02-22-2005, 06:21 PM | #1 |
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| flexible drive shafts?
i think this might work if you secured the ends to the out puts?
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02-22-2005, 06:42 PM | #2 |
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like this? |
02-22-2005, 06:42 PM | #3 |
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ya thats what i got the idea from.
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02-22-2005, 06:45 PM | #4 |
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if you found a way to secure them, in theory, they would work. too much tourqe may rip the metal cables from their monts or something though.
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02-22-2005, 06:50 PM | #5 |
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it wouldnt take very much to secure them. just a set srew or somthin. i whonder how strong they are or if you can get stronger ones. |
02-22-2005, 06:53 PM | #6 |
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are they available in an aplicable length? its seems like if you could get one short enogh to be practicle it may be a good idea to try out...
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02-22-2005, 07:29 PM | #7 | |
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02-22-2005, 09:22 PM | #8 |
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that site that i posted with driveline parts has those little flex shafts in all different sizes, metric ends too.
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02-22-2005, 09:25 PM | #9 |
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im probly going to try this on my tlt. if i can get the right lengths, and ends.
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02-23-2005, 11:12 AM | #10 | |
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It might work but would be an expensive experiment if it didn't. The smallest one I could find was $84 a piece. | |
02-23-2005, 11:21 AM | #11 |
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ya i saw that. i will probly build it out of a old spedometer cable or something like that.
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02-23-2005, 05:14 PM | #12 | |
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tried to use it as a makeshife dremel shaft | |
02-23-2005, 06:55 PM | #13 | |
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oh well i geuse ill start saveing. LOL | |
02-23-2005, 08:03 PM | #14 |
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well speedo cable might work for driveshafts think the 30000 rpms of the dremel might have helped it brake
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02-23-2005, 09:37 PM | #15 |
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| Sorry for jumping in here late, but, what about the 1/4" drive spinner handles w/flexible shafts? If they're used to remove/install fasteners, I would think that they could handle the torque. Just another idea. |
02-24-2005, 08:13 PM | #16 |
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It was asked earlier but what are ya'll gonna do about a slip joint. Unless your links are set up exactly perfect so the shaft does not get longer or shorter these ideas won't work,I wouldn't think anyway. Seems that without a slip it would bind up somewhere.
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02-24-2005, 08:15 PM | #17 | |
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02-24-2005, 08:23 PM | #18 | |
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Well,good luck to ya,hope it works for ya. My steel shafts were to easy to build to fool with something like that. They've got 2" of slip,but only use about 1/2" at most. 1/4" wobblies,1/4"allen wrenches,1/4"deepwells and some 1/2" tube and your set. Bomb proof shafts. | |
02-24-2005, 08:33 PM | #19 | |
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and if you were anything like me you wouldn't be building what everyone else builds. i try to come up with new ideas to improve our rc crawling sport. | |
02-24-2005, 08:56 PM | #20 | |
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