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08-20-2009, 05:25 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: state of confusion
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|  home made links
has any one ever made there own links insted of buying them and if so how did they work? Also is it true that the longer the links the lower the rig will sit?  |
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08-20-2009, 06:32 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cottontown
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I made both the uppers and lowers... I used 4-40ss allthread for both, and covered the bottoms with some aluminum tubing... really easy, works well and is plenty strong. I have since switched to a new chassis and new suspension and went all delrin tho |
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08-20-2009, 07:32 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Frisco, Texas
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well, im 13 so im not that good at welding, and i got no money, and while i was building my super class, i got some 1 cm thick metal stick and cut it into equal pieces and got some washers and welded them to each side of the sticks and there u go! but their not that good lol, ill invest in some real ones later ahah!  |
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08-20-2009, 08:30 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2009 Location: 354
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I used 6-32 allthread, machined aluminum sleeve for it for strength and i left enough thread on both side for the pivot ball to thread into, and I used Axial pivot housing and ball
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08-20-2009, 09:16 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Ontherocks
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you could cover the links with ball point pen casings and they slide pretty good
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08-21-2009, 12:20 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: On the Snap on truck
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when I got my Mixxer chassis I made all my own links, used 3/16 turned down to 3mm for the lowers, drag and servo links, used 3mm for the upper links and just used a hss die.
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