vwjuice wrote:That's so sweet it makes mother nature piss her pantsuit.
That is incredibly cool. How did you bend the the frame rails like that? I've been trying to figure out how to bend carbon fiber.
The Matrix Scorpion:
Do not try and bend the carbon fibre. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth, that it is not the carbon fibre that bends, it is only yourself.
vwjuice wrote:That's so sweet it makes mother nature piss her pantsuit.
That is incredibly cool. How did you bend the the frame rails like that? I've been trying to figure out how to bend carbon fiber.
The best way to bend carbon fibre is doing it before adding the epoxi resin that makes the laminate complete
Seriously, I tried once to apply heat from a heat gun to a bit of Glass Fibre circuit board with the ambition to breakform it into a chassitub for a Tamiya Hot Shot. No cigarr... I was 14 years old and had only managed to achieve a burnt bit of ex-plastic and a magnificent cloud of bad fumes in my friends garage. His dad then informed me about the differece between thermo plastics and Epoxis. A cured laminate will only burn but never bend with heat. No tub for me but a lesson learnt. I did a lot of those learnings in the 80'ies.
But yeah, if you want to make a bent bit of Carbon Fibre; you've got to laminate it into that shape in a mould (if ever so simple), there is no other way.
Thermo plastics and thermo harders you mean, but otherwise you're fully right.
There're some composites available now that combine carbon fibers with a thermo plastic resin.
These can be heated in an oven and shaped (to some extent) while still hot. Nice, but how do you handle material so hot at home?
Which ultima gears are you using? Ultima RB, RB5?
I've done a full trailing arm suspension car using scorpion suspension parts and found the biggest limiter to be the very short length of the arms.
I think if they'd used longer arms and kept the angle changes smaller for the same up-down travel of the wheels, it could have worked a lot better.
Retro - did you do the rail lamination yourself? I've been considering a little experimentation with FG and/or CF with epoxy resin. Just not sure what to do to keep the mold from fixing to the work? paste wax?
I'm thinking that with the extra grunt that I'm going to be putting through my Turbo Scorpion drivetrain, I should look at putting the old gears in a bag and finding replacements of the same pitch or maybe even replacing with a different...
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Not at the moment mate. What did you want to know?
I received this Scorpion 3 weeks ago. Apart from tub being painted while mounted on the chassis, it was in a very nice mechanical condition.
Judging by the lach of scratches on the tub, it has not seen any dirt.
The spurgear gear was mounted in the...
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Hey Guys, new to the forums. What a beautiful car! I am in the process of a Tomahawk restoration (God help me) and this forum always came up in my Google searches. Now I see why, there are some great looking restorations here! Sorry to resurrect an...
My newest Scorpion Project, which shows the attempt at widening the front and give it a bit more strength.
Thanks to gomachv for the rear shockmount :D
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Thanks, Phin! I will have to do a bit of research and see the diff 380 motor specs. I want to use some of my vintage receivers and servo with the brushless ESC that I will buy with the 380. Going to go with the smaller servo that is used with 1/12...
Here is a chassis I have been working on, came to a standstill when I tried to mount my Parma shocks, the front shocks are too long.
Had a talk with Lars, seems I need to make taller shock mounts for the Parma's as he did with his Parma Scorpion....
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RC front sway bar hey? Don't know that I've heard of this. I bastard iced an Optima rear sway bar for my Turbo Scorpion. I'll post photos in due course. I would be interested to find a bespoke front bar for the Scorpion series though.
I have to admit that i have lost myself in hop-ups for the COX/Kyosho Scorpion . This time it’s all about hop-ups from Parma. Parma didn’t manufacture that many parts just for the Scorpion; most of the parts fit many other cars to. The parts I have...
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This thread still amazes me so much I just had to bump it up. I can imagine the many hours you've searched for those Parma parts :o
Some of you that have been around awhile might recognize this one. I have been looking for a Scorpion for quite some time but up to now I have not been able to find one that didn't need a complete restoration and/or was priced astronomically. I saw...
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I've seen this on the forum before..., & on eBay a short time ago...
If it looks as good in person as the it did in the prior photos, I'd say you picked up a pretty sweet ride.
Very cool Scorpion, one of my all time favorites. :D