Who was wrenching today??? What did you do??

[Doom!]

I really need to stop buying wheels and scale bolts..!!
Can’t decide if I like my color choices, gold bolts, should may be better with black.? (Currently don’t have any black ones)

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Gold looks good.

 

[Tallbump]

I really need to stop buying wheels and scale bolts..!!
Can’t decide if I like my color choices, gold bolts, should may be better with black.? (Currently don’t have any black ones)

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Those look gorgeous. Of course, I am bias because I am doing a blue and gold SCX24 Gladiator build

 

[Horatio]

Ballraced front anti-rollbar.

No win this time - but it was a solid first race with the new chassis - 2nd in qualifying and 2nd in the A. I was beaten by a former world champion, so no shame in being beaten! Need to hone my consistency into the 97-98% zone.

Pits....

My pit table

Track - from this design:

Track was well received! I design the track each round now. Symmetrical tracks are faster to lay-out, but still drive great and with a definite rhythm.

RC racing bug has hit hard again...

The B7 Factory Team has gone from being 'meh' - to a formidable carpet warrior.

Just honed these to fit the Vision chassis - Revolution Design battery hold down tabs...

Now I can use bands or the tabs.

This rig is hitting 43mph indoors, drawing just 90A. A phenomenal bit of kit. Easier to drive than my 22X-4 - just not quite as quick....

Same track design, same cells, same ESC, same driver. 0.5 second average lap difference. Purely for reference - the 22X-4 Elite was hitting 46mph and pulling 120A!!

Then - Monday was a snow day - so the XTR was having it!!!

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

hosed off, and i literally mean hosed off with the garden hose, the winter beater today. that's about as much RCing as i got done this weekend.

 

[OnwardGuinevere]

Worked on the race buggy a bit. Had to fix some settings on the radio, had some motor turn issues. All good now though! Added clear vinyl to the crash prone areas over the lexan to save it a little in crash .

Planning the next bodies for paintwork.

 

[Tallbump]

Made progress on 2 rigs last night.
On the Gladiator, I put a new ESC tray on. Well, actually, I glued this one on top of the factory one. Gave more shock mounting locations

Also switched the front body mounts to magnets

How it sits.

Also made progress on the Jeep toy body. Covered some of the existing holes.

Also painted the taillights

Hoping to get the bottom of the cargo area and the floor covered tonight, which will finish the interior and let me get the rear magnet mounts done. Then I have a few accessories to go in, and need to figure out a driver

 

[WickedFog]

Email has been sent. I'll let you guys know!

Liar!

Hey. I totally forgot about an RCT pit mat. Did you ever hear anything?

I think this guy could come up with a badass pit mat for the forum.
https://darksidestudioarts.com/coll...822&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email

 

[Chubaka]

Liar!

Hey. I totally forgot about an RCT pit mat. Did you ever hear anything?

I think this guy could come up with a badass pit mat for the forum.
https://darksidestudioarts.com/coll...822&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email

Id be down for one.

 

[RippingLegos]

Worked on this vintage Edinger, it was a mess of a road rig-cleaned, rebuilt the shocks, and installed a new painted jay TA body, wheels and tires are original (proline waffle fronts).

 

[Lucifur10]

Rj Speed Superbird. Bellypan is made but needs smoothnering. Battery location done. Motor and esc mounted. Fabrication on the increase....love this stuff.

 

[Doom!]

Nice work there prince of darkness, gonna be a killer rig!

 

[Lucifur10]

I gotta get some color on it so at least you can see the body lines.

 

[Tallbump]

Took about 2 hours to really get everything dialed in and functioning properly. That's including figuring out placement on electronics, as I am using a factory servo on the plow, which has a REALLY short wire. I am using a Meus M-04B receiver. This thing is tiny. Servo is plugged into channel 3 and activated by the little button on the Meus ME-8B

I had to really play with getting the servo horn in the right spot to have the plow blade all the way down. Hitting the button raised the blade.

The plow prints in 2 pieces. The bumper mount which has a built in servo mount and the actual plow blade.
I used a section of paperclip for the hinge to connect the blade to the mount and another piece of paperclip to connect the blade to the servo horn.
Getting the lengths and angles just right was tricky.

The servo is a little thinner than the mount, so I wedged 2 pieces of styrene in there to keep it snug. I then mounted the receiver to the top of the servo mount, next to the servo.

It now has no ground clearance and isn't a crawler, but, it is a fun little toy.
I had it out on the front porch last night and moved a little snow. It was too dark and the dogs were barking and I didn't want them to wake up the family so I didn't get video (plus I am still not good at 1 handed driving and recording with the other hand) but I'll recruit some help and get video today

 

[WickedFog]

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Took about 2 hours to really get everything dialed in and functioning properly. That's including figuring out placement on electronics, as I am using a factory servo on the plow, which has a REALLY short wire. I am using a Meus M-04B receiver. This thing is tiny. Servo is plugged into channel 3 and activated by the little button on the Meus ME-8B
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I had to really play with getting the servo horn in the right spot to have the plow blade all the way down. Hitting the button raised the blade.

The plow prints in 2 pieces. The bumper mount which has a built in servo mount and the actual plow blade.
I used a section of paperclip for the hinge to connect the blade to the mount and another piece of paperclip to connect the blade to the servo horn.
Getting the lengths and angles just right was tricky.

