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11-28-2007, 08:05 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: México city
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|  Balsa wood Scale Hi-Lift
1.5 dollars of balsa wood, paint, CA glue, sand paper and two hours of work, PLEASE tell me what you think, this is my first attempt to make a scale thing ever...    Last edited by TwistedXT; 11-29-2007 at 09:20 AM. Reason: re-aligned pics |
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11-28-2007, 08:27 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Rectalville
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Sweeeeet! nice job! I would have never guessed it was Balsa if you didn't tell us!
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11-28-2007, 08:28 PM
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| Adilynsdad too!   Join Date: May 2004 Location: G ville
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looks sweet! You must have some mad carving skills and a sharp butter knife... |
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11-28-2007, 09:11 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: in the middle of the pacific ocean
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Thats a good idea, you can't even tell thats balsa wood. Great job, looks real good  |
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11-28-2007, 09:15 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Orlando
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11-28-2007, 09:23 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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Damn, you did a great job! I would be proud to run it on my rig! |
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11-28-2007, 09:46 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Flagstaff, AZ!
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good thinking! that opens a whole new door in my mind of things to do:-P
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11-28-2007, 10:33 PM
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| Coral Crawler   Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Myrtle Beach
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Great idea and good looking work. I have used balsa for quite a few things in the past other than rc planes and when saturated with CA becomes pretty durable and when sanded and painted you can't tell it's wood, but never thought of crafting a jack from it. Yep, I'll be making a trip to the hobby store in the morning. Thanks for the idea and like samson_simpson, my mind is running wild with ideas now, should'nt be hard to carve/sand out a fire extinguisher, jerry can, etc....., LOL. See what I mean, will have a whole work list by morning.
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11-29-2007, 12:04 AM
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| ~THE SCALE SHOP~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: KILLEEN TX
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very cool! but ya coulda just got a TSS steel version! buy then again doing it yourself>buying it  |
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11-29-2007, 06:21 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: weather sucks ,mn
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sweet but I have 1 concern,,,,,,durability but at $1.50 hmmm who cares
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11-29-2007, 07:20 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: México city
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Like beachbum said, when the balsa wood is saturated with CA becomes hard like plastic, and even can be very hard to sand, so the durability is like if you have an object made from a hard, solid plastic, but very light weight... this was my first attempt to do something in balsa wood , but for the next time i will first PRIME the balsa wood, sand it and then paint it, because the wood kind of absorb the paint, and then, like i did, you will have to paint it at least 4 times... thanks again and sorry about my english... Alan Piña |
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11-29-2007, 07:27 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: México city
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Hello STANG KILLA SS. Sorry but i didnt understand your post... What is a TSS? and the ...buy then again? what to buy? Thanks. | |
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11-29-2007, 09:11 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: In da 801 "AKA Tiny"
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"very cool! but ya coulda just got a The scale shop steel version! but then again doing it yourself>buying it" | |
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11-29-2007, 10:50 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Flagstaff, AZ!
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something like this would be great in the tech page if they ever update it
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11-29-2007, 08:50 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: USA
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Pictures are gone?
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11-30-2007, 09:17 AM
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| ~THE SCALE SHOP~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: KILLEEN TX
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yeah sorry about that, i was saying i sell a steel version  r2j i can still see the pics.... | |
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11-30-2007, 08:33 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: México city
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Hi, STANG KILLA SS ...or maybe this from http://scaleoffroad.de is the real thing! and its more realistic and almost the same price than the one you have...   Look at the detail... is awesome!!! Thats what i call REAL SCALE... dont you agree?  Thanks.
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12-01-2007, 08:38 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Germany
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12-01-2007, 09:00 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: I live in my own world,they know me here
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I was thinking of making mad stuff out of balsa,this proves it can be done I had a hobby store in my city go out of business and I waited til they were closed then talked to the construction guys and the let me clean out the balsa and basswood in the store for 4 cups of coffee.I think I have enough wood to build a scale house and garage for my crawlers.
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12-01-2007, 09:43 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: México city
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more pics of the balsa wood hi lift     Thanks... |
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