Replacement for TLT Axle Stays?

[maxxa87]

I suppose since it's been a little while since they stopped making the TLT-1 that they have also stopped making these.. What would be a suitable alternative?

[ZoSo]

I'm working on that

[Big Mike]

Make them out of 1/4" aluminum panel edging if you have the tools, etc...

Roughed out...



Cleaned up and mounted on a Hasbro chassis...

[STANG KILLA SS]

i was running out of these too. i use the long ones too (link and shock mount combos)
great tip on the edging mike. ill have to pick up some of that!

[mtdriver]

I've been laser cutting these out of 16 ga steel for a while now. Have a few variations and styles going mostly for myself and friends. Just working on a forming die set to refine the process. Maybe even make them available one day.

[maxxa87]

We need something, these little things are just so useful. I thought for sure a vendor would already have something made up. I found a place that had some over seas, it would cost me $35 for three bags of them though. I find that hard to justify I thought I'd try making my own before I paid that much for them.

[BigSki]

Like these??




RC Channel has them.

[maxxa87]

I went to buy some, but WOW. $24 for shipping! I had placed one of the sets like above and two sets of just the brackets like what was on the TLTs in my cart. Where are these guys located?

[JohnRobHolmes]

Doesn't everybody still have a few NIB tlt's laying around too?

[maxxa87]

Is there any other option out there for something that might work? Something off a different model R/C? I was hoping some other Tamiya rig would use something similar but I haven't found any. I figured maybe the semi's since the axles are nearly the same but no luck finding anything. If not I guess I'll look for a piece of channel like what was posted above and make some to get me by on the HEMTT I'm building.

[JohnRobHolmes]

I remember there being some semi parts bags with them, but don't remember anything useful. Making them from c channel is easy enough with a good hacksaw, vice, and drill.

[BigSki]

Originally Posted by JohnRobHolmes

I remember there being some semi parts bags with them, but don't remember anything useful.

That's how I remembered seeing them on the RC Channel site, it stinks that they don't sell them packaged like that anymore.

[maxxa87]

I downloaded the manual for a knight hauler and I''m going to go through it to find a part number.

[maxxa87]

So it's just called the suspension stay bag, who'd thunk that, lol. I can find plenty overseas and that rcchannel has an ebay store where shipping is a lot cheaper. Anyone ever had anything shipped from britain? Was there any customs charges? It'd take a couple weeks to get them but at $6.50 a bag plus $5.00 shipping and whatever they charge for the extra bags it's not a bad deal if I buy about five bags.