My Brushless Revo Bolt on conversion kit

[squeeforever]

nice! i like it. however, you could have saved ALOT of pain and just went with a jato spur gear. there mod .8 and mesh up perfect to 32p, not to mention it would just bolt right on.

[crazyjr]

Originally Posted by squeeforever

nice! i like it. however, you could have saved ALOT of pain and just went with a jato spur gear. there mod .8 and mesh up perfect to 32p, not to mention it would just bolt right on.

true but they are a little smaller than the Revo gears

[Batfish]

Originally Posted by crazyjr

true but they are a little smaller than the Revo gears

I bought Revo gears to try on my Jato conversion. The 40 tooth Revo gear is just about the same size as the 48 tooth Jato gear. I ended up using the Jato gear because the .8mod is almost exactly the same as 32 pitch. .8mod is 31.175 imperial (I read that somewhere). I ran a Robinson 32pitch gear against the 48 tooth Jato gear for a couple months with no noticeable wear on the spur.

b0gh0s,
First - Welcome to the forums!

Second - This is a nice project at a reasonable cost. I would have the same concerns regarding ESC and battery placement that have been mentioned earlier.

Lastly - RC-Monster hosts these public forums as a means for our members to collaborate on ideas and discuss vehicles and projects. We ask that you not use it as a means for selling your product. You are free to discuss your product and refer people to email, PM, or your own website for further details regarding sales, but please refrain from posting sale information here.
Once you are at a final design (and our gurus here like the overall product) maybe you should talk to Mike (RC-Monster.com owner) about the possibility of selling your product as a dealer. You're welcome to email him at mike@rc-monster.com

All the best to your efforts and welcome aboard!

Thanks Joe! Thanks to all for the welcome btw, this is a cool group and everyone has been pretty nice so far.

I always try to respect the forum rules (going forward I will not post pricing information in the future, sorry). Just to reiterate my intentions, as I stated above, I am not expecting to make any money off this stuff (no one I know really does) but rather just have some fun and make a product that I can sell for a price that will actually offset the cost of making it. I just enjoy designing and building stuff. (and breaking it too). I would be happy to get Mike dealer quantities and pricing, if he can make a margin on it, god bless!

As for the Jato gears, sounds like a good idea, the only problem is that if I go much smaller than 50 teeth, I run into problems finding appropriate pinion gears small enough to hit the target gear ratio range. One of the reasons I went to another brand of gear and went through the trouble of making the gear offset mount is that it makes finding and trying pinion gears easier (much easier access to pinions sizes 14-20 in my LHS experiences than finding 4, 5, and 6 tooth pinions). Again, this associated gear is really popular, and is only 3 bucks per gear typically. Cheap, easy, and accessible.