C*H*U*D's Ridgecrest

[Josh_Br]

I like a little toe out on any RC. Sounds like some worthwhile mods. Hope they do ya good tomorrow!

[jason]

Went to check out this thread, damn, all the pics are gone.

Host the pics here on RCC, and they never go away.

[DickyT]

Originally Posted by jason

Went to check out this thread, damn, all the pics are gone.

Host the pics here on RCC, and they never go away.

Juan has become too popular

[klampykixx]

put pics on facebook even and link them with IMG code?

[cooterwrenchen]

Me sad can't see pics

[C*H*U*D]

I can see them...nobody else can?

I bet it was that 5MB picture I accidentally put up in the tools section that knocked me over the limit. I deleted it, but Rockedup Ricky quoted it, so it's probably still killing my allowed monthly bandwidth.

edit:

Yeah, I just checked and I hit the 10GB limit for the month.

[DickyT]

Originally Posted by C*H*U*D

I can see them...nobody else can?

I bet it was that 5MB picture I accidentally put up in the tools section that knocked me over the limit. I deleted it, but Rockedup Ricky quoted it, so it's probably still killing my allowed monthly bandwidth.

You see them because it is stored in your browser cache since you posted. Delete all of your cache and cookies, or log on from a machine that you have never used before and you will see what the rest of us see.

[C*H*U*D]

You guys will just have to trust me that they are pretty cool pictures. It will reset at the end of the month.

[jason]

you have a star here, no reason you can host them here.

You can either attach them to a post, which means you cannot have text between them, or you can put them in an album and [img] code them like you do with photobucket.

[C*H*U*D]

It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks....I've been doing to photobucket thing for so long, it's a hard habit to break.

[C*H*U*D]

I think I have it fixed.

Ok, can everyone see the pictures now?

[BigSki]

I see the pics on this page, I didn't go into the 1st page. Ask Jason very nicely to do a step by step on the way to host pics directly to the site server, I'm sick of the pop-up crap on photobucket.

[Hittman]

That steering setup is innovative. Nice job

[C*H*U*D]

The steering worked much better tonight, but I only got to test it for 8 gates. I noticed both the front and rear shafts were starting to Candy Cane, but I thought they would last a bit longer. The front however had other plans:



Skidplate was there, and he actually had a great idea. He said that maybe filling it with epoxy before it broke might help strengthen it. If you have a set of these driveshafts, that might be some good preventative medicine.

I had offers to borrow parts to fix it, but I was up until 1:30 last night, so I was already pretty tired. I figured it was a good night to come home early, and check the carbonation in the keg and listen to some Ray Charles:



It will be two weeks before I can comp this again, so I should have new driveshafts and links before then.

[DickyT]

That is a pretty slick steering setup Juan

[Olle P]

I'm curious about the obsession with lowering the body. What's the reason?
To me one problem in crawling has been that the lower end of the body catch up with obstacles, so I want the low end pretty much as high as possible.
The body is light, so from a COG point of view I don't see it as an issue.

[Cpt Nemo]

On the Drive shaft issue, Cutting a piece of 7/32 piano wire and gluing it in the spline shaft works good.

[C*H*U*D]

Originally Posted by Olle P

I'm curious about the obsession with lowering the body. What's the reason?
To me one problem in crawling has been that the lower end of the body catch up with obstacles, so I want the low end pretty much as high as possible.
The body is light, so from a COG point of view I don't see it as an issue.

Yes the body is light, but it makes more than enough difference to make it worth the effort. Any time you can lower your COG (even just a little bit) with something as simple as lowering the body, you should take advantage of it.

As far as the bottom hanging up, that's another good reason to lower the body. You can curl the sides in (making sure you still stay legal) to help cover things like the chassis and even parts of the links.

Another reason is when you have to squeeze into tight spots. Having a body sticking up high can cause problems with it catching on lower hanging obstacles.

Originally Posted by Cpt Nemo

On the Drive shaft issue, Cutting a piece of 7/32 piano wire and gluing it in the spline shaft works good.

Another great idea! I was briefly thinking of beefing up the rear just to see how long it would last, but since I have a full set of MIP's laying around (as well as a set of Junfac's), I'll probably just swap everything.

[lowridinjuggalo]

after reading from page 1 C*H*U*D u have done an exalent job on converting this to a comp rig.

[cliff1119]

This is kinda changing my mine on the ridgecrest still up in the air on it,but its looking great