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RidgeBack TMC Build

How to cut styrene.....

A sharp hobby/exacto knife and a steel ruler/ straightedge is all you need cut styrene rod, tubing, or sheet. Very simple and cost effective way to fabricate parts, etc.

Side note....
I think it sucks you are giving up on this chassis/build up. Building a custom crawler isn't an exact science, it takes alot of experimenting to get it right. My Raptor build took alot of trial and error (and lots of link building) to get dialed in. I just tore it apart for a Eclipse build up and the links don't work at all from one to the other. I have some work to do! Hang in there man!
 
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Midlife Crisis said:
A sharp hobby/exacto knife and a steel ruler/ straightedge is all you need cut styrene rod, tubing, or sheet. Very simple and cost effective way to fabricate parts, etc.

Side note....
I think it sucks you are giving up on this chassis/build up. Building a custom crawler isn't an exact science, it takes alot of experimenting to get it right. My Raptor build took alot of trial and error (and lots of link building) to get dialed in. I just tore it apart for a Eclipse build up and the links don't work at all from one to the other. I have some work to do! Hang in there man!
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I recently got a PM from Blade with a link design they have that they use for this chassis. Once those come in, I hope it breaths new life into this chassis. As it currently stands the links are not the biggest issue, they are just one issue. What currently makes me not like this chassis is the shock placement and I can't get around that no matter what fancy link I bend. The way Blade does their upper link is radically different than stock, so it basically reverses my complaint. My complaint being that this design lost the tick-tock pendulum swing shock mount design that the BTMC and Eclipse have. Blade did a design that reverses the role a little, the upper links become the pendulum type focal-point design and the shocks take the other role. I would personally perfer more shock options and keeping stock upper link placement... but I say that only because that's all I know, if something works better I am willing to give it a try.
 
Evilinside said:
So, as I stare at the RidgeBack... I really do like how much crap you can cram into this chassis, it is very rooming.


This lead me to think of how this can be improved... I have some ideas, I cannot do these ideas as I have no way of using or cutting delrin, but I will PM Blade and see if they have any interest in these two ideas.

In the front if the windshield frame also came down in between the nose of the chassis and had some shock mount holes low enough to just clear the inner nose; the sloping angle of the windshield frame would allow for inner (or under) mounting of the upper shocks just like the BTMC. With this design idea, I would probably add width to the piece that goes in between the nose at the top and cut groves into them so it seats down ontop of the nose for added side to side movement stability.

The rear I think I would remove a pair of the white tubes... the four tubes that run parallel in pairs I would remove the two outer most tubes on either side. Then similar to the Blade TMC I would run a piece of delrin from one outer edge of the chassis to the other. Having it cut so that groves slide under the rear nose and installation is from underneath pushing up. Then use shorter screws like how the screws hold the shock mount cross frames on the Blade TMC.

Please forgive my horrific artistic skills and really bad scale proportions....
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Ignore the length measurement, as long as it went to the bottom of the nose is all it would need to do so that shock articulation didn't bind on the inside of the nose.

All in all these two ideas for the front and rear would allow even more configurable shock mounting options. New mounting options and mounting options extremely similar to the Blade TMC



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In practice I obviously have no idea how they would work, but the theory seems sound...
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I am up for suggestions I wll see what I can do to maybe give you more shock placement optoions. But as soon as I get some time I will make the front upper link mount kit available which works great on the ridge back and would be great for other projects.

Blade
 
You and your link issues got me thinking the other day and I started playing with Crawler and Trekker stock links last weekend. I used a Eclipse chassis with a 90T, HR'd tranny, stock esc. I ended up using Trekker lowers for lower links and McRC lowers as uppers. Amazing buttery fluid suspension movement. The Trekker bent uppers are an oddball length and difficult to use as lowers without custom length upper, the McRC lowers are too long for uppers (points the diff skyward bad!), and the McRC uppers are way too short. Sometimes, bent lowers aren't everything, my Eclipse does awesome just from trying something I didn't really even want to use. I might keep it that way. My wheelbase ended up a hair over 4 15/16", I want more, but not bad for snap together suspension.
 
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Midlife Crisis said:
You and your link issues got me thinking the other day and I started playing with Crawler and Trekker stock links last weekend. I used a Eclipse chassis with a 90T, HR'd tranny, stock esc. I ended up using Trekker lowers for lower links and McRC lowers as uppers. Amazing buttery fluid suspension movement. The Trekker bent uppers are an oddball length and difficult to use as lowers without custom length upper, the McRC lowers are too long for uppers (points the diff skyward bad!), and the McRC uppers are way too short. Sometimes, bent lowers aren't everything, my Eclipse does awesome just from trying something I didn't really even want to use. I might keep it that way. My wheelbase ended up a hair over 4 15/16", I want more, but not bad for snap together suspension.
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Nice.

So you're not using any bent links at all?

Have you got a chance to try the Tekin B1r yet? If not, do try it!
 
Midlife Crisis said:
No bent links on this build.....yet anyway. Straight ones are working great. Haven't even looked at upgrading the electronics, I hate soldering stuff!
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I still can't buy the Losi Micro Eclipse, their site is still down... so I've still been experimenting on this RidgeBack.

Throw up some pics?
 
Ill see what I can do about pics, I post from a smartphone. It doesn't like bulletin boards as far as attaching pics. It allowed me to do an avatar and profile pic, but wont post pics in threads:x
 
Midlife Crisis said:
Ill see what I can do about pics, I post from a smartphone. It doesn't like bulletin boards as far as attaching pics. It allowed me to do an avatar and profile pic, but wont post pics in threads:x
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If you use android try taptalk (might even be on Iphone) .or you could upload to photobucket and post the
 
I think this is a dead project for me. The Micro Eclipse chassis came in and it looks like it will be replacing this chassis...
 
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