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08-03-2012, 05:07 AM | #1 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Lake Michigan
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| 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 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:
pics so far............... Last edited by sweli; 08-03-2012 at 05:11 AM. |
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08-03-2012, 05:10 AM | #2 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Lake Michigan
Posts: 1,898
| Re: Black Widow Axles - MiniMill has been busy
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 |
08-03-2012, 11:16 AM | #3 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Grand Rapids, Mi.
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| 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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08-03-2012, 07:16 PM | #4 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Lake Michigan
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| Re: Black Widow Axles - MiniMill has been busy
Thanks Joe!! One of those lllooonnngggggggggggggggg slow builds. |
10-19-2012, 05:06 AM | #5 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Pontoon Beach
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| Re: Black Widow Axles - MiniMill has been busy
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.. 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 |
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