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Old 06-30-2012, 03:22 AM   #1
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Default Axial (semi tuber) in the works!
It's been a while since I built one, I'm using 1/4 rod and a mig welder. Still no tube or oxy/acetylene set up yet.
If anyone has suggestions please help
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Old 06-30-2012, 05:40 AM   #2
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well hard to say, only 1 pic.
looks good so far.

perhaps try to tack/dot weld, that weld you have there will effortless hold up for 100 times your rc car weight.
they look good anyways.
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Old 06-30-2012, 11:23 AM   #3
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I made a skidplate in Sketchup to turn my trans up on it's side like that, but have no means to get it made. Now that I'm wanting to go bodiless, hardly seems worth investing anything in a skidplate for my stock AX.

Keep us posted, I'm kinda interested to see how this turns out.
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Old 06-30-2012, 12:59 PM   #4
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I made a skidplate in Sketchup to turn my trans up on it's side like that, but have no means to get it made. Now that I'm wanting to go bodiless, hardly seems worth investing anything in a skidplate for my stock AX.

Keep us posted, I'm kinda interested to see how this turns out.
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well hard to say, only 1 pic.
looks good so far.

perhaps try to tack/dot weld, that weld you have there will effortless hold up for 100 times your rc car weight.
they look good anyways.
Thanks. The weld there was tacked i just tacked it all the way since it was for the tranny, figuring a lot of torque would come out of it plus that plate is really thin. I hope to get more up today.
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Old 06-30-2012, 11:57 PM   #5
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Little bit of progress

Still need to clean up the welds, suuuper tight fit with the motor.
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Old 07-01-2012, 06:24 AM   #6
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It's a interesting build so far you've obviously got something unique in mind.
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Old 07-01-2012, 10:09 AM   #7
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Something different....looking good....starting to do some myself, so watching this....
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Old 07-01-2012, 08:06 PM   #8
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It's a interesting build so far you've obviously got something unique in mind.
Thanks! Usually I just start bending cut and weld. Never really a solid plan


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Something different....looking good....starting to do some myself, so watching this....
I think I'm going to start a different one. Do you have a link to yours?
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What I did last night. Not really diggin it though :/
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I think I'm going to start a different one. Do you have a link to yours?[/QUOTE]

Not yet...still gathering materials and tools. I will braze though, and anything related to that will catch my eye lately. I will share my progress as soon as I get halfway good at it.
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just a thought.

is not the motor more weight then the tranny?
woud perhaps be better to have the motor as low as possible??

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just a thought.

is not the motor more weight then the tranny?
woud perhaps be better to have the motor as low as possible??

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Yeah I knew that comment was coming but at the time I already had put it on and figured F it
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This is awesome so far. Question: is that tubing or solid rod? If rod, won't this be pretty heavy? Just wondered. Maybe the weight is part of your plan.
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Old 07-04-2012, 04:14 PM   #14
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This is awesome so far. Question: is that tubing or solid rod? If rod, won't this be pretty heavy? Just wondered. Maybe the weight is part of your plan.
Yeah it's 1/4 rod. The chassis is a ton I don't have money for tubing and I have about 100 ft of the rod.
No plan towards the weight, just that its all I have to use.
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Yeah it's 1/4 rod. The chassis is a ton I don't have money for tubing and I have about 100 ft of the rod.
No plan towards the weight, just that its all I have to use.
I can certainly understand that. Good luck to you; looking forward to seeing how it turns out. I like the sideways tranny idea. Is that to make the truck more narrow in the center?
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Old 07-20-2012, 05:44 PM   #16
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I can certainly understand that. Good luck to you; looking forward to seeing how it turns out. I like the sideways tranny idea. Is that to make the truck more narrow in the center?
yeah I thought it would look better. I scrapped this built and working on a "sporty" rig seems like thats the new thing
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yeah I thought it would look better. I scrapped this built and working on a "sporty" rig seems like thats the new thing
Build it! Who cares what the "new thing" is. Do what you want.
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Build it! Who cares what the "new thing" is. Do what you want.
I actually like the look of the new thing I'm working on. I barley have time to work on it now though..
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