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I Egressed my Bantam

I couldn't wait till I finished this to show it off! I took the last remaining part of my Progress Chassis (The Skid Plate) off, and went in a new direction. I've been envious of Egressor's Tuber for quite some time now, and got to thinking that it might just be possible to adapt his inovative single point lower link set-up to a delrin frame. With the design of the Progress frame I was pretty close, so I decided to give it a try. I want to let you all know that the "Progress" is a great crawler set-up, but I just love to design and tinker, so I started tinkering and designing :lmao:
Here's what I came up with............

http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/p...dBantam007.jpg

http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/p...dBantam005.jpg

http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/p...dBantam003.jpg

http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/p...dBantam006.jpg

http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/p...dBantam008.jpg

Like I said I couldn't wait to get it done before I showed it off. I am about 1/4" short on the wheelbase as it sits, and will remedy this by replacing the rear lower links. As you can see I don't have the clearance of Egressor's tuber but it will.......... The electronics are just stuck in the frame and need to be fastned in place. New panels need to be made for the new redesigned 1/16" topper, and the BWD motor covers need to be installed. I drove it over some obstacles in the garage a while ago and I think this thing is gonna be awesome!

That looks pretty cool, good job"thumbsup"

Interesting, who needs a skid right? "thumbsup"

You plan on making higher clearence rear lowers. You would have hella breakover.

Man that looks crazy. I like it a lot.

Interesting chassis....common point for bottom links are an interesting idea. Wonder how that works out....

:shock::shock:

really nice work "thumbsup""thumbsup" (as usual )

that's make me thinking about doing something in the same way 8)

was always wondering why there is no moa without a skid, and here we go :)"thumbsup"
C'mon, show us some action, we are drooling:mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by Jeepkid (Post 3322838)

You plan on making higher clearence rear lowers. You would have hella breakover.

Most deffinitely! If all goes well tonight (no honey do's), I plan on mocking some up out of all thread, and get some titanium ordered "thumbsup"

If you guys haven't seen EGRESSor's "Tuber" thread, you need to check it out. He's got som video of just how well this concept works. Christian is a very talented Genius!!!!!!"thumbsup"

Wow! Very nice work. It's not too often you see this level of innovation mixed with style.

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Originally Posted by eisman (Post 3323160)

Wow! Very nice work. It's not too often you see this level of innovation mixed with style.

Thanks man, but I think it looks kinda weird from the side now. Hopefully the panels will make it look a little more "normal" :lmao:

Great idea there. Any ideas on how you will get the electronics to stay in place?

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Originally Posted by Mides (Post 3323198)

Great idea there. Any ideas on how you will get the electronics to stay in place?

Bec and RX will get servo taped to the frame side, and I'll probably install a short tray to stick the rest of it to. I will have very little to none of it sticking out of the frame. Should look close to what it does now.
On a side note, I was in Sidney in February of 1971 for R&R from Vietnam and stayed at the Bondi Hotel across from Bondi Beach. I remember a lot of rock around there. Do you ever do any crawling around there now? Is the Hotel still there? That is one cool city, I always wanted to go back and stay longer. Five days and Four nights weren't long enough!!!!!

Looks good TJ, it's a interesting evolution going on here, good work keep it going. "thumbsup"

now bring it over i so can see it work. do work driver do work looks killer steve an cant wait to see it work. i have bult some new lines out at the house so get over here an let it eat"thumbsup"

Dope. Kinda throws off the lines of the overall cincept, but looks like she'll go fine.

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Originally Posted by slowride1 (Post 3324003)

now bring it over i so can see it work. do work driver do work looks killer steve an cant wait to see it work. i have bult some new lines out at the house so get over here an let it eat"thumbsup"

I will take you up on that Randy if I can get the panels made and the BWD motor covers on. I'll have to throw the other Titanium lowers back on also, I don't think the all thread would last very long.:lmao: