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Hi Guys!! I'm new here. I was looking around for info on my project and I found this site. I'm building a brushless MT2 and I noticed there are some pro's on here. Here are some pics of my progress.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ishedassy1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ishedassy6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ishedassy2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ishedassy3.jpg

Me like :D. Looks to be very promising. Welcome to the forums, by the way!

Looks good!

I would say : Good solid skills, much better than mine:007:

Give us pls some more information about your project, which bl combo you want to use, what materials you will use for building the chassis?...

Looking good! Awesome job!!

I think it would be wise to make a less complex upperbrace to cut the production costs a bit!

The motorplate needs some tweaking too!

Fine :)
The only one thing I can say about this is: isnt' it too weight on the rear ?
I would move that battery holders a little bit more in the front.

Ciao :)
Daniele

Hey, that is looking good. If you need any machinining done, let me know. You looks like you got solidworks down pretty well. Which version are you using?

Let me know.

Looks good
-Joe

Thanks guys!! I had no idea there were any responses to this thread since my e-mail didn't notify me. (Hense the lack of response)

The materials will be 6061-T6 aluminum. The chassis is standard stock .098" thick. I was going to go a little thicker but I didn't want to add too much weight and the upper brace should be sufficient. I have a machine shop in MA that I deal with that owes me a favor so I'm waiting for a quote. The upper brace should be the only pricey part. The rest is standard stock and uses a fairly large radius through out. I may use an irridite finish if any.

My goal with this project was simple.... Use the same length and wheel base as the stock MT2 SS. I did not lenghten the chassis at all; just widened it for the batteries. They are as far forward as I can go since they sit under the spur gear cover. (Any closer and the pinion will rub) As a result I swaped the center dogbones front to back. This allowed me to move the gear assy forward enough for the batteries. The dogbones determined the center location.

I'm going with the Mamba Max 4600 and 12 GP3300 cells for now. That should rip pretty good.

I'm using Solidworks 2006.

Any more input is welcome!!

looks awesome... what did you use to make the gears... is there a built in application within 2006 to build gears? or did you use something like geartrax?

I'm not sure how he did it, but in 2005 (probably many earlier versions as well, though I'm not sure) there is the toolbox that has a lot of premade gears. When I did mine I modeled the blank with an extruded circle. Then I opened the gear with the pitch and number of teeth I wanted and copied the 'tooth cut' sketch then pasted it on my blank. Cut extrude, circular repeat. Add extra modelling (cuts for cutting down on weight, slipper pad cuts) and you're done. There is probably a better way to do it, but this way is pretty easy.

JB

LOL

I cheated. First I extruded the inner diameter of the circle so I had a blank circle at the desired thickness. Then I measured the size of one tooth and created it on the same plane. Next I used my favorite command "pattern mirror" using the circular pattern. I used that command to create 55 teeth and checked off "equal spacing." The axis of the circle drove the command.

Make sense?

Nice! Looks like a very solid design to me...can't wait to see the finished article mate! :)

Hi Guys it's been a while!!

Well I hope to finally have a quote from the machine shop this week. It only took about hmmm 3-1/2 months. So much for a favor!

I can't wait to post pics of this thing.

Thats great. Can't wait to see it rip!!

We cant also wait for you to post the pics....:017:

I hope everything will go as smooth as possible so you can get this done...Great Job