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02-25-2008, 06:39 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
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|  WK Diamond int he Rough:Home Brew Heres first pics of my Wheely King build(1st Crawler Build). Rotated transmission 90deg for low COG. Aluminum Diamond plate chassis.  |
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02-25-2008, 06:40 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
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| Heres more progression  |
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02-25-2008, 06:40 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
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| Here it is with m4 threaded rod lower links installed and upper link ends installed. Once I have it all put together Im going to bend and hack it up until I see what I want. The front end is going to be bent inward for clearance. All the screws washers and nuts are stainless steel for strength.   |
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02-25-2008, 06:41 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
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| Here it is with the links installed(going to cut off the leftover rod ends). the outside front will be bent to conform to the upper linkage plate where battery and servo will be placed.   |
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02-25-2008, 06:42 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
Posts: 37
| More pictures with front conformed to linkplate. Wheelbase going to be a bit shorter when I put brake line over the threaded rod and bend it Reply With Quote    |
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02-25-2008, 09:45 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: somewhere
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| Looks really heavy so far. But, I like the diamond plate chassis. |
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02-26-2008, 01:03 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
Posts: 37
| Heres the latest: Covered links with brake line Bent the lower links in the front Attached shocks Made These extended drive shafts check out the COG on it so far. I also ordered an outrunner Brushless motor for it and a 12kg metal gear servo  Put a stainless bolt and some nuts through yoke so when I poured the epoxy in shaft it would engulf itt  epoxied the other end in place and used pipe cutter to make brass tapered tight around plastic      |
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03-02-2008, 09:07 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
Posts: 37
| Converted a parma trash truck that I painted a while ago.   |
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03-02-2008, 12:12 PM
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| I joined the Band! Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lancaster
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| What's the wheelbase on this thing? |
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03-03-2008, 07:28 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
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03-03-2008, 08:30 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Rectalville
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| Well, I will definitely give you an "A" for originality, and coming up with some fresh Ideas! How some of them are going to work, however, I dunno. I think that you are going to be finding yourself constantly re-tightening the nuts on your upper link/plate thing. (not sure what to call it?) I would at least take them back apart and put a nut on BOTH SIDES where the rods go through the flanges. That should help. Also, the way you have this thing set-up (and knowing the stock WK shocks quite well) it's going to have a TON of flex, way more than you actually need. You could put a shorter set of shocks on it (like T-maxx shocks) and it would make the COG lower and limit the flex to a useful range. It would drop the ride height some, and you would lose a little center clearance, but that wouldn't even come close to being an issue. But overall, not a bad looking first effort. It's definitely different. Even if you never change a thing I still dig it. Two thumbs up.  |
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03-03-2008, 08:37 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: In my shop
Posts: 570
| Looks pretty cool if you are going for a scale look. If you are going for competition your weight will really hinder you. Ideally you should be able to lay your truck on it side and it should sit on you wheels only. If it rools onto its lid your center of gravity is too high. Dig the treadplate though |
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03-03-2008, 09:55 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
Posts: 37
| Thanks guys, The advice and compliments great and very much appreciated. When I get all the electronics in and give it a test run I will hack as much aluminum away as I can. I also plan on replacing some nuts with nylocks and the others will be loc-tited. |
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03-11-2008, 01:58 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
Posts: 37
| My motor and servo came today 850kv Brushless Outrunner and 12kg/cm metal gear servo   |
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03-12-2008, 11:02 AM
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| AWESOME! TOTALLY AWESOME!   Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: gervais
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| thats a really sweet ride! two for originality, keep up the updates |
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03-13-2008, 01:35 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
Posts: 37
| Its alive and a very very torquey. Its maximum speed with this setup is 3.7 km/h if I were to program the mamba to full but I have it set a normal so its real slow. Has 2x1300mAh lipo in parallel so 7.4v at 2600mAh. Mamba esc is on right hand side and rx is on left side      |
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03-13-2008, 05:30 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
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03-13-2008, 07:03 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Southern IL
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| Great work! Very cool looking body, and it seems to crawl well. -Ari |
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03-14-2008, 04:45 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
Posts: 37
| Thanks, I got the diffs locked up so now the crazy glue aint cutting it .Now I have to make beadlocks |
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03-20-2008, 10:56 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
Posts: 37
| Put chassis on a diet! Removed 100g from the chassis with the bandsaw. Chassis now weighs 150g. Before After  |
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