LOSI LST XXL Conversion ideas

[mistercrash]

For now, it's just trying to come up with a nice electric conversion that looks factory made. I really want the LST, when will I be able to get it is unknown We just bought a new and bigger house and we are still unpacking from the move three days ago Lots of work to do around this house but I still want to squeeze this truck in.
As for the three piece bottom plate, it is no different than the stock truck, the XXL uses a rear and front skid plate and a middle one that are not touching each other as far as I know. They all look separately secured to the chassis rails. What I show in the last movie are three bottom plates that overlap each other to form a flat bottom. This is because the center plate would be lower than the stock one. At the same level with the front and rear plates. The center plate also houses the batteries so the lower it is, the better for a low CG.
With the help of a band saw, the one piece chassis rails should be fairly easy to make with a bit of planning. The hard part might be to find the raw material to make them at a reasonable price. I still don't know how high the stock chassis rails are, if they are 1.5 inches high or less, I should be able to find material to fabricate at a good price. If they are higher than that then I might have some difficulties.
Thanks for your feedback, I appreciate it.

[JThiessen]

On the stock chassis, the plastic rail and the top plate do all the load carrying. The center plate keeps the lower rails from spreading apart when a load is applied. The front and rear skids aren't part of the equation.

The stock rail is something around .983 thick in the center - I havent measured the ends. Probably somewhere around 1.25" or so.

I went back and looked at your vid again. For some reason, I thought that your center rails were three piece.....sorry!

What CAD are you using? I might be able to send you my CAD files.

[mistercrash]

I'm not using CAD, I draw to scale with CorelDraw and then export the drawings in jpeg to make the little movies. CorelDraw lets me export whatever I drew in a lot of formats including DXF and DWG AutoCAD files. If you want to send me your CAD files I can just download some free CAD reader off the internet to see them. Once I see the measurements, I can duplicate the part in CorelDram but only in 2D. Thanks.

Ray
raymondduchesne@sympatico.ca