The servo is a little thinner than the mount, so I wedged 2 pieces of styrene in there to keep it snug. I then mounted the receiver to the top of the servo mount, next to the servo.

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It now has no ground clearance and isn't a crawler, but, it is a fun little toy.
I had it out on the front porch last night and moved a little snow. It was too dark and the dogs were barking and I didn't want them to wake up the family so I didn't get video (plus I am still not good at 1 handed driving and recording with the other hand) but I'll recruit some help and get video today

You're probably gonna need a lot of weight to push any snow. And 3d print some tracks to wrap around the tires. I toyed atound with a 1/16 WPL snow plow, but it was a failure. It would just sit and spin the tires, and I had duallies on the front as well when it failed.

 

[Lucifur10]

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Took about 2 hours to really get everything dialed in and functioning properly. That's including figuring out placement on electronics, as I am using a factory servo on the plow, which has a REALLY short wire. I am using a Meus M-04B receiver. This thing is tiny. Servo is plugged into channel 3 and activated by the little button on the Meus ME-8B
View attachment 263234

I had to really play with getting the servo horn in the right spot to have the plow blade all the way down. Hitting the button raised the blade.

The plow prints in 2 pieces. The bumper mount which has a built in servo mount and the actual plow blade.
I used a section of paperclip for the hinge to connect the blade to the mount and another piece of paperclip to connect the blade to the servo horn.
Getting the lengths and angles just right was tricky.

The servo is a little thinner than the mount, so I wedged 2 pieces of styrene in there to keep it snug. I then mounted the receiver to the top of the servo mount, next to the servo.

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It now has no ground clearance and isn't a crawler, but, it is a fun little toy.
I had it out on the front porch last night and moved a little snow. It was too dark and the dogs were barking and I didn't want them to wake up the family so I didn't get video (plus I am still not good at 1 handed driving and recording with the other hand) but I'll recruit some help and get video today

Your plow needs to be wider than your front wheel track or it ends up running on virgin unplowed snow. Print up a couple of wings. I've plowed a lot of full scale rigs and know this as fact. Cool setup though. Ingenious.

 

[Tallbump]

You're probably gonna need a lot of weight to push any snow. And 3d print some tracks to wrap around the tires. I toyed atound with a 1/16 WPL snow plow, but it was a failure. It would just sit and spin the tires, and I had duallies on the front as well when it failed.
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Your plow needs to be wider than your front wheel track or it ends up running on virgin unplowed snow. Print up a couple of wings. I've plowed a lot of full scale rigs and know this as fact. Cool setup though. Ingenious.

Thanks for the feedback.

Honestly, I am not incredibly worried about making it MORE effective. At least not this year. Maybe next winter LOL
This was just a fun project, just becuase.
I saw it as a free file on Bambu and already had some filament on the printer so I figured why not?
I also had he spare servo as I had just replaced one. And I was in the middle of rebuilding the JLU anyway - well, converting it to brushless.

So I figured what the heck, let's try it.

I have never been mechanically inclined, but I do have a creative side, and, I do like being mentally challenged (yes, I said that). SO what I have struggled in life mechanically always overcame out of sheer stubbornness and the intellect side of figuring out how something works, then making it happen. I guess that's why some folks are engineers are some are mechanics LOL.

But, I still have a few more little things to do with this. I got a while Jeep SCX30 for Christmas and my goal is to make them look as close as possible to eachother. These will not be comp builds by any means, just scale builds with as much performance as possible without losing scale look.

I also have 3 other 24s I am currently working on. Plus with the 3D printer, my thoughts are running wild, not with just RC stuff

I will definitely hang on to the plow set up. Next winter I might revisit it. If I do I will probably look into tracks, I do like that idea. And I would switch to a receiver that would allow me to actually really control the plow, raise and lower it. Right now it is basically just a button that just moves it full speed one way. SO I have it in the down position and hitting the button raises it. I would put it on a dial switch, like my RWS build, and make it so I have full control, putting it in a neutral position off the ground to start, then be able to go higher or lower as desired

 

[J. Rambo]

I finally put the Kraton v5 back together. It hasn't seen life since fall of 2024. Bought a new exb chassis that I swapped, added a max6/4990 combo, m2c Droop screws, rebuilt front Shocks, new front passenger cvd. I'm in business!

 

[332_RC]

I finally put the Kraton v5 back together. It hasn't seen life since fall of 2024. Bought a new exb chassis that I swapped, added a max6/4990 combo, m2c Droop screws, rebuilt front Shocks, new front passenger cvd. I'm in business!

That's gonna be a great basher! The Max6 4990 is mega power!

 

[J. Rambo]

That's gonna be a great basher! The Max6 4990 is mega power!

I had the gen 1 in there, it took a on me. The reason it took so long was bc i was too lazy to do the chassis swap.

I'm planning to hit the dirt park few times this year. Been plenty times b4, 'cept last year. It wasn't the same w a typhon (for me at least). Lol

 

[332_RC]

I had the gen 1 in there, it took a on me. The reason it took so long was bc i was too lazy to do the chassis swap.

I'm planning to hit the dirt park few times this year. Been plenty times b4, 'cept last year. It wasn't the same w a typhon (for me at least). Lol

Cool. I found a MTB dirt park 15 minutes from me right before Christmas! Been there nearly 2 years, I never knew. Gonna take the K6 soon. Or Notorious. Or both