Black Widow Axles - MiniMill has been busy
 

I picked up a set of Black Widow axles from TheSaundo (thx!!) without mounts or truss'.
Then found out it was $70 for the lower link mounts :roll:
Upper link mount doesn't exist.

I thought of brazing up some stainless, but these axles are so beautiful and angular I wanted to stay with the angles versus tubes.
Then thought about milling some delrin, but silver would look better.
Landed on some milling some alum.

My mini mill takes a long time with what carbide and high speed steel bits I have.

So far I have the rear truss and lower link mounts completed.
Lower link/shock mounts slide over axle tubes and pinch clamp in place.
Truss has two screws into beefy pumpkin and one down through the pinch clamp , into the axle tubes (anti rotation).
Truss has slot for third link, with a panhard mount out at the end.

The Black Widow axles allow for:

• moving the short tube/long tube on either side
• turning the ring and pinion around (spin opp. direction)
• clocking or not clocking the axle

pics so far...............

http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/p...tassembled.jpg

http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/p...assembledB.jpg

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My Sherline mill is purely manual and not schooled in millwork, so some dims and angles are off a little.
Angles are eyeball aligned when clamped:shock:

http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/p...rAxleTruss.jpg

http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/p...AxleTrussB.jpg

http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/p...AxleTrussC.jpg

Re: Black Widow Axles - MiniMill has been busy
 

Looks awesome, your milling work looks great also, can't wait to see the final assembly running on the trails

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Thanks Joe!!
One of those lllooonnngggggggggggggggg slow builds.

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Those were a set of axles I sold to him and honestly I wish I would have kept them instead of the set that had factory mounts..believe me the rc4wd mounts have much to be desired especially the top mount..:roll: The other set I kept was a real pain to get mounted up on a 3 link panhard setup and no matter how I set them up the panhard bar mount(upper mount) bottoms out on the ball link. Your ahead of the game machining your own "thumbsup"