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12-09-2008, 05:41 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Bernardino Mountains
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|  Copycat rig
Ok it is not a copy cat rig but you will see that there are aspects of many of the fine designers. I have seen many designs that I like & decided to put all of my favorite parts into one chassis. This started because I wanted something fresh to put the R2D that I won from RC4WD into. I have everything else coming from 3 of our great vendors & should be here in the next few days. I still have body panels to figure out to make it legal & a new skid to machine out of delrin. Once the axles get here I will get it all on the chassis jig & get the links setup. I have a few strange ideas for the links but we will see where the rest of it goes. Anyway here is what I have come up with after getting the new milling table setup. Specs: weight= 168 grams length= 9.75" height= 3.8" width= 3.25"       |
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12-09-2008, 05:50 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Holland,OH
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Very Nice! ......I love all the bends, not just flat TVPs.
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12-09-2008, 05:52 PM
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| owner, Holmes Hobbies LLC   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Volt up! Gear down!
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I agree, those bends are slick. Do you have a brake?
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12-09-2008, 05:56 PM
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| Picky Fab'r/Acetal Junky   Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Arizona Desert/AJ
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IMO, you're really limiting yourself on shock mounting options......  Looks good, agreed...the bends add alot to it.  |
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12-09-2008, 06:12 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Newnan
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yeah, definately looks great! cant wait to see it perform!
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12-09-2008, 07:05 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Monroe, NC
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Nice to see a chassis made of bent panel not flat. looks good. Justin |
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12-09-2008, 07:46 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2008 Location: Mansfield, PA
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Looks really nice!!! Love the bends in the chassis plates  Can't wait to see the rest of the build |
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12-10-2008, 05:29 AM
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| WWW.THEROXBOX.COM Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The Legend of Stone Pillow
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That is one sick looking chassis .... nice job |
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12-10-2008, 07:23 AM
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| TN State Champ 11,12,13  Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: KTM Talk.com
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Very nice work. Can't wait to see the finished project.
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12-10-2008, 07:33 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: May 2006 Location: HONDURAS...ROCK HEAVEN
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Looks very nice, i also agree on the look of the bends, something different |
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12-10-2008, 10:44 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: ...in your meter box...
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Awesome concept. The curves really help it look like a piece of art. I am interested to see where you will mount your lower links.
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12-11-2008, 12:07 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Bernardino Mountains
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Thanks a whole lot guys! I am not sure what I like better, building them or driving them. I have added an X Y table to my drill press at home which helps some but the shaft & chuck have too much play to really do precise work so most of this is still by hand. I have a brake now of sorts, since I needed to do repeatable bends for this chassis I made some custom smooth jaws for my large bench vise with one of them being hinged with a stop. I had to get some work done today but was still able to get the lower links made. Now mind you they were perfect before I decided to mill a pattern in them & I think that I over did it. But they are to the dimensions that I want so I can redo them if they bug me too much later. I just couldn't spend the $60-$70 that the Axial machined links sell for when I am able to do them. Here are the pics:    |
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12-11-2008, 12:08 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Bernardino Mountains
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That is not final link placement, I still need to do the skid plate & they will probably end up inside the chassis & more triangulated.
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12-11-2008, 12:35 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: West Seneca
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Everything looks great the only thing i would add would be a couple more holes for upper link mounting. Like a hole in front and a couple below just to have a little more tuneablilty(made that word up). |
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12-11-2008, 12:39 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Bernardino Mountains
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Hehe ssshh I may not be running an upper link  but I am not to that stage yet so we will see. Yes I do have the placement measured out in case I do run uppers but did not drill them yet on the off chance my other idea works.
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12-11-2008, 10:32 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Bernardino Mountains
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Here it is at a 2.4" ride height & 12.4" wheelbase, it will probably sit a bit higher but like this it sits .250" higher than the spur gear of my current rig.   |
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12-11-2008, 10:59 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: BFE, NV
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No uppers eh? Ya gonna "Y" the lowers at the axle and run a track bar? Sweet machining, rig looks really good What axles, or did I miss that part?
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12-11-2008, 11:23 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Bernardino Mountains
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When I started I had thought of Poulson axles but I now have some ax10 axles with all of the good stuff coming including the high steer knuckles. | |
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12-11-2008, 01:25 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Bernardino Mountains
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Ok the skid was not that hard so I have it done except I may dye it darker.     Now I sit & wait for the parts to show up because I don't want to tear apart my other rig to mock this one up. Damn I hate waiting! |
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12-11-2008, 01:35 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Marysville
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That is just SICK
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