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07-30-2006, 09:08 PM
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| Web Wheeling   Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Twin Cities
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|  Turtle
Meet Turtle, my cute little TLT comp crawler. It has all the tlt crawler basics. A 65T lathe motor pushing a locked pede tranny. Stampede drive shafts with steel yokes. Moabs with sliced and diced foam on HPI rims, glued in hexes. Lots of lead in the rims to keep Turtle on its paws. Tekin Rebel 2 esc and a Hitec 645mg servo to toss them wheels around. Now for the not so standard stuff. Behind the axle steering with a very unique servo mount which you will see in some pictures I will post later. And a offset Torsion stick, well thats becoming standard these days. I'll start with some pictures from todays comp, thanks to Kevin and Erik for taking pictures of my trucks today.            I will take some off body shots of it soon. The truck did very well today with a total score of 14 after two very challanging courses. I took a 14 on the first course and a 0 on the second. The first course had one very hard section that caused problems for everyone. But it was possible to make it... Though it should have been a bonus gate. |
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07-30-2006, 09:13 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: BUILDING A CSC-1 in south mississippi
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looks good except the body its kinda ugly
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07-30-2006, 10:09 PM
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Looks good. Hows that TS working out for you? Also, whats the wheel base on that thing?
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07-30-2006, 10:18 PM
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Thanks, The torsion is working great, I wouldn't change a thing on it right now. The wheel base is a little short at 12 inches, could add another half inch. But it seems to work well at 12. Here are some off body shots. The can of never dull is 3.4 inches tall.         |
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07-30-2006, 10:33 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Provo
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sweet im gona be redoing my ghetto stick and i may just have to mount my servo that way i have bta but that looks sweet!  |
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07-31-2006, 08:55 PM
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| RCC Addict  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Minnehopeless
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| What do a turtle and a blonde have in common? Once they're on their backs the're screwed!  When I was taking picks of his rig, I was hoping to capture a picture of it on it's back (like he always seems to catch of mine), but it never happened. This rig is seriously setup nicely. And that first course was a p.i.t.a.! As a witness I can say, very nice truck! But everytime I look at it, all I can think of is the theme song to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles  |
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07-31-2006, 08:59 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Orlando
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Cowabunga dude
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07-31-2006, 09:56 PM
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07-31-2006, 10:41 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Austin Texas
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Looks freakin awesome Mike! I love how you mounted the servo and the backbone. Very nice! |
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07-31-2006, 10:47 PM
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07-31-2006, 10:48 PM
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Sorry I kept Turtle on its wheels at the comp Kevin... Maybe next time I'll give you a good shot under its skirt And thanks Highmark. After I made the new axle plates and mounted up the backbone I started toying with that idea. It didn't take long to figure out a good mount for it. And this thing has a ton of steering now, I love it :-P |
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08-01-2006, 03:08 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: glastonbury
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this thing is awesome! i love the BTA setup
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Linear Mode
