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when i got my ebay beater a couple weeks ago, it has a composite craft nose plate mounted to the bottom of the chassis to support the cracked main chassis. skip ahead to 2 days ago. i won an auction with 2 chassis on ebay. both trailing arm chassis. the one chassis is an andy's, the other, i wasn't sure. the one i was unsure of had a nose plate mounted on it, and is full of holes. so, anyways, i decided to try and mount the c.c. noseplate on to this chassis. this is what i got so far. hopefully i'll have time this week after work to bond the 2 together. i'm also going to fill all of the misc. holes in the front, and redrill new ones later. i hope it works out, but if not, oh well. i tried.

last night after work, i got it bonded together. also, filled all of the screwed up holes. today after work, i got the bonding sanded down and finished up. just need to drill the new servo holes. i am very surprised how strong it is. i had my doubts whether it would work or not.

Wow, looks good. What did you use to bond them?

i used 3M Automix panel bonding adhesive. we use it at the shop, depending on the job, for replacing door skins, around the inner lip, before cripping the skin around, and 1/4 panels. 3M says it's just as strong as welding the panel on. we had a car come back, that we had put a 1/4 on before, and it was rear ended the same way again. the bonding did not let go at all. so, i guess they're right.

That looks like an excelent job of fixing your chassis

Wow, now that's some impressive work.

yep congratulations Scr8p, again an amazing repair job, it seems you can't consider trashing any RC10 part, well for me it would be a shame too now, why don't you change your pseudo for Goldfingers

Wow , yesterday when I saw the parts roughly cut together I was a little sceptical this would work but I kept my fingers crossed. Then today I checked the thread and was amazed , that's an incredible repair, well done for saving a vintage part.

thanks guys. i definately have a hard time trowing stuff away, so to speak. i'm just glad it worked out. i got to figure out what i want to do with the finish on it. so that you can't see the repair.

ok. now i'm done with it. i sprayed some black basecoat on it, and a couple coats of lacquer clear. i then sanded it with some 1500 grit paper to get most of the imperfections out of it. there's still some in it, but i can live with them. then i went over it with some 3000 grit paper, and that was it. i didn't want it to shiny. over all, i think it turned out pretty good.

That is awsome scr8p! Very, very nice work!

Nice work scr8p... I can appreciate your squeezing every penny out of the $20 beater. Makes it that much nicer.

thanks guys. i'm definately please with how it turned out. now i got another chassis to build up. as if i didn't have enough already.

it really looks like new and has a black anodized touch that is way cool, maybe the nicest repair job I've ever seen

Damn son, where'd you buy that sweet chassis, it looks awesome?

I am unbelievably impressed it looks so new. Thanks for the blow by blow tips and how to's its great to learn this stuff.

Thanks for sharing

Cheers

Ed