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10-19-2006, 01:27 PM
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| Sinking with the ship   Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: El Capitan...sole survivor and sinking fast
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|  Bulu 2 skid plate??
Hey guys, I spent the last few minutes searching and I cant find anything or really any good pics... I want to make a skid plate for the bottom of my bulu 2 chassis as its wide open right now. I saw a pic or 2 with people who had aluminum skid plates but cant find a good pic. I was also thinking it might be better to have one made out of delrin. Do any vendors make a skid for these? Or do you guys have any pics or any suggestions. Thanks -Mike |
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10-19-2006, 01:38 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: The Haunted Forest
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Well, in the past people have cut aluminum or lexan skids and double-taped or siliconed them to the tranny. Another way would be to make little bent-up mounting tabs that wrap up the side of the chassis and attach to the screw holes... ryan |
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10-19-2006, 01:48 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: between heaven and hell.
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send a pic I have a little extra delrin from the old VS chassis', that I may be able to help with. I also have some extra aluminum or sheet metal.
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10-19-2006, 02:03 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: G6'N
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Mike, I will get some pics of mine when I get home, I have a B2 and B3, both with custom skids. They are pretty easy to do, like Ryan said.
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10-19-2006, 02:36 PM
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| Sinking with the ship Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: El Capitan...sole survivor and sinking fast
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Yea Ben, hit me up with that, hopefully is something I can make, otherwise the lexan trick sounds good, I have some .060 thick sheets here I can probably make some out of. Thanks for the imput guys Double J, Ill get you a pics and some measurements too  |
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10-19-2006, 02:53 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: between heaven and hell.
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I can also do the sheet metal thing. Kinda like what I did for the TEST Vertical Smile. If you look close at the second pic you can see how I bent the ends at a 90* with tabs, for the tranny mount.    |
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10-19-2006, 03:15 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: San Jose
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here's one I made  I used some small alum. angle to bolt it to the lower link holes and then bolted the skid  to that
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10-19-2006, 10:08 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: The beautiful Pacific Northwest
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My frame isn't a Bulu, but it's close. I made my skid out of HDPE, the plastic that cutting boards are made of. It's 1/4" thick and is routed out to clear the tranny and side plates. I made it this way so that I could curve the front and back, and also to screw into it from the side plates. It takes a little more work than some of the other skids, but it's very solid, and slides right over everything. Good luck.  |
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10-19-2006, 10:25 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson/Las Vegas, NV
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yeah ive got a bulu2 on the way and i was wondering that too... if anyone made one that looked and performed decent id buy it.
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10-19-2006, 10:42 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: On the yellow dummy dumper
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hackster made him and me a nice one, plus a killer battery mount as well!     |
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10-19-2006, 11:19 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Columbia Gorge
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I've used lexan cut & bent to fit the underside. Worked well. I've also used a piece of aluminum sheet cut to fit, then bend up the forward and rear sections to make that clean look. Some triming might be needed to help clear any driveline issues. Best way to secure the skid was double sided tape. After several good hits the skid will start to make a "clicking" sound. Just tweak it a bit more. RBGerrish has my old B2 skidplate.... thief!  |
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