Where do I go from here?

[Grip Roll]

Ah...center shafts sorry,thought you were asking about axle cvd's...my bad

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[Grip Roll]

Blue locktite and heatshrink as mentioned or some nicer shafts

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[Rattzo1]

So try try again!!! Thankfully the pin and retainer are the same in the front axle shafts, so at least I’ll be able to try and maybe run a pack or two through it.That setup is so stupid!, they put a 1 mm dia. pin on the dog bone side and a .05 or whatever stupid azz small size they used in the other. It makes no sense! I’m going to do something with that for sure.

[Grip Roll]

Im guessing your gonna want better center shafts real soon anyhow.

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[Rattzo1]

Never really like these. Probably going to try and find a axial set that will fit

[Rattzo1]

Got some different wheels and tires some VP DH II ‘s up front with 475 hubs ands set of VP SLW V4. Right now I have all the slugs in the front witch is way too much but I still haven’t got to crawl much with it, it’s been an extremely rainy spring so far . So I’ve just been working on it. Then in the back I put the stick on wheel weights inside got 2.5 oz in them.then wrapped them in Pitbull Rock Beasts 2.2 x 5 5/8.comp compound with the OTtSix foams I had. also stopped at the local hobby shop and got a couple new batteries , Venom 30c 3s 1300mah ,and re done all the wiring. And I replaced the steel steering rod with a Vp Ti 150mm x3/16 that’s about all I guess.

[Tib]

did you put a spacer or weight under the battery?

[Rattzo1]

Originally Posted by Tib

did you put a spacer or weight under the battery?

It’s actually a piece of closed cell foam that the shocks were packed in. I was going to put a piece of double sided tape on to hold it in place but I really didn’t like the idea of all the other crap that would stick to it. As you can see in the pic the bottom come off the packing , it’s about 3mm thick, then I have double sided tape that is real thin basically just the sticky stuff on both sides and stuck it on.

[Rattzo1]

I made a little aluminum hold Down for the servo wire. I didn’t like how it looked way out and rubbed on the shock . Just a piece of thin ga. house hold flashing cut to length and used my body hole reamer to make the holes. I took the screws out pulled the o- ring off put the hold down on then reinstalled the o- rings to keep it as water tight as possible.

[Rattzo1]

Im going to de anodize the bead lock later on today then I’m going to try and anodize them myself . I just need to get an adjustable power supply and we will see lol. Looks easy on the web .

[Tib]

Originally Posted by Rattzo1

I made a little aluminum hold Down for the servo wire. I didn’t like how it looked way out and rubbed on the shock . Just a piece of thin ga. house hold flashing cut to length and used my body hole reamer to make the holes. I took the screws out pulled the o- ring off put the hold down on then reinstalled the o- rings to keep it as water tight as possible.

descent idea

[Rattzo1]

Well I’ve gotten this far. Rings are stripped to bare aluminum. Anodizing tank made. I’m using titanium rod for the anode side . That’s the rode they are hanging from both the horizontal and vertical. I’ll use it for the cathode as well. Hope I have time to do them tomorrow idk we will see.

[Rattzo1]

First runs a flop. Need better anode wire. I tried titanium it anodized b4 the aluminum and killed the currant. Try again tomorrow

[tjsnyder]

At least you have some cool anodized titanium to make links out of


Live it love it crawl it

[Rattzo1]

Originally Posted by tjsnyder

At least you have some cool anodized titanium to make links out of


Live it love it crawl it

It did make it a cool looking slate purple

[Rattzo1]

Yay the second time was a success!

[Tib]

Looks great


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[Rattzo1]

Thank you tib. I’ve always wanted to try doing it so i figured what the hay. They aren’t perfect but they will match now. I bought an adjustable power head for doing anodizing so I may change all the colors make everything match side plates and all

[Rattzo1]

Hey guys long time no see. I ran this rig all summer. I let my buddy control it and he thrashed on it, and I have to say it held up very well! Other than the driveshaft pins coming out the first time I had no other big problems. Now it’s tear down time to see if there is any internal damage. The only thing I can notice is there’s a lot of slop in the front axel. Well I can rotate the tire about a quarter turn or so . So I’m hoping Codyboy Designs is still Peckering around in his shop.. so it looks like I’ll be posting some stuff once I get it ripped down. I want to anodize all the aluminum to what I want and not to how it comes lol . I’m not sure what colors yet but no biggie yet lol. Ok I’ll ttyl have fun guys that’s what it’s all about !

[Rattzo1]

Well I’ve been lookin for a while now for the right center driveshafts. There is a bunch of them out there but most of them are really big in diameter. So I just did a generic search on eBay 1/10 rock crawler and the first item was the perfect shafts they are the Hot Racing Axial AX10/SCX10 109-135mm. I also purchased a set of CCR lockouts for the back axle and have been rounding stuff up to get everything I need to get my anodizing stuff done . Looks like I have to pay the site to put up some pics. I’ll get that done this week.