Custom Made Motor Plate

[RUSTY XL-5]

Originally Posted by What's_nitro?

Very nice work!

How many bits did it take you to make that?

One for cutting, and one for trimming.

Originally Posted by suicideneil

Anything to save a buck, thats Traxxas's motto I believe..

Nice job on the mount dude, might have to look at the dremel router jobby myself- if you give your mount a rubdown with some fine grit sandpaper & 3in1 oil it'll look a million $

Really? I was using Mother's but I couldn't get the hairline scratches out. What kind of grit would you recommend?

[sjcrss]

I'm interested in one myself, let me know if you have enough material, and no big hurry, just let me know....and thanks

[BrianG]

If there is enough demand, I wonder if Mike would stock a thicker plate made from 7075 Al similar to this? Would have to make it look different enough to not be a direct copy (for copyright reasons), but that should be easy enough...

[suicideneil]

Ermm, fine grit...

I have aluminium oxide sandpaper that gets the metal pretty smooth, then something like 400, and finally 800 grit should do the trick, before using 000grit steel wool and the mothers polish. I havent actually practiced getting a really good finish, but I have been reading up on it & asking questions to those who do- Candyman (search for 'maxxbling') does beautiful things with aluminium, leanrt a fair bit. A polishing wheel on the dremel with the mothers would be great too for all the tight spots and curves.

[vader2728]

If your trying to mirror polish then procede on down the line to 1000, 1500 and lastly 2000 grit automotive paper... On a flat plate like that it would be easy to polish to a mirror shine... Wrap the paper around a block and wet sand with the higher grit papers with a back and forth motion... 10 minutes, some elbow grease and a good final buff with Mothers and a quality microfiber towel wrapped around the block (again back and forth) and you'll have a finish worth the shades !