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Tired of rear skidplate wear...

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Well, I've been through about 4 stock skids and 2 alloy skids (1 integy and 1 GH), then I found the impact RC skid wear plates and ran those a bit. Problem was is that I'd need a new one every weekend.
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So, I just took a hunk of steel, drilled a couple holes, beveled the leading edge and slapped it on. Works great and will take quite some time to wear through.

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I'm running stiff springs and heavy oil (blue with 60 weight I think) and it still bottoms out enough at my concrete skate park to chew right through a skid in short order. The steel one is holding up well though.
 
Well... I posted the dilemma on another forum today... and I was directed to a few parts that may help that I may actually look into.

One part is a shock baffle that blocks holes (as it compresses is my guess) so it limits the speed on landing, but rebound doesn't suffer as bad as as it would if you were running really thick oil. On rebound, the reeds flex and open more holes so the rebound will be faster. I had tried this a few years ago on my aftershock without success. I couldn't get the baffle/reed valve to stay put. It seems traxxas made something for this: Traxxas VDS.

Back in the day, I tried running P3 rockers/rods and high viscosity oil, but that made the truck handle like crap on rough stuff. So with VDS, I could run possibly lighter oil and springs to get even better handling than I have now, but it will still handle decent air without bottoming out so bad.

The second part was a rear bulkhead brace that captures the lower hinge pins so they won't fall out if the skid does wear through: m2c bulkhead brace

Then the thread I made got spun off in a tangent of people having fits about the fact that the thread was started about skid plate issues... at least I got a couple of nuggets before it went to crap. :horsecrap Granted, this doesn't fix the wear issue, but it is a nice safe gaurd when your skid snaps.

I may give the baffle thing a look at a later time, but for now (just ran another 500cc's through it), the steel skid is doing a good job protecting my aluminum skid. :)
 
Must be I don't beat my revo like you do....:hehe: I still have plastics, but I run on dirt 90% of the time. That's a good idea, a skidplate skidplate. I think I'll be leaving work with some stainless in the near future.:ponder2:
 
Holy crap...!!! How hard do you drive your beast...???

Or is that just what concrete will do..?? I Drive mine mainly on my local outdoor RC track or local BMX tracks(bigger jumps) and yeah the skidplate is scratched but dosent look like it wearing thin...

I'm gonna have to try thr skate park next.. See if i can smash my skidplate in half :)
 
That's just what concrete does. Mostly from the face of the ramp prior to launch since 75% of the time I'm landing in grass as I launch out of the skate park. It's really the one of the two places I have to run. After about an hour I get bored and do dumb stuff, so I usually leave before it costs me more than my pride.
 

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