The " First German Poison Dart"

[Blader]

Hi.

Just wanted to show you some pics of my PD.

Don't look at the pumpkin, I hate him, my wife loves him = I love my wife, so he's still here

And don't look at the wheels, the new ones are on the way...























I'd like to read your comments and suggestions to make it better.

Thanks.
Blader

[roadman440]

Looks pretty sweet. Any specs on it?

[PowerCrazy]

Looking good. Where are you in Germany? I'll be there in a couple of months for a couple of years so I need to find some good crawler spots.

[DRV KRAWLER]

That looks Great ! How about some specs for fellow "PD" builders. What gives with the white on the bottom. I think black would be sweet ! AWESOME BUILD !

[Blader]

Thanks boys.

I'm living near Frankfurt/Main. Here's not a real crawler paradise.
Where in Germany are you going to live, PowerCrazy?

Specs? Ok.

Axles with UD and OD gears.
beeftoobs f + r
3racing shafts
selfmade knuckles with weight system and 0 Ackermann steering
BTA link from KC Jones
adjustable caster angle (so complete bta steering is not possible yet)
HS 7954 servo with Losi servo horn
BigBore Alu shocks with Mini-T springs and selfmade rod end caps and Doug's spring retainers
selfmade "d-mount" rear
selfmade shock stands(? sorry, don't know the english word..) rear
MIP shafts
Robitronic Crawler ESC ( fat but fine! ) with 17,5T brushless motor
Turnigy Nanotech 1300mAh batteries
and so on....

I've thought about dyeing the other white delrin parts black, but I don't know how deep the black colour will enter the delrin. If it scratches over rough surfaces and becomes white again...dyeing will become a never ending story... haven't got a contract with RIT

Do you think it will work?

[jimmyshor]

Good work Blader, hope you dont run into trouble like i did . Love your country's flag on the roof By the way, visited your country last year - impressed....hope this year i'll make it to Bavaria (if you can point me to some nice places, maybe we somehow could meet).

Did you run some crawling test ? Some videos ?

[PowerCrazy]

I'll be living in Bamberg, I have found some promising areas on a german forum hopefully i can find a spot not too far

[DRV KRAWLER]

I must say that black from these pictures is unbelievable. It is so dark and deep in color, I would say yes on good penetration. But, I am no expert on dying Delrin. I keep coming back and looking at it. "The First Black German Poison Dart".

[jimmyshor]

Read it as a joke :
i liked Germany because it's a clean country (among other things - that is not a joke, it's the kind of place i would live in and the only country in Europe i would leave my countr for), but i love my country as i can find (almost anytime) a dirty place to crawl (please replace dirty with a place where people dump cement, concrete and other "rocky" stuff). I live 120km away from the closest mountain.

Blader, are you considering a dig unit ?

[Blader]

Bamberg is a nice area.
You will find some spots, ask in http://www.scalecrawler.de/index.php?page=Index forum, the guys are very helpful.

@jimmyshor, I'm far away from Bavaria, 20kms or so, but in the north. The mountains with fine crawler spots are about 100kms or more away...
Where in Bavaria will you go? You too can search in the german forum for good spots. I can help you to find something, if you want.
Tests, yes, in my garden with no rocks but stones and little steps, not very exciting.
The stairs to my house PD does very well
No, with this nearly finished PD I've not been onto the rocks yet.
You'll get some pics if I did!!

[jimmyshor]

if in this summer i'll make it to DE, be sure i will challenge you

[Blader]

Yeeeeaaah Chris, and if I continue like that, ma GPD will swim, dive and fly...
Go ahead!!

You're right, Germany is clean...if you close at least one eye....
well, if you compare it with other countries, it's right. I also love my country!! Sure!!

No DIG !! I don't do comps, so I don't need one. And in the class I would drive if I drived comps, I don't need one too.

Talking about the black: I did alot of work with dyeing the parts, trying 2 powders which where junk, but other peoples wrote it would work. Bad!!
Ordered RIT in UK, cooked the parts for 1 1/2 hours und let them take a bath in that black juice for another 12 hours. Now the black is nearly perfect.

You make me thinking about BGPD....hummmm... should I ??

Only 12 screws... I'll think about it...

[Blader]

Originally Posted by DRV KRAWLER

What gives with the white on the bottom. I think black would be sweet !

You mean...like this:





Dyeing is very easy with RIT.

And you were right, black is better.

[DRV KRAWLER]

Man, now that is a scary looking "Poison Dart" ! I am affraid if I got to close I might start to Hellucinate. All who shall cross the path of the "BLACK GERMAN POISON DART" Beware. " Did you see the size of that chicken ?" Emilio Estevez, Quote from the movie Young Guns.

[KC_JoNeS]

Man, that black is awesome! The breakover angle looks good, your height looks good....has unbelieveable steering. Nice job Blader!

3 thumbs up!

Casey

[Blader]

Thanks guys!
Your comments are very valuable for me, I appreciate them.

Now that I know that all angles and length are ok, I can make the front upperlinks in black delrin too and change some other parts into black ones.
The new wheels will arrive soon, I hope, and they will give him another sensational look.
You will see.

And then, be careful and don't come too close...it bites!!!

Blader

[Highlucks]

Murdered out frogger looks cool man. It may just be the photos but it kind of looks like you have the front links on back to front. The longer flat portion of the link should be at the chassis side.

[Blader]

Thank you highlucks.

I'll have a look at the links this afternoon.

[Uli]

Originally Posted by PowerCrazy

I'll be living in Bamberg, I have found some promising areas on a german forum hopefully i can find a spot not too far

When will you be over here?
Our nats will take place june 10-12 near Frankfurt(about 50km south of it). Check out the german forum (www.rockcrawler.de) and look for "Supercrawl 2011".

[DRV KRAWLER]

For your """c) "pattented" next Poison Dart top panel "enclosure" """, which is very usefull because you must not always cut the zip ties if you want to work at the car, I can tell you that I use neither straps nor zip ties.
Look at my pics!!
The panels are held by "Bladers patented air hooks".

Your so funny, I had done the same thing on "OG FROGGER" original panels. So I guess I'll see you at the patend office. Bring your Lawyer.