UTB18B Driveshafts

[lagerratrobe]

Help! I thought I was pretty mechanically minded until I had the bright Idea to use UTB18 driveshafts on my scratch build. I had no idea that they would come in 2 separate parts kits, in dozens of pieces, and I have no clue how they go together. Would someone here be able to take a picture of an assembled shaft for me so I can see how all the parts relate to each other?

As an aside, I think I just realized that one Axial coupler set only works for one shaft. I'm still going to try and put one of them together, but I'm eyeing the 3d printer...

 

[lagerratrobe]

...actually, I think I got it. Question now is, do I really want to use this?

Guess I'll go look at some more pics of crawlers to see what people have done.

 

[lagerratrobe]

And the answer is probably, "yes". Given that the length seems to work, at least for one of them.