Brought a 1/8 buggy to convert!

[coolhandcountry]

I have a question. Where does every one get the metal from to make things? I give it ago if had some metal. I think they are 5mm screws in the bottom.

[squeeforever]

home depot or lows has a desent selection just kinda expensive since they dont sell all that much.

[RC-Monster Mike]

www.onlinemetals.com has what you need. E-bay is a good resource as well.

[MetalMan]

I get my sheet aluminum from Speedy Metals on Ebay. It costs ~$21 with shipping for me to get a 1/8" thick x 6" wide x 48" long sheet of 6061-T6 aluminum. This is what I used to cut my buggy's chassis. They also sell other aluminum, like a 1/4" thick x 2" wide x 48" long sheet of aluminum, which is what I used to make the motor mount on my buggy.
http://stores.ebay.com/SPEEDY-METALS...toreviewQQtZkm

[coolhandcountry]

Thanks everyone. Have to keep all of the above on my list. I can see some fab work in progress now.

[Rtsbasic]

Batfish sorry I must have missed your post. I'm dealing with them directly by email as their sites down at the min.

So 16 cell nimh, with an MGM 16016 and a Feiago 8XL would be a good setup? Would this setup move accross to a truck like the Emaxx if I got bored with the buggy? Would the 7XL be more powerful?

MetalMan, does your chassis have a front kickup? If so how did you get that into your custom chassis?

[MetalMan]

16 cells with an 8XL and MGM160amp could be moved over to an E-Maxx.

My chassis requires a front kickup because of the way the steering plate was designed (with a bend in it). I got kickup on my custom chassis by marking where it was on the old chassis, and then I bent the aluminum in a vice. I matched the angle of the kickup to the stock chassis until it came out right, and what I have now works just fine.

[Gustav]

Does anyone know of a good way to put curved bends into 3mm aluminium.It's for the upper plates i'm making to adapt LST bulks to a thuder tiger EB4 S3 box section chassis,i need to put S-bends in them.Only thing i can think of is bending it over a suitable radius steel pipe,maybe with some heat.Any ideas?

[Rtsbasic]

Last time I tried bending some aluminium (approx 3mm thick) it cracked along the outer edge, the second time I heated it up with a blowtorch and tried, but it still happened. I think I might have been trying to do it over too small of a radius. For the motor plate on my RC10GT I did it over a slightly bigger radius, it still cracked there but not as bad as the first two, so I braced it against a bulkhead and had no problems with it so far.

[Gustav]

Yeah, i think i'll just have to experiment a bit.I know you have to be careful how much you heat ally or it cracks.Trouble is i have to get a pair of s-bends in the front plate,it has two step downs,bulk to steering posts and then steering posts to the chassis box section,all in a relatively short distance.Trial and error may be called for.

There's this T2 on ebay,what do ya reckon?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

[Rtsbasic]

They're cracking little trucks. I've been throwing mine over jumps onto solid concrete and on grass fields since I got it with no parts breakage (even with 8 cells and normal wheels when the cars doing easily over 50mph the time it hits the ramp, although I normally run oversize Masher 2000's on mine). I prefer mine to my T3, although its not quite as responsive its a lot more durable. For £55 shipped with the team shocks, cvds and ti turnbuckles you can't go wrong, it looks like new. I got mine for £41 shipped by Global Express with some spares, but it was more used.

If you get it, make sure a) your not going to be hit with customs (they'll be about £8 with the $60 marked value). and b) put nuts on the screws that hold the rear arm mounts on, otherwise you'll thread the mounts out when you start jumping it. Buy lots of RPM nylon parts for it as well, arms and bodyposts in particular.

[Gustav]

Thanks man,i might have a go for that T2 then,looks like a straight example.

Good luck with the Swift,that was a blinding deal you got there,i've heard good things about them,they're great value.

[Rtsbasic]

Cheers man, hopefully it'll turn out really nice. Good luck with the T2 if you decide to pick it up.

[crazyjr]

Gustav. That is a good buy, they are tanks and can take anything you can throw at them.

[Gustav]

Yeah,i think it's worth getting,even if i might not do much with it yet due to being a bit swamped with projects with other cars.I think the tranny should be able to be made pretty tough,there's parts available but i've been looking at getting gear cutting stuff for my lathe,it's more complex than stuff i do right now though but it'd be great be able to chose any car and make the tranny brushless proof.

This is totally unrelated(sorry) but on LST central today there was an article posted with spy shots of a mini LST.At first i thought it might be a hoax but the pics of it look identical to an LST but the shocks look like regular Losi 1/10 shocks and they look in proportion,in the way 5th scale shocks look on the LST.If it's real this thing will be the king of all mini trucks,i'd put money on that.
Any one else seen this?http://www.lstcentral.com/modules.ph...ewtopic&t=2475

I'd like to make this brushless proof.;)