Roog
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So that's about 270mm, a little bigger than typical 1/10 touring car body scale. Just wondering what type of body might be out there for that. Might be something to get made custom.
I think the big issue is that typical rc cars have wide chassis to accommodate all of the gear, limiting the car body’s to wide bodied cars with a smattering of modern f1 / Indianapolis like cars, also o don’t suppose there is much call for vintage race cars, sadly.
Back at the shed, I have been making the axles. After facing off the ends and centre drilling so that I can support the end from the tailstock using a live centre, a pointy metal cone running in ball races. Then machine a section down from 10mm to 8mm on which to mount the wheels.
Next I need to cut a M8 male thread on the ends of each of the axles, this gives me an opportunity to use my sliding tailstock die holder, snappy title huh? The purpose is to hold the threading die square to the work piece allowing pressure to be applied to the die while the work is turned to cut the thread saving lots of wobbly hand wrangling of the old die holder. I’m not sure that I’ve figured out how to use it properly but it worked OK.
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