Huh? Since when does increasing surface area by removing material also increase stiffness? Please explain this.Vermin wrote:Increases the surface area.Jay Dub wrote:How is milling (removing material) supposed to stiffen the chassis exactly?
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- Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:36 am
- Forum: RC10 Buggy Forum
- Topic: Worlds Chassis Questions
- Replies: 20
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Re: Worlds Chassis Questions
- Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:11 pm
- Forum: RC10 Buggy Forum
- Topic: Help With Chassis Repair
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1205
Re: Help With Chassis Repair
By the way, these three cars appear to all be early or mid production Edinger RC10s. Things like Goodyear tires, non-beefy steering blocks, spring cups without slots, ball cups without hexes, etc, etc, etc are on these cars. I therefore really want to find a way to straighten the bent tubs since rep...
- Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:51 pm
- Forum: RC10 Buggy Forum
- Topic: Worlds Chassis Questions
- Replies: 20
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Worlds Chassis Questions
OK ... I have two RC10 Worlds Cars. One is a restored all black car, and one is an "in progress" white and black car. This brings me to a few questions: 1) What was the point of the milled sections in the chassis? 2) Was the Worlds chassis really made of a stronger and/or thicker aluminum?...
- Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:37 pm
- Forum: RC10 Buggy Forum
- Topic: Help With Chassis Repair
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1205
Help With Chassis Repair
I just picked up three used RC10s last night. After inspecting them more closely today, it would seem that each car has a bent (curved sort of like a banana) chassis. Has anyone ever tried straightening the aluminum tubs before? I already pulled the cars apart, but I can't figure out where I need to...
- Tue Jun 19, 2012 2:02 am
- Forum: RC10 Buggy Forum
- Topic: Black & gold custom...
- Replies: 62
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Re: One last gold custom...
Wow! That looks amazing.
Are the inner rear hinge pins from a regular RC10 rather than a Worlds Car? They look too long in that last picture.
Are the inner rear hinge pins from a regular RC10 rather than a Worlds Car? They look too long in that last picture.
- Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:38 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic / Chit-Chat
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 7
- Views: 857
Re: Hello
Of course they can always be added. LOL!scr8p wrote:thank god for that......ChisaiKuso wrote: There are so few smilies to choose from.
- Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:21 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic / Chit-Chat
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 7
- Views: 857
Re: Hello
I'm actually just playing with the functions of this board at the moment. There are so few smilies to choose from.Charlie don't surf wrote:What are you trying to upload?
- Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:09 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic / Chit-Chat
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 7
- Views: 857
Re: Hello
Image test:
(a T4 body that a friend painted for me)
(a T4 body that a friend painted for me)
- Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:07 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic / Chit-Chat
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 7
- Views: 857
- Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:06 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic / Chit-Chat
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 7
- Views: 857
Hello
Hello all, I'm new to this board (or maybe I had just been away for too long and my account got deleted). Some of you might recognize my screen name from the past and from other R/C related boards. I know that I already recognized at least a few names while I was poking around as a guest the past tw...