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02-11-2012, 04:24 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson/Las Vegas, NV
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|  "Hendertucky" trail/KOH tube buggy (scrapped the f100) ///Major change of plans, see post #67\\\ i live in Henderson, NV. a suburb of Las Vegas. Las Vegas natives fondly refer to it as Hendertucky, because in the 70s and 80s it was nothing but trailer parks, a rocket fuel factory (google "pepcon") and a few used car dealerships. i tried to quit, i sold almost everything, i told myself "no more RC builds, it's time for something new." that lasted a few months... i was down to just a tuber, a fun little rig that didnt fit into any class, wasn't at all scale and performed pretty well for costing me nothing to build. then a week or so ago i found out about a new scaler club here in vegas, i figured this would be trouble. i watched their videos, checked out their facebook page and met up with them at one of our local crawl spots yesterday morning. that was all it took, as soon as i got home that tuber was torn apart and project Hendertucky started. my goal is to spend as little as possible and use as much of the spare crawler shit in my garage as possible. so today i headed out to the garage and looked through all my old RC junk stashed out there. yes its a mess, i'm working on that.  started out by bending up some frame rails out of 1/2" square tube and digging out an old F100 body.  started disassembling the tuber, all of the drive train and electronics will be used on the F100.  got the frame rails all squared up and brazed in a couple of cross members   notched the rails like the SCX10's are to clear the servo. (yes i'm being lazy and leaving it on the axle, if it eventually bothers me enough i'll chassis mount it.)  mocked it up, it'll sit at 12" of WB.  even found a CF-100 interior for it!  this is where i'm at right now. i need to make/find/buy a skid plate so i can figure out where the trans needs to be mounted and start on the links.  Last edited by dieselfuel; 03-31-2012 at 05:11 PM. |
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02-11-2012, 05:05 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: canada
Posts: 94
| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
its a nasty habit aint it. good work on that frame |
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02-11-2012, 05:08 AM
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| RCC Addict  Join Date: May 2010 Location: Midwest
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| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
Coming along nicely.. Your putting hendertucky back on the map!
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02-11-2012, 07:48 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: las vegas
Posts: 7
| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
its henderspun now! hendertucky went out with the doedoe !  ...... yes, im just a hatefull north town kid ! ....... its lookin great brother ! |
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02-11-2012, 07:49 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Fortuna Calif.
Posts: 997
| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
Ha ha I have told myself that same thing over the past 30 years. Dont fight it you cant win. The early Ford body is looking good, a few drivers I know have used them for builds, nice
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02-11-2012, 10:15 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Las Vegas 89110
Posts: 585
| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
well shit. guess i didnt have to wait long to see the build. sweet start.
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02-11-2012, 07:53 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Las Vegas
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| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
Looks awesome..
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02-11-2012, 08:02 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: May 2009 Location: In the warmth!
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| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
Really liking that body...great start!
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02-11-2012, 08:17 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Chillin in Utardia
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| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
Good to see you |
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02-11-2012, 08:21 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tulsa
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Looks awesome man. that body looks great. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk |
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02-11-2012, 08:47 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sin City
Posts: 1,852
| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
Glad to see you back into the scalers. I'll be bringing mine back with me in a few weeks. |
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02-11-2012, 08:51 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
Welcome back, I don't like it! |
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02-11-2012, 09:39 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson/Las Vegas, NV
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Thanks guys! Drumbeater, we have a new Scaler club in town. Check out the NV section. Dez, I love you man. |
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02-11-2012, 09:49 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson/Las Vegas, NV
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I needed a skid plate and luckily, I found one. It's been used a few times before so it's got like 20 holes in it but I don't care. Mounting it between the frame rails wasn't gonna work, drivelines and links would be too steep. I've seen guys do this with SCX-10 frames, so I figured I'd do it too. Not entirely happy with the placement, might make some adjustments. I ran out of mapp gas so I'll have to wait til I get more.   Also started on links. Probably the only bling parts on the rig, rocksmith Ti links left over from another build.  |
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02-13-2012, 05:15 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Vegas
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| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
It's Hooterville! Get it right. LOL! |
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02-13-2012, 06:18 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson/Las Vegas, NV
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| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
haha not any more, gotta go to pahrump for that. good to see you in here rizzo.. |
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02-13-2012, 06:39 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Antonio
Posts: 409
| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
Looks good so far Scott! Wish I was still out there with you guys! Cool more people are getting into scalers now!
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02-13-2012, 08:35 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Las Vegas 89110
Posts: 585
| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
looking good
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02-13-2012, 09:13 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson/Las Vegas, NV
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02-13-2012, 10:31 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Orlando
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| Re: Project "Hendertucky" '70 F100 beater
You can take the crawlers out of your garage, but you can't the...garage...The garage is a crawler.....Your crawler...Hold on...errr..You can take the crawler....Nevermind... Welcome back...this shit is like a crack, one hit is NEVER enough. I've always loved your build and your MOHAWK. |
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