Radioactive X-Bug project

[joostin420]

X-Maxx. Lots of parts gathered already. Designed and fabricated battery trays over the weekend.

 

[Mongoose]

Man Joostin, you sure are building a lot of awesome stuff with high end stiff. Can I ask what you do for a living? I think I'm doing something wrong lol

 

[joostin420]

Do a lot of “buy, sell, trade.” I also have no life and a home-body

 

[joostin420]

Deconstruction has begun custom cf battery plate test fit, steering Servo set up. Getting read to tear-down all and dye grey plastic parts and chassis black. Still have to test deandozing something before the green atomic aluminum full kit.

 

[joostin420]

Caustic soda (lye) method to deanodize aluminum parts works awesome! It is fast and only takes a couple of minutes.

 

[joostin420]

Dyed grey plastic black, rebuilt rear diff with intent aluminum cup and 100k oil, mounted the cf battery trays.

 

[WoodiE]

This thing is going to be awesome. Can't wait to see the finished product @joostin420!

 

[joostin420]

Getting there

 

[joostin420]

Original 30t 8mm bore pinion was too thick for mounting and would mesh beyond spur even pressing up against the motor mount.

Poseidon pointed me to sagacustomrc and I picked up 31t and 32t 8mm bore pinions (black).

 

[joostin420]

Didn’t care for the motor mount so changed to a Poseidon mount. Threadlock on motor screws - had a feeling there was none... designing and ready to cut carbon fiber electronics plate.

 

[joostin420]

Progress.

 

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[WoodiE]

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Very clean looking. Great job!

 

[Iamtheoutcast]

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Looking good can't wait ti see her all finished I'm actually deanodizing all the red parts on my outcast and gonna polish them up. I got a question do u think you can do the same to the can on the motor I know I can't submerge it in sodium hydroxide but if I concentrate the NaOH do u think it would work I got the leopard racing 58113 and think a polished can would look awesome with all the voltage hobbies parts and the polished stock arrma parts.

 

[joostin420]

I don’t think I would try the deanodizing of the motor can myself until you do it. i am interested in seeing your results of yours for sure

Went with the xt90 connection again for the cap pack like my Kraton.

 

[Slick2500]

I don’t think I would try the deanodizing of the motor can myself until you do it. i am interested in seeing your results of yours for sure

Went with the xt90 connection again for the cap pack like my Kraton.
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How well does that work like that, I was always told that the caps should be as close to the esc as possible when wiring up cap packs.

 

[joostin420]

 

[joostin420]

Argh, the body work comes next - it is by far the most dreaded part of a project I think

Have to try and come up with a body mounting solution similar to manny... I don’t like the pvc rod method he used even though it is functional...

 

[joostin420]

 

[joostin420]

This project definitely progressed much faster than my silver tomahawk Kraton.

There was not as much design and customization for the x-maxx due to the chassis/shock towers/bulkheads integration...