Originally Posted by
NativePaul
No need to worry about quality for any of the composite hulls I have listed, there is none of the thick brittle gellcoat or vinylester resin, or air bubbles associated with rhe popular RTRs. They are all at worst vacuum bagged epoxy glass hulls.
Don't take this as a diss against MHZ, but amongst this company their quality is middle of the road, the Stinger and ETTI are better, H&M and Tenshock are comparable, and while Ecomaster Eraser and Mini Hydro are as well moulded individually. They are not joined wet on wet meaning that they do have small seams and I would rank them lower.
A motor weighing about 70g (2836 ish inrunner or 2816 ish outrunner) with 3000kv, 30a watercooled or 50a uncooked ESC, and 30- 32mm low blade area cnc prop will give you 5-6 minutes runtime in one of these on 3s 2200mAh, or with 50A watercooled ESC and 34-36 mm prop you can do sprint style for limited run times.
I don't think mini classes are raced anywhere in America so there is little call for them there. NAVIGA members are mostly in Europe and Asia so that is where most are made. Tenshock and ETTI are both in Hong Kong.
The only one I know of in America is Oxidean Marine who sell the tenshock Mini Mono as their Mini Dominator. Though I would read up about their customer service before buying from him rather than importing, he's charging more than Tenshock or Ecomaster do, so needs to offer good customer service at least.
I know Ecomaster, MHZ, H&M, and ETTI ship to the U.S.
I know at one point Tenshock had an exclusivity deal with their U.S. dealer minicatracing and wouldn't import privately but as sailr posted here that he was retiring and trying to sell the company a while back, I have no idea if that is still in effect. He may also still have some stock of the older Tenshock mini products he sold.