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08-15-2006, 08:21 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Middle of no where
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i am making a clod tuber i have the plans all drawn out but i have some questions. First of all i can't find 1/4" steel tubing second of all the specs are going to be 16.5" long 5" wide 5.4" tall but is that wide enough for clod axels third of all i have a great little duratrax sprint esc the BEC is 5.0 V /1.0A is that enough for 4ws and finally (i know this is super long but i'm new) i added it all up and i came out to 12 feet of tube or did i screw it up?
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08-15-2006, 08:43 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Bruiser Heaven!!!!
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that sounds good for a start and for the speed control i would use a tekin rebel 2. rich |
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08-15-2006, 08:59 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Grand Forks, ND
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12 ft will most likely not be enough. i have never personally built a tuber. but i know that rckjeep once used 80 some feet on a tlt tuber.
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08-15-2006, 09:01 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Green River Kentucky
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I use atleast 2 10 foot sticks on a small truck it goes alot faster than what you think and just starting out you will make alot of mistakes.
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08-16-2006, 06:35 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Deland
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the least amount of tube I've used was 15', the most was around 30'.
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08-16-2006, 07:47 AM
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| Sinking with the ship   Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: El Capitan...sole survivor and sinking fast
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As for tubing I have used 12 feet just to doing an exo cage, it depends how techinical you get, I would think even if you keep it basic its going to me more but hey you never know. Mike | |
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08-18-2006, 08:23 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Gervais
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Do you have a cad of it to let us guess?
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08-18-2006, 09:39 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Feb 2004
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80 feet? WTF Anyway, I'm guessing around 15 feet would be good. And as for not being able to find 1/4 inch steel tubing you should try checking at just about any automotive store for some 1/4 inch brake line tubing. It is cheap, strong and brazes up real nice. |
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08-18-2006, 10:03 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: USA
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I used just under 10ft on my last tuber. I bought 44ft of 3/16in solid rod and built 3 tubers from that.
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08-19-2006, 10:46 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Mobile AL
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Go to MCMaster.com for the tubing... Later, Jake |
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08-20-2006, 08:30 AM
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