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Thomas · 06.21.2009, 05:04 AM

In your situation, I would just make the angled plates and sell them for DIY modelers, who will bore and shape it for their vehicle. There are so many different chassis out there and you will have to spend countless hours cutting and boring if you decide to offer finished chassis. Except if you have a CNC mill and the CAD data of the different chassis... .

Ryu James · 06.21.2009, 06:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Thomas

In your situation, I would just make the angled plates and sell them for DIY modelers, who will bore and shape it for their vehicle. There are so many different chassis out there and you will have to spend countless hours cutting and boring if you decide to offer finished chassis. Except if you have a CNC mill and the CAD data of the different chassis... .

yeah i would never try to offer chassis' for all the kits just doing it by hand. i have a machinist and a design guy i have been working with. so far the rc8/rc8t is CAD designed and i am running CNC'd models myself. now i am working on the 8ight and the MBX5t as far as getting them CAD drawn and then CNC'd. we keep running into issues with the machining though. CNCing carbon is not easy. the first couple i did turned out great and then i had a bunch where the bit must have got dull or something cuz the carbon was tearing at all the cuts and delaminating on holes drilled. i have recently joined a machinists forum and have learned a lot about machining carbon. its almost like a trade secret really knowing how to machine carbon nicely. anyway, its a pain in the ass to work with but i think we will get a good system down soon.

i really have been doing this more as a hobby and so i havent been making very fast progress. slowly but surely things are coming along though.

Mentat · 06.21.2009, 01:18 PM

I am a certified CAD tech, using ACAD latest release. If i had a machinist person with a CNC etc. we could prob make some money. I have often thought about making my own rc parts.

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Originally Posted by Ryu James

yeah i would never try to offer chassis' for all the kits just doing it by hand. i have a machinist and a design guy i have been working with. so far the rc8/rc8t is CAD designed and i am running CNC'd models myself. now i am working on the 8ight and the MBX5t as far as getting them CAD drawn and then CNC'd. we keep running into issues with the machining though. CNCing carbon is not easy. the first couple i did turned out great and then i had a bunch where the bit must have got dull or something cuz the carbon was tearing at all the cuts and delaminating on holes drilled. i have recently joined a machinists forum and have learned a lot about machining carbon. its almost like a trade secret really knowing how to machine carbon nicely. anyway, its a pain in the ass to work with but i think we will get a good system down soon.

i really have been doing this more as a hobby and so i havent been making very fast progress. slowly but surely things are coming along though.

Ryu James · 06.21.2009, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Mentat

I am a certified CAD tech, using ACAD latest release. If i had a machinist person with a CNC etc. we could prob make some money. I have often thought about making my own rc parts.

for sure. where are you located? the guy that does my CAD drawings now has a construciton company and doesnt have alot of time to draw up my chassis'. i have wanted to find someone with the same passion for RC as me that could do the CAD stuff on a full time basis, or at least put more time into it than this current guy is.