Helios RC - Yeti XL Solid Axle Steering Conversion EDIT: this is the official production announcement. For more pictures and discussion please check out the other thread. Yeti XL Aficionados, After much testing we're releasing the solid axle steering conversion kit. http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/new-p...ml#post5278882 We're really proud that we're the first to release these and get them done. A few aftermarket companies have approached us about these so expect to see them in aluminum in the near future as well. |
Re: Helios RC - Yeti XL Solid Axle Steering Conversion Do you have a picture of one installed? |
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Re: Helios RC - Yeti XL Solid Axle Steering Conversion This product should be sold as a kit not individual parts. Ashamed he has not promoted it in any way other than the initial post. Would love to see some feedback from "the beta testers"... |
Re: Helios RC - Yeti XL Solid Axle Steering Conversion Check out Helios on Facebook, there are some pics of his mega truck with the prototype front axle parts. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3203535&type=3 Nick is a buddy of mine so I know he is a busy guy but he was out at Axialfest with the mega truck and I believe he is going to ECSC this weekend as well. He told me that there are several of these in the hands of people but everyone is keeping their builds under wraps for whatever reason. |
Re: Helios RC - Yeti XL Solid Axle Steering Conversion If he wants to sell this product, it needs advertisements. Busy or not, nothing will sell if no one knows it exists or no one has any idea how it works. |
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Weird new business model i guess. There is nothing like keeping stuff top secret when you are trying to pitch something to sell. If he is your buddy smack him in the head for me. It seems like a lot of people are blowing front diffs like their noses so i would think this would be an opportune time to get people to switch to solid axle. Call me silly. |
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Right now just mounting it on a build I already see some lines could be just by product of the 3D printing process, worst case hairline fractures. I'd have to look at it under a microscope, which I don't have, to be sure but for now I choose to believe that they are just by product of the 3D printing. I'll know more once I get it running in 2 weeks. From a design perspective the servo mount could have been incorporated on the truss and not as a separate piece. I would prefer a trailing arm mount like the original, the design not the position but I'm not a designer or an engineer I'm just throwing ideas out there for version 2???. |
Re: Helios RC - Yeti XL Solid Axle Steering Conversion I've been following this for a bit and waiting for some more info myself. If he wants sell these things he should follow up with his post and maybe provide feedback to the people..... With that being said count me in! |
Re: Helios RC - Yeti XL Solid Axle Steering Conversion Just seeing if Helios was going to follow up on this thread at all? |
Re: Helios RC - Yeti XL Solid Axle Steering Conversion I don't think so, he hasn't logged on in nearly a month. I think it is safe to say you're ordering at your own risk with this one....oh well! |
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Re: Helios RC - Yeti XL Solid Axle Steering Conversion Hey guys, Helios RC is alive and well. AxialFest and ECSC created a ton of action for us and we've been catching up with that. Personally I've been on the road 6 weeks in a row and only home for the weekends. So, it's pretty wild. |
Re: Helios RC - Yeti XL Solid Axle Steering Conversion Here's the other thread with pictures and discussion: http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/axial...helios-rc.html |
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RCC is an awesome source of information, but sometimes the old fashioned forums get a little overlooked :| |
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For everyone else. From a design standpoint you need to take into consideration that commercial rates for design like this are $150-$250/hr. We get this for all of our commercial work. There are countless hours in design and testing of this stuff so when people order the parts from Shapeways we're still not making any money on these. The whole point for creating the conversion kit is to give people ideas for what they can do with the Yeti XL axle. Nobody else has come close to anything like this (even Axial was impressed with the idea). Based on the reactions from AxialFest, I expect that Vanquish and Axial will be releasing something of their own to copy these. Anyway, without ranting too much, thanks for the feedback. We appreciate people being open and will be the same with you guys. ***Now, off to get some running footage of the Mega Truck for all of you guys. "thumbsup" |
Re: Helios RC - Yeti XL Solid Axle Steering Conversion Any pictures of this "conversion" installed on a YETI XL???? |
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