I was gonna get back to this thread earlier... sorry!
Ok yeah, same deal with the oil treatment, very small amounts. I just recommend that because it's available anywhere, and cheap.
You are quite correct about the bad mesh on the Traxxas ring/pinion. And this has still not been addressed. Same goes for the spiders. It's a shame they refuse to make improvements where they KNOW they need to. But then they don't make their money from RTR stuff do they... As far as shimming the rear, I have, but it seems to make no difference. Maybe amounts to minutes lol. So I just consider those expendable. I've considered going with an all metal trans, but it hasn't been an issue. I know about letting off when you shift.... just not that one time
I don't really do much crawling, but first is just perfect for some things (like when you blow 2nd). As for the Mutation, that was started before I really knew about brushless at all. I didn't anticipate what it would become, past brushed. And the timing with brushless worked great for me as I was able to do a reliable setup and not go thru all the experimentation with different power systems. I say reliable
electrically
I've considered going with the 1/8 diffs, but there are a few things that would pretty much necessitate a full redesign, so it may or may not happen.
But who else can say they've gotten 4 years of fun from the same RC?
And yeah BattleBots/Robot Wars did inspire me somewhat, and a self-righting device would be the cats ass!
There is a lot I'd like to do with it, but if I did I'm afraid there wouldn't be enough 3906 left to call it such. The 'train was adequate for brushed power (barely) with some CVDs, and I did go thru a few sets of plastic idlers, but really I had no idea what MILD brushless power had in store for it.
Your machine work looks very good, and I am extra impressed you're using conventional machines- I have a CNC allergy. They make unbelievable stuff, and I work around them, but I am oldschool. And there are still lots of things that cannot be made by CNC. I let the pros do the programming, I'll have the part made before they have their program imported :)
I have a diverse background, but no experience in gearcutting. Nice to have a few who are experts on such things, besides the Monster himself of course!
Looks like a good playground there too
