D3MON
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this has been a pretty brutal build but dare i say it is now complete.
hoping to have it in the mail on monday.
learned how to do alot over the course of the build though, and learned how NOT to do alot.
got the lights wired in. (unfortunately didn't get any pictures of the back, went as standard and a bit of wire maintenance nightmare.
struggled for quite some time getting everything soldered and a strong enough connection. the wires are really tiny.
for the sake of attempting to not put too much draw on one channel and the simplicity for reducing quantity of wires being combined i wired all the bumper wires to one, and each side (total 3) of the lights in the bed one their own channel (very lucky for how many channels for lighting the stock electronics on these have)
also very thankful for the soldering station my wife got me some years back, really made the experience easier.
After getting everything installed and body mount magents finished, it was discovered the shocks were not going to suffice so needed an upgrade.
settled on the hot racing internal spring shocks (have these on my scx24 and like them), for the extra spring and an attempt to look somewhat more scale.
Rails redesign:
next major hurdle was the bed rails.
original design drawings:
firstly as expected, my printer was unable to print the mesh, a bit unfortunate as i had to draw in every line, but the expanded metal pattern to look somewhat correct was 0.10mm.
this did make things get a bit more difficult as it took me some considerable time trying to find a suitable material and glue combination to hold it together.
finally landed on a plastic/thread sliding door mesh and tire glue seemed to bond the best to it with sandwiching the rail and mesh together with parchment paper.
as you can see it looks really messy below, but this provided me proof of concept.
with the redesign of the bed being separate pieces the side-plates were no longer just flat, so i had to re-design them to cap the extra material for reinforcement and the extra material that the screw bites into
you can see the notches are there to "cap" the reinforcement area and screws.
this was easy enough, but this posed another issue, i could no longer just glue the rails in place doing so would not allow the bed to be taken apart if ever needed.
i designed in some little tabs with screw holes that screw straight down into the bed to hold in place. (see red arrows below)
locating the holes was somewhat of an issue so i had to break off the little tab so its mostly just a compression fit between the screw which works okay as it is captured and can't escape outwards. during this ordeal i also learned that my dewalt drill can NOT chuck 1.2mm drill bits, adding complexity and difficulty for hole placement.
held onto the bed like so:
also designed up some toolbox doors to hide the screw hardware connecting the headache rack to the bed.
Final project finished pictures:
the finishing touch of the Coffee cup, this had been the placement of many-a-coffee cup over the years so i had to implement it in the finished product.
hope you enjoyed the build thread!
(some pictures edited for privacy reasons)
hoping to have it in the mail on monday.
learned how to do alot over the course of the build though, and learned how NOT to do alot.
got the lights wired in. (unfortunately didn't get any pictures of the back, went as standard and a bit of wire maintenance nightmare.
struggled for quite some time getting everything soldered and a strong enough connection. the wires are really tiny.
for the sake of attempting to not put too much draw on one channel and the simplicity for reducing quantity of wires being combined i wired all the bumper wires to one, and each side (total 3) of the lights in the bed one their own channel (very lucky for how many channels for lighting the stock electronics on these have)
also very thankful for the soldering station my wife got me some years back, really made the experience easier.
After getting everything installed and body mount magents finished, it was discovered the shocks were not going to suffice so needed an upgrade.
settled on the hot racing internal spring shocks (have these on my scx24 and like them), for the extra spring and an attempt to look somewhat more scale.
Rails redesign:
next major hurdle was the bed rails.
original design drawings:
firstly as expected, my printer was unable to print the mesh, a bit unfortunate as i had to draw in every line, but the expanded metal pattern to look somewhat correct was 0.10mm.
this did make things get a bit more difficult as it took me some considerable time trying to find a suitable material and glue combination to hold it together.
finally landed on a plastic/thread sliding door mesh and tire glue seemed to bond the best to it with sandwiching the rail and mesh together with parchment paper.
as you can see it looks really messy below, but this provided me proof of concept.
with the redesign of the bed being separate pieces the side-plates were no longer just flat, so i had to re-design them to cap the extra material for reinforcement and the extra material that the screw bites into
you can see the notches are there to "cap" the reinforcement area and screws.
this was easy enough, but this posed another issue, i could no longer just glue the rails in place doing so would not allow the bed to be taken apart if ever needed.
i designed in some little tabs with screw holes that screw straight down into the bed to hold in place. (see red arrows below)
locating the holes was somewhat of an issue so i had to break off the little tab so its mostly just a compression fit between the screw which works okay as it is captured and can't escape outwards. during this ordeal i also learned that my dewalt drill can NOT chuck 1.2mm drill bits, adding complexity and difficulty for hole placement.
held onto the bed like so:
also designed up some toolbox doors to hide the screw hardware connecting the headache rack to the bed.
Final project finished pictures:
the finishing touch of the Coffee cup, this had been the placement of many-a-coffee cup over the years so i had to implement it in the finished product.
hope you enjoyed the build thread!
(some pictures edited for privacy reasons)
