LOSI LST XXL Conversion ideas

[Chadworkz]

I feel ya...pretty much all I do is jump and do jump tricks now. My ramp is built to throw the truck up very high (but I still get good distance), which gives me plenty of time to do some insane tricks and get the truck settled for landing, but I don't always land perfectly. I jump up onto the roof of my house pretty often, then jump off, jump over real cars/trucks, jump over smaller buildings, over creeks and ponds, etc., etc.. I usually stay out jumping until I break something, which is almost always an a-arm...you can look closely at pics of my Revo and see where I have repaired broken a-arms (CA the break together, cut a groove with my Dremel, CA a finish-nail into the groove, completely wrap the length of the groove/nail with strong black thread, then soak the thread with CA. The fixed area is actually stronger than the rest of the a-arm). I have a few sets of new a-arms, but because I break them so often, I just keep fixing the broken ones until I can no longer fix it anymore, then replace it.

Ray,

Great build as always ! The thing i can't get out of my head was how big that bastage is!...So you like the new slipper that much huh? I may have to get one...

[mistercrash]

Originally Posted by Deahttub

Ray,

Great build as always ! The thing i can't get out of my head was how big that bastage is!...So you like the new slipper that much huh? I may have to get one...

Thanks and yup, I like the slipper. It's been working great so far and that's with a torquey 1521 1Y on 6S hauling a 14 pound truck.

I think I will go ahead and make the B2201 parts out of CF. I think I have enough 2.5 mm CF to make them. Might even make a vid of how I duplicate aluminum parts on CF.

[jpoprock]

Originally Posted by mistercrash

Might even make a vid of how I duplicate aluminum parts on CF.

WOW! Please do!!! I would love to see how you do this. It would really help a guy like me visualize how to do it. I'm a visual learner. I have to see something done in order to grasp it better.

It would help so much to see what this modified part is you put on your router, that you took from another tool...etc.

jason

[mistercrash]

Here's the vid on how I make CF parts. It's dark in my garage so I hope you can see well. Geez my French accent really shows in this vid Lots of hand porn in this one.



And just for you jpoprock, Here's the adapter I use to fit a 1/8'' shank in a 1/4'' router. You can see the 1/4'' hole of the router made for 1/4'' tools like the one on top and the 1/4'' to 1/8'' adapter to fit 1/8'' shank tools like the Dremel bit on the left.



Looking at the movie, I realized how annoying the sound of a carbide bit cutting CF is. It's worst than a dentist's drill.

[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.