OK, Hydrodancer, you owe me $1.47 (the price of the RIT dye)! ;)

It didn't work well at all. At most, they are tinted black. Not even the relatively rough cut marks took the dye well. At least the coloring will be closer to black/gunmetal than white was.

All is not lost, though. At the same time, I dyed one of my daughter's tanktops and she is happy.

A little update. I just sent the whole buggy in to Mike so he can custom make a combination diff mount and motor mount out of Al. I took pictures and stuff, but it'll be easier if he has the whole thing to play with. I'm pretty psyched. :dft003:

Cool man, can't wait to see it done. I am working on a design for a motor mount/diff mount with Mike for my LSP at the moment...

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I can't wait either, but I gave Mike plenty of time to work on it (~Feb) so he can take his time and so I can build up some cash. I might just have him hold it until I get the motor, ESC, and batts all at once. Maybe by then, I'll have 2,000 posts and get a coupon. :) j/k.

I was going to try to do it myself, but there's no way I was going to be able to make an integrated design that would fit right and be sturdy.

Exactly why I am letting Mike cnc me a motor/diff mount. I have tried to make make one on my e-maxx and could not get it sturdy enough...

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So you decided to finish the emaxx after all, eh? Oh well, it's only money right? You can't take it with you. :027:

No, the mount is for LSP.

I took some measurements and braced the bulks together front to rear on the e-maxx on the chassis. The chassis turned out to not be straight, only off by like 1cm front to back, but enough to throw everything else off. So, my LSP will soon be brushless...

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Ah, I see. If I had read both of your last posts, I would have realized that. :007:

...Brian I have just caught up with this thread and it looks really good so far...I dig the diff top plate...nice cuts...

Thanks! Unfortunately, the top plate will most probably be coming out since Mike is making a whole new mount. Once I get the buggy back, it'll probably be going in the garbage. That's what I get when I jump the gun I guess.

...can i ask what the foamy bits on the side of the diff plate and your servo plate are?

...fabricate, re-do and fabricate again lol...You know you love it...lol...

The foamy bits are a closely guarded secret. They actually provide stealth battery power to the motor.



Actually, they're just adhesive-backed craft foam from Wally-world. :)

Yeah, the fabrication is the fun part. It just sucks that it came out like I wanted and I'm not gonna use it after all. I made it by rough cutting with a hacksaw, fine-cutting with a nibbler tool, and then filing until pretty.

...Long live the Nibbler!! Thats thing looks handy :D Mike needs to stock them lol...

...interesting to see different attacks on different issues though...I looked at that type of plate on the hellfire but i couldnt work it how i wanted so took a different route...I know what you mean though...I hate re-doing stuff that already 'works'...

Yeah, the nibbler tool is a MUST-HAVE for me! I would be lost without it. I usually have two on hand because after a while, one will get worn out and I hate stopping in the middle of a project to go get a part or tool. It cuts 1/16" 6061 easily.

Ooh goody! Mike got my buggy center diff done! Looks nice! I don't even have it yet, but I have to share!