The Nerd's new rig
 

*Most of the following posts are old but just for context's sake i'll post them anyway*

I'm still in the collecting stage, but slowly but suring I'm getting it together. Full specs are

SDS Customz Al Fighter Axles
Holmes Hobbies 454 Puller 16t specials, with slotted arms
Futaba 4pl
Mamba micro pro's (this may change)
Hitec 7950 (this may also change)
CC bec
Berg small 3rds, 4th gears, large 3rds, large 2nds, small 2nds and gear pins
10x15 bearings x 6
5x10 bearings x 8
6x11 bearings x 2
Vanquish zero ackerman knuckles
Axial knuckle bushes
18 awg silver wire
Proto CrawlerX bodiless chassis
Revo and Jato rod ends
All fasteners express aluminum bolts
Lunsford Ti links (I might experiment with making my owe ti or 7075 links also)
SCX10 shocks
Mini T springs
Axial hexs
VP V3 SLWs
Eritex Charlottes
Boss Claws
Rovers
Nova's foams all round


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Kieren

About all I've got to show for myself at this stage, however parts will start rolling in very soon :yes:

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/w...1/P1050139.jpg

Kieren

The pile ever increasing, got the first order in today, with hopefully more following next week. :yipi:

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/w...1/P1050146.jpg

Kieren

Got some more parts the other day.

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/w...1/P1050174.jpg

Also got the very first custom made part for this rig done. A special spring retainer so you can use mini T fronts on scx10 shocks. The rod end cup is just off a set of HPI firestorm shocks that has had the outer lip sanded of. Before and after.

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/w...1/P1050176.jpg

Kieren

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/pictu...ictureid=17915

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Kieren

I discovered a rather strange issue with my one of my scx10 shocks yesterday. The shaft had been only partly ti nitrided (the gold stuff) and is rather hard to move in and out. I was going to email axial, but in no uncertain terms on their website it states they won't deal with international warranty. So it looks like I'll be out of pocket for a new set of shafts ($13 US). I'll put up a picture later.

Kieren

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/w...1/P1050188.jpg

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/w...1/P1050189.jpg

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/w...1/P1050192.jpg

The foams are about 1 and a 1/4 rover foams and a 1.9 CI foam all stuffed in. Nothing fancy and I just put it in there really cause I don't have anything else at the moment. I will probably pick up some new CI foams down the track to try out, but we'll see how this go. Sorry I didn't get any weights as it seems the scales have gone walkabout :no: Oh and finally BCs don't make for easy mounting on these wheels, it took me about 10 tries before I perfected the method :lol:

Kieren

Motors arrived today, wow they are tiny.

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/w...1/P1050198.jpg

Kieren

Little peak of what's to come ;-)

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/w...rd101/Hubs.jpg

Kieren

Found my new servo, fast, powerful and blue :lol: Futaba HV

Kieren

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/w...htassembly.jpg

Made a few amendments to my original knuckle design, and came up with this. Major advantage of extra wide hubs is I can have a fairly similar amount of weight to my old design, except all below the axle centre. As pictured, according to inventor, is about 190g. So up to 380g all up.

Kieren

*From this point onwards posts are current*

Die arrived today. Results on Ti machining test later today.

Kieren

Forward progress.
 

Forward progress is good. It appears that you are moving right along. From your list one can only assume that you are building a custom crawler? The wheels look nice. Not sure of exactly what your going for with this project, but it looks interesting enough. Thanks for sharing with us.

Things will be a bit slower now though as I'm heading away for a couple weeks, but hopefully by then I will have my axles though to get things really moving! In my opinion no crawler should be off the shelf, so yes very much custom. My aim is to build the finest crawler money can buy, but still build as much of it with my own two hands. No trouble, I figured even though it isn't very RCM style speed wise, a crawler is the best way of showing my skills custom parts wise. Plus who doesn't like cars built of exotic parts:lol:

Thanks
Kieren

Here's a couple pictures of the test run. Machines quite nicely with a bit off cutting oil. Also threading isn't so bad once you get it started. Use decent cutting oil here also. I used rocol cutting oil throughout it's brown, oily and smells like maple syrup :lol: I ended up turning the rod down from 3/16" to 3.6mm for easy tapping. Still has plenty of bite in the revo end though. Next to the Ti is standard M4 all-thread for reference.

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/w...1/P1050224.jpg

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/w...1/P1050222.jpg

Kieren