LOSI LST XXL Conversion ideas

[JThiessen]

Good vid on that MC. I gotta yell at you for how close you got your finger to that bit a time or two - especially with gloves on.

[mistercrash]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

I gotta yell at you for how close you got your finger to that bit a time or two - especially with gloves on.

I know the fingers get real close sometimes but that's what happens when you make small parts by hand. Of all the parts I made like this, the bit only caught my finger once.

[mistercrash]

I found something that needed some rework on this truck. The front skid plate doubler I made to hold the Muggy steering was bugging me. The way the bellcranks are set up, the top part is held by the chassis' top plate and the bottom part of the bellcranks are held by the front skid plate doubler I made. The thing that bugged me was that the doubler and the top plate were not parallel because of the truck's kick up. So I changed the design of the doubler by having the portion of it that holds the Muggy bellcranks bent up by a few degrees (around 10) so that it is parallel to the top plate. The holes for the screws are moved back 3 mm also. Now the Muggy bellcranks sit nice and perpendicular to the chassis and there's no more funky business going on when I try to put the screws in. It all fits almost perfectly. I say almost because nothing is ever absolutely perfect when making parts by hand.

old doubler on the left.



You can see the slight bend I am talking about.



Installed.



And Calvin somehow found it's way on my battery doors.