I've never really had a problem with it ripping the paint off. I've probably done this on 30 or 40 bodies over the years and I've never had that happen. I have seen a couple people mention it happening but it was on bodies that they painted themselves. Usually the factory screen finishes pretty tenacious It sucks that you're experience with it was bad but I assure you I don't put any videos up about things I don't firmly believe in and do myself. I try to keep my channel as real as possible. Likes and subs are good but my integrity's worth more than any of that.