My latest scale build up

[Tex]

don't get off topic......please

[RobH]

This is some good shit, I used to do the same kind of stuff with 1/18 motorcycles lol

[kevinF]

dude the babie is allmost as big as the mother.....lol, thats one big baby, good work jim

[rocco79]

Wow... (9 months went by huh)

[Bikerman]

no..miniature action figures(not dolls) have a miniature gestation period..DUH

great stuff, funny read at 3am( i read it last night)

[FreeRideFrosty]

Lmao!!!

[rocco79]

Hmmm... i did not know that! Makes sense ... Smaller baby... Less time in the oven!

[Czech-it-Out Graphics]

will there be an adult rated version of this story??? giggity giggity giggity

[Racin' Ranger1]

will there be an adult rated version of this story??? giggity giggity giggity

lollolololol

[cowboy]

I bet Jim is wishing he had used his finger.

[Mnster]

With Jane away taking care of new born Judy. Jim worked some more on the winch install.


Jim was a super hero in his past life, so he possessed some super human strength. In other words he was in a wheel chair and pushing himself around so it beefed up his arms. He bent the small pipe across his leg by hand with ease.






He then determined where the winch would come out at.






Jim threaded the winch spool piece with some of that new synthetic winch line. Much safer and stronger then the braided Spyderwire fishing line that Jim used in the past.


Jim began work on converting the GWS brand steering servo to winch duty.






As it turns out all you have to do to disconnect the centering device is remove this plastic piece.


In case you wondering what the centering device looks like here it is. The one in the servo was junk from over use causing it to twitch. Jim stole this one from the servo savage drawer out of a standard futaba servo.


I soldered the new part into place.


After tuning it with the radio Jim centered the servo and placed a drop of CA on the centering device to stop it from turning. He then placed it back in the chassis.


He threaded the guide tube and spool with line, then mounted the winch with the unused left over servos mount brackets from my TLT kit.


The front section was solidly bolted to the chassis with another battery bar.


Completed install


In testing the winch couldn't pull any farther. Not enough torque.


We will have to work on that with power upgrades. The Rooster Esc only has like a 2amp BEC not enough juice for the 2 servos anyways. Last year I had a similar setup on my Bruiser running off of 7.2 volts that could lift the entire truck off the ground. The problem with torque I think also has to do with the large winch spool, the 5-6ft of line is nice though. I think maybe Jim and I will try and overload the servos chip thing to see how much voltage it can take, we have tons of spares. If that does not work we may go to a micro servo switch setup. The chassis is running out of space Jim needs to buy some smaller electronics and get that bed cover built.

[Tex]

awesome.

[Racin' Ranger1]

nice work jim,lol

[rusty savage]

jim is the man!!

[Czech-it-Out Graphics]

where is the car seat?

[get dustd]

holy crap...

[TmaxxCrap]

Nice, I can't wait for the next update.

[Mnster]

Well Jim a made the five and a half hour drive to MN. It was a smooth drive in the little Yota.

Where's Jim?


He brought Rick along to show off the truck.


Jim drove with balls of steel


He let off the gas and the truck touched back down and skided to the right.


Never seen such a big gay looking smile on Rick's face after that small hill. But, Jim was all business.




Driver cam





This hill was alot steeper then it looks, look at the trees in the backround for reference.

Told you it was steep.


That's all the farther the Jim rig would go to. The transfer case gears were popping under the extreme torque. The torque twist was also frightening Jim a bit so he backed down.

With help from a fellow super class offroader the winch was attached in no time.




No problem for the other scale trucks.


On the other hand though, Jims truck was the only truck to make it up the Super Class bonus gate under its own power.:lol: No pics of Jims run though.
Here is the gate

[rocco79]

VERY COOL PICS! congrats on making the hardest gate!

[Traxxas_Junkee]

Nice pics.

[Procharged5.0]

That may be the funniest thing I've seen! What a riot! I love it!

Very cool man, very cool!

[Racin' Ranger1]

very sweet

[FreeRideFrosty]

I love it. Looking good. I need to behave with this new found credit card..... Really tempting to go out and get a crawler and a race ready buggy. Must resist. LoL

[FreeRideFrosty]

Also..... Ever thought of using something like VHT on RC car tires?? (Used on 1:1 cars for drag racing to almost melt the rubber.) Not sure if it would give more grip in some of the crawling situations...... (Or be considered cheating.)

[TmaxxCrap]

Looks good goodjob on getting up that gate thing