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04-06-2007, 11:50 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Beaver Falls
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|  Ladder frame build
Has anyone attempted to build their own ladder frames or frames based on the 1:1 frames (jeeps)? I'm attempting to build a TRUE scale vehicle based on the TJ. It'll have control arms, trackbars, and stuff like that. I want to build my own frame using steel or whatever is better to use.
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04-06-2007, 12:01 PM
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| PapaGriz Yo   Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the garage building the wife a crawler
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Some of mine: These are 16ga steel square tubing. The one on Green Bean is made from one piece of square stock, bent to shape, then cut in half to make the 2 sides. I was made by peej410. http://www.rccrawlermedia.com/rcc-gallery/album16 http://www.rccrawlermedia.com/rcc-ga...album35?page=1 |
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04-06-2007, 12:31 PM
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| Web Wheeling   Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Twin Cities
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I used the square tubing method to make my FJ40 frame I am working on. I found the factory service manual drawings of the frame, tossed it into photoshop and enlarged it to the exact size I wanted. I then printed it out onto 2 sheets of paper, and taped them together. I bent my rails, checking them on the paper as I went. They turned out very well, and about as scale as I could get.
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04-06-2007, 03:25 PM
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did you save those files? I have been thinking of a nice scale "ground up" project and that would give me a great place to start. | |
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04-06-2007, 03:28 PM
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04-06-2007, 09:28 PM
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| Web Wheeling Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Twin Cities
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small version, you can enlarge it to the size you need.
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04-06-2007, 09:38 PM
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thanks.... what would be a nice wb for the fj body? 12"? |
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04-06-2007, 09:39 PM
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