flexible drive shafts?

[mike]

i think this might work if you secured the ends to the out puts?

 

[Frkan]

like this?

 

[mike]

ya thats what i got the idea from.

 

[Frkan]

if you found a way to secure them, in theory, they would work. too much tourqe may rip the metal cables from their monts or something though.

 

[mike]

it wouldnt take very much to secure them. just a set srew or somthin.
i whonder how strong they are or if you can get stronger ones.

 

[Frkan]

are they available in an aplicable length? its seems like if you could get one short enogh to be practicle it may be a good idea to try out...

 

[triaxmaster]

if you found a way to secure them, in theory, they would work. too much tourqe may rip the metal cables from their monts or something though.

looks like a dremel shaft those wil take HUGE amounts of torgue, the only problem would be without the outer caseing being held solid it would rotate also if you could make a mount to atache each end of the outer shaft to they would be the idea thing i have seen shafts like those used in motor powered roller skates and to drive scooters and thats whats inside of most weedeater s going from the engine to the trimmer head

 

[JohnRobHolmes]

that site that i posted with driveline parts has those little flex shafts in all different sizes, metric ends too.

 

[mike]

im probly going to try this on my tlt. if i can get the right lengths, and ends.

 

[Rockpiledriver]

im probly going to try this on my tlt. if i can get the right lengths, and ends.

So what are you going to do about a slip yoke? Just leave slack in the cable?
It might work but would be an expensive experiment if it didn't. The smallest one I could find was $84 a piece. :shock:

 

[mike]

ya i saw that. i will probly build it out of a old spedometer cable or something like that.

 

[triaxmaster]

ya i saw that. i will probly build it out of a old spedometer cable or something like that.

Speedo cable will snap fast have the scar to prove it
tried to use it as a makeshife dremel shaft

 

[mike]

Speedo cable will snap fast have the scar to prove it
tried to use it as a makeshife dremel shaft

hmmm, i thought it would be stronger than that.
oh well i geuse ill start saveing. LOL

 

[triaxmaster]

well speedo cable might work for driveshafts think the 30000 rpms of the dremel might have helped it brake

 

[WRMorrison]

Sorry for jumping in here late, but, what about the 1/4" drive spinner handles w/flexible shafts? If they're used to remove/install fasteners, I would think that they could handle the torque. Just another idea.

 

[Reflection]

It was asked earlier but what are ya'll gonna do about a slip joint. Unless your links are set up exactly perfect so the shaft does not get longer or shorter these ideas won't work,I wouldn't think anyway. Seems that without a slip it would bind up somewhere.

 

[mike]

It was asked earlier but what are ya'll gonna do about a slip joint. Unless your links are set up exactly perfect so the shaft does not get longer or shorter these ideas won't work,I wouldn't think anyway. Seems that without a slip it would bind up somewhere.

it wont have a slip it will have some extra slack, so it will work. hopfully

 

[Reflection]

it wont have a slip it will have some extra slack, so it will work. hopfully

Well,good luck to ya,hope it works for ya.

My steel shafts were to easy to build to fool with something like that. They've got 2" of slip,but only use about 1/2" at most. 1/4" wobblies,1/4"allen wrenches,1/4"deepwells and some 1/2" tube and your set. Bomb proof shafts.

 

[mike]

Well,good luck to ya,hope it works for ya.

My steel shafts were to easy to build to fool with something like that. They've got 2" of slip,but only use about 1/2" at most. 1/4" wobblies,1/4"allen wrenches,1/4"deepwells and some 1/2" tube and your set. Bomb proof shafts.

thanks
and if you were anything like me you wouldn't be building what everyone else builds. i try to come up with new ideas to improve our rc crawling sport.

 

[Reflection]

if you were anything like me you wouldn't be building what everyone else builds. i try to come up with new ideas to improve our rc crawling sport.

I'm not building what everyone else is building. Others have had the idea but scrapped it. I'm probly not the only one but most you see are running Revo's or sliders. I may be wrong but I don't seem to recall seeing any others running shafts like mine.

Good luck in your adventures