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11-25-2010, 12:38 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Corona
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|  Upper and Lower Link building
What size and diameter of material is being used? Where do I get the tap set need for the rod ends? Looking for more info on delrin bending also. A local hardware store has delrin rod but it seems flimsy is there certain kinds or what? Do you heat it up to bend it? Some starting points on lengths and bends would be great too. I have a xr10 all stock for now. Any links would be appreciated. Forgive the questions I am a crawling/link building n00b.  Jared |
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11-25-2010, 03:36 PM
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| Quarry Creeper  Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: sacramento
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check out the general crawlers section look in the sticky bender put up there is a ton of info in there here is a link to what your looking for though  Making Links Last edited by cascade crawler; 11-26-2010 at 01:25 PM. Reason: fix link |
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11-25-2010, 06:37 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rapid City
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Link doesnt work Bummer.  |
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11-25-2010, 06:48 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2007 Location: Prescott
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11-25-2010, 07:31 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2008 Location: Mansfield, PA
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I use 3/8" delrin for my lowers and 5/16" delrin for my uppers. I usually just drill and tap the delrin and then use 25mm set screws in each end for the rod ends and that works fine, i have never had one break. If you want to, just for safety, you can drill the delrin all the way through (with a lathe) and use a peice of 4mm or 8-32 threaded rod full length. As far as bending the delrin, i just heat it with a heat gun and bend it... then hold it until it cool... I usually do this with a fixture using a wood board and wooden dowels. It make them easy to duplicate. BTW, A lot of guys are using steel or titanium for their links which also works great... I just dont care for the look of tiny diameter links... I like the big, beefy look of 3/8" delrin links. Either one works just fine... to each his own. Last edited by Trugg; 11-26-2010 at 08:19 PM. | |
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11-26-2010, 01:16 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Nor Cal
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I prefer 3/8" delrin for my lowers, and 1/4" aluminum rod for uppers All with revo or jato ends |
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11-26-2010, 01:27 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: sacramento
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fixed it sorry |
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