Wow, this is awesome. I'd ship something to you so you could get some work out of the router but I'm afraid shipping would cost more than the job would here (if I were to go to a company and have it done)
That is possibly one of the coolest things I have ever seen. How much time do you think you have invested in it? That is definitely amazing A great display of mechanical and electrical work prix0r
Sorry Lupine, I ogt it finnished a couple of weeks ago, but haven't got around to taking photo's yet. I have made some rather lovely alloy wheels for my car though!
I turned the wheels on the lathe, but the router cut out the designs in the centre, and on the reverse is a 12mm hex nut hole, which engages with the drive-nut on the cars axles. . Sorry guys, I guess I'm just not much of a modder anymore!
It is ok. You now have a machine you can make just about anything with. I like that stuff a lot. I wish I had a cnc machine. So how fast is this rc car in ft/min, or is it gonna be more accurate to describe it in Kph?
From what he's said previously, it's a nitromethane/internal combustion job. They tend (IIRC) to get clocked in MPH, so KPH would be more appropriate than ft/min. And as far as the wheels go, I'm impressed. Especially since it sounds like you started from raw barstock aluminium.
Yep, the car will go 50Mph, and the wheels started off as 2.5" dia x 2" length solid bar. My lathe is very slow, only 0.2mm depth of cut per pass, so you'll understand why they took about 4hrs each to make!
Hehe, there's a couple of videos of the car in action on the Traxxas website: http://www.traxxas.com/products/nitro/nrustler/trx_nrustler.htm
me mate(his rich), he got into the nirto car thing a while ago and his dad bought a HARM, its a 1/4 scale and it has ventilated disk brakes 60cc engine i think, and it is damn fast, dont know the speed exactially but its about 70-80mph
crazy, i have one of those cars too but mine isnt a truck i have a 1/10th scale on road touring car. goes about 40 mph my neighbor has a 1/6th scale model and his top speed is around 120 mph thats right 120 MPH but he custom built that one. mine cost around 700 canadian to get started. im lovin the rims
Stunning. You want to make some wheels for my RC car? Saying that, they would probably cost more than the car.
I am in the process of finding/buying a new lathe, a bit better suited to cutting out the wheels. Once I have it, then I will be making them to sell. If you want more info, then get in touch off-list.
It's nice to see that the rc bug has bitten you! I am currently repairing my 1/8th Kyosho inferno 6.5 after a full throttle incident with a parked car and reciever battery pack disconnection... I taco'ed the 3mm aluminum chasis, broke the front bones, sploded my fuel tank, tweaked my servo tray(also alum) that in turned filleted my servos and finialy, snapped my carb and broke a front lower a arm.... Sadness is... Sorry If I hijacked this but I just wanted to join the spirit of the ot subject! BTW, the car was doing 65+ when it hit! (it has a Pico .21 with pipe!) Now to take the dremel to it and be a mean mother modder! Now back to our regularly schedualed thread.
is this project finished, i would love to see more, and i want to know if ther is a video of this one working, looks like its very dangerous, i love it.