dgsselkirk wrote:No, No, Alpha, I meant to stiffen your hull. I seal everything off and then fill the bottom with a 2 part resin that when hardened is stronger than the sheet aluminum that a lot of companies use for their metal hull. If you look at my current build you can see it in the early pics. You can even throw a metal plate into it to add even more weight and once it's hard no hull flex I can tell you that!
OH ...yes I did notice you glass bedded the bottom of your hull dgsselkirk..nice clean job of it too
....the thing that bothered me about this chassis was the screw towers were lopped off...which you left on.... those things are part of the hull design...cut them off and there is no lateral support.... so on my chassis... the sides literally move
...if I press the hull on a flat surface to test the suspension... you can actually see the sides cave into the bottom...take a look at the photo's I posted you can see how weak the sides came as there is already age warpage to the plastic...I think the bottom of the tank will become more rigid after I seat the gearboxes....the previous owner must have had Waterson's or something that has a mounting plate...because all the normal mounts were taken off
That didn't affect the plastic... what did was the lack of the support stays and the "swiss cheesing" of the hull...as holes were left open or covered with green putty..it could be all mental... but it did seem by plugging the holes with a more solid medium...the hull did regain some of it's strength... so now all I have to do is put in some side stays and perhaps a cross member or two
By the way... thanks for answering the question I had in my mind... I was going to ask if you used glass or epoxy to do your chassis
...it's actually a very good idea... and if done the way you did it.... yes ... I can see it would make the overall structure a lot stronger
Have a good one dgsselkirk
HAPPY TANKING
ALPHA
