Are you going to manufacture your own?

Holy Crap! That is just plain awesome!

of course!


And here is it:



http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/q...Slipperpad.jpg

http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/q...s/P1140779.jpg

http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/q...s/P1140784.jpg

http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/q...s/P1140787.jpg


olli

Very nice! The CF should hold up much better than the plastic pads did.

?:neutral:

Looks good tho!

That looks like an NHRA Top-Fuel/Funny-Car Clutch Setup...very nice, and very well done!

What size and weave is that carbon-fiber? I can't tell since I am unsure of the physical dimensions of that clutch-basket, but the weave looks a little too course for the application. Is the CF weave uni-directional, or is it a minimum of bi-directional?

I think you will need a minimum of 3k 45° bi-directional weave to sustain the pressure & heat that clutch is going to see, for sustained periods of time.

Anyway, regardless of what type/size of CF it is, the clutch looks awesome, and you did an excellent job making it...congratulations!

@ Chadworkz

I don´t know nothing about this substance. I have so many carbon odment. Look:

http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/q...s/P1140791.jpg

more important than the wave is the thickness. I need the size of 1,35mm.



Today I graduate the first test drive whit the new carbon slippermpads. But the slipper was a littlebit to close. So the car was to wheely-joyfully.

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And don´t wounder about the wheels. The rims haven´t enough offset and the tires grind on the body. But I want to test this to.

The tires are made of old LST Claws. I cut all the blocks of and grind them clean. Looks ugly but drive well....

http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/q...s/CIMG3582.jpg

http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/q...s/CIMG3583.jpg

http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/q...s/CIMG3585.jpg

olli

The new look is just bad a$$!!.... you can send me your carbon scraps if you wish... I'll dispose of them appropriately...:lol:

I wondered what those tyres were- clever thinking. That truck definately flies when you give it some throttle, need a runway.... :lol: :yes:

In applications such as your clutch disks, you need carbon-fiber that has a very small weave pattern (3k to 8k weave). It looks like you have everything from 500 weave to 6k weave in your scrap kit, so if you need to make new clutch disks, use the scraps with the smallest weave pattern.

The thickness is one thing, but it's the weave and the direction of the fabric that make the biggest difference. 1.35mm 500 weave uni-directional CF won't last long as clutch disks, but 1.35mm 6k weave bi-directional will last forever almost.

Awsome build, I give you lots of props! Man you must have like a million hours of R&D between design and fab. One thing if I may ask you. The servo saver you have , can you share some info on it, like if it was made or bought and if so where I can get it from?

it´s this one http://cgi.ebay.com/HPI-SAVAGE-SILV-...item20b0f8ec4d

but I modify a littlebit

Your CF slipper pads look really nice. Your work is always awesome. I tried a CF slipper in the past on my E-Revo and it ran for a while but eventually failed due to heat delaminating the CF layers. Heat breaks down the epoxy. The solution for me was to make aluminum slipper pads. Not too long after, Traxxas introduced aluminum slipper pads for their new brushless E-Maxx. I am still running the same slipper pad I made more than a year ago. It seems to be indestructible and lasts for a very long time. My thinking was: If aluminum is good enough for clutch shoes on nitro cars, then it will be good enough for slipper pads on brushless systems.
Just another option if the CF fails. I hope it doesn't

He was asked about the runtime he gets on a pack of batterys on that truck.
He stated he would get just under 10 minutes of runtime if he's full on the throttle during the whole time, "until his motor starts to glow". He also plans to do an uncut video from when he plugs in the batterys to when the LiFeDimatic kicks in within the next few days.

I hope this is a sufficiently accurate translation.


Apart from that, love your truck man!

CF starts to break down at 60-70C doesn't it? The clutch will get higher than that I expect.