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01.01.2013, 09:45 PM

I know most of you scale guys probably like the look of black links better, especially for scale appearance. But I have always been a big fan of bare metal color myself. Its just a preference of mine, and it makes it different than most others. Plus, I'm not a huge fan of painting things, especially when I know they have a very good chance of getting scratched. The look that parts get when they're painted and get all scratched up just bothers me. But to each his own right

Sometime here soon I will be replacing the plastic axle housings with aluminum ones as well. And I have been toying with bead blasting the entire frame and having it powder coated...just haven't landed on an exact color yet...but it will definitely be some shade of silver/stainless steel color.

I really like the color of this frame on RC4WD's website...I wish mine would have come this color.



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Made a couple more Stainless Steel parts (from the scrap round stock I had left over from making the axle link mounts)

Cut, drilled & tapped a piece of ss round stock to replace the black anodized aluminum ones (that seem to strip out very easily) and replaced the metric hardware with standard ss hardware. The original stuff above, and the new below.


Made a set for both the front and rear of the truck (between the shock towers)


And polished the square center frame support, just for fun :D



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