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Tiger6 wrote:I'm only going to use the WPL motor, leaf springs and JJRC axles (and they will have to be cut down and rehoused).

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Mr Tiger, maybe we can use a different axle
Leaf sprung variety with WPL internals, i can maybe sort you out for adjustable width axles.
Or maybe we can look at designing a new axle casing to take the jjrc internals. they are reasonably strong, but only if you replace the nylon bearings with metal ones to ensure a good tight mesh. My experience is the jjrc axles only fail because the pinion has alot of play in the nylon bearing and it causes it to slip under load

@ Gary Metal versions are available - looks for ones with a square housing rather than cylindrical. For the M3, I think plastic will be fine. I'm only going to use a 130 motor, not going to tow, or go rock crawling or racing with it. My philosophy on the whole deal is 'cheap' - if I trash an axle, there are plenty more to be had on Ebay. I've had a few motors burn out, but not broken any axles yet.

@ Will - those axle housings in the model are already custom lengths so I will have to pull the whole gubbins apart as we discussed a while back anyway. Doubt I'll need to do this for the M3, but certainly a beefed up axle with ball bearings for the M19 and Diamond T 696 might be a good idea, I already have 2x5x2.5 ball bearings in my library that I can throw in there.
Still, if you can send over your WPL axles designs that will get me over the hump on the Steyr 1500 and maybe a couple of other projects like the M37 and SdKfz222

Did you say SdKfz 222? Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy ...

Tiger6 wrote:@ Gary Metal versions are available - looks for ones with a square housing rather than cylindrical. For the M3, I think plastic will be fine. I'm only going to use a 130 motor, not going to tow, or go rock crawling or racing with it. My philosophy on the whole deal is 'cheap' - if I trash an axle, there are plenty more to be had on Ebay. I've had a few motors burn out, but not broken any axles yet.

@ Will - those axle housings in the model are already custom lengths so I will have to pull the whole gubbins apart as we discussed a while back anyway. Doubt I'll need to do this for the M3, but certainly a beefed up axle with ball bearings for the M19 and Diamond T 696 might be a good idea, I already have 2x5x2.5 ball bearings in my library that I can throw in there.
Still, if you can send over your WPL axles designs that will get me over the hump on the Steyr 1500 and maybe a couple of other projects like the M37 and SdKfz222

Happy to share those, i thought i had already so apologies for not sooner
Give me an idea of track width and i get it tweaked. Still need to finish the front driven axle as i haven't had a need yet myself

Max-U52 wrote:Did you say SdKfz 222? Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy ...

And Steyr 1500, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy,


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Probably be Christmas before this one is done...

I’ll stock up on toilet rolls then Martin
My PC is in storage atm but I sent Will some Steyr 1500 A (the coupe version) files last year I think, perhaps if he still has them he could forward them to you, they may be of some use??
Cheers
Wayne


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midlife306 wrote:I’ll stock up on toilet rolls then Martin
My PC is in storage atm but I sent Will some Steyr 1500 A (the coupe version) files last year I think, perhaps if he still has them he could forward them to you, they may be of some use??
Cheers
Wayne


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could do

Going to have to call this one done and get back on with the day job tomorrow...

That is beautiful. Very well done. That will be great

Impressed