What is the STOUTEST axle?

[hairba11]

I'm thinking of building a tow rig probably 6th scaleish, most likely 2wd, but I want it stout. like pull my azz in a little red wagon stout. Like hook it to my push mower and mow the yard stout.
it will most likely be rolling on prolines with the 23mm hex, or I have some jumbo kongs I may modify to use an actual bolt pattern.

any ideas?

['83 chevy]

either x factor or mad/twin force

[hairba11]

http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bi..._BATTERY_.html

thinking of putting one of these in for motor power (13.2v drill and gearbox)
It should give plenty of weight for tractive power. you can't pull anything if you're sitting there spinning your wheels.

how much weight can those handle?

[JohnRobHolmes]

Mad force/ twin force. RCP has axles available so you dont have to get a kit.

[Rockpiledriver]

Originally Posted by johnrobholmes

Mad force/ twin force. RCP has axles available so you dont have to get a kit.

We don't have the purchase buttom available on the site right now for the Twin Force Axle kit, but we have the axles in stock. If your interested, just PM me and I will get you set up.

[Reflection]

Originally Posted by hairba11

http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bi..._BATTERY_.html

thinking of putting one of these in for motor power (13.2v drill and gearbox)
It should give plenty of weight for tractive power. you can't pull anything if you're sitting there spinning your wheels.

how much weight can those handle?

Once set up correctly,Twin/Mad Force axles will laugh at that kinda power I'm running a 2 horsepower outrunner right now on 10 cells in my comp rig.

At one time,before I started running in comps,my truck was a tad bit porky It was pushing the 20 pound mark and running Kongs and then 8 1/2" tall LST tires.

IMHO,they are the most versatile axle around that can take serious abuse. Dang near any width is doable. If you can find a dogbone that'll fit the drive cups and stubs,you can easily build the axles to whatever width you desire. Between me and my son,we've got 4 Twin Force rigs,two supers and two 2.2 Twins in the makings. One is a BMVii and the other is a tuber soon to be unveiled.

[hairba11]

ok sounds like a good deal. I'm liking the sound of a pushmower turned trailer...
it would make the yard mowing more interesting, (at least a couple of times)

[hairba11]

Dang near any width is doable. If you can find a dogbone that'll fit the drive cups and stubs,you can easily build the axles to whatever width you desire. [/quote]


So it is basically a diff and knuckles and you make your own tubes?
or you can make your own tubes?
plastic or aluminum?
custom width add a truss?
Is the diff off center when stock? like a front solid axle? so you would have to widen it to get it centered?
how wide is stock?
I did see the thread with RCP having them for sale with narrow and wide axles, so what were the lengths on those?


I did a search on twin force, and there were 13 pages, 90% were people saying twin force, and 10% actually had rigs built, but there were not a lot of breakdown shots.

btw, here is what I think will be the bassis for the tow rig. it is the pic off the box, I already have the body packed for the move from IN to St. Louis

[Reflection]

What kinda shots are you looking for?

IMHO,the widest you'd wanna go is two fatory long sides. That puts you at 13" hex to hex. Most wheel and tires set ups will then put you somewhere between 16"-18" wide outside of tire to oputside of tire. You can also run 2 factory short sides. That puts you at 11" hex to hex. This is what I'm running on my 2.2 Twin tuber. Factory,the diff is offset and the width is 12" hex to hex.

The factory axle tubes have a splice in them and they are made of plastic. It's all a matter of manipulating the tubes to the desired length. If you honestly searched,you would have brought up a thread I started explaining how to build custom width axles.

[davway]

if you just want to have some fun mowing the lawn..................do it properly:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~tnpshow/RCLM/intro.htm

[hairba11]

thanks raptorman, I will plead mea culpa on the search, i didn't do an exhaustive every combination of words I could think of and check every page. I got an answer to my question, then was looking for explanation/reasoning behind the unanimous desicion without doing more legwork and I'm sorry.
I know I got so tired of the "what gearing do you think... how fast will this pinion...will I overheat with..." questions I made a gearing chart and stick it in every sig.
now I'm sitting here doing the same thing about axles.
oh well.
actually I need to appologise for giving anyone false hopes, this right npw is more of a:
1) well I have a scale body that's way to big for the WK.
2) I have a dead 13.2v drill, and low range was 350rpm, and hi range was 1200 rpm, and the torque was pretty impressive in both ranges. heck, it even has an adjustable slipper
3) I do have a set of kongs sitting around gathering dust...

and that is about as far as it went.

If I do anything it will have to wait until maybe june or sept whenever i'm moved in to st.L and settled and can get stuff out and play with it again i.e. get to my tools and have a place to use them.

I now know which axle(s) to look for, and I have a pretty reliable source for them.

Thanks
H

[WheelChair]

Sounds like a custom axle to me.

PatWell Solid Rear would hold up!