Jrxt carpet racer
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Jrxt carpet racer
hello All,
Here's another one of my older cars. This was a truck I build specificaly for a local carpet oval track. The "track managers" were giving my buddy a hard time about running his truck (my old reflex 10). They said that it didn't qualify as a truck because it wasn't a conversion of a traditional truck. This got me reall pi**ed off, so I decided to build a truck that met thieir requirements...they weren't expecting this.
We called it "project X". There was nothing sinister about the name...it just so happens that I found a tiny PROJECT X decal on an old Kyosho decal sheet
Lot's of RPM parts, bunch of time hand cutting the chassis...
Regards,
highwayracer
Here's another one of my older cars. This was a truck I build specificaly for a local carpet oval track. The "track managers" were giving my buddy a hard time about running his truck (my old reflex 10). They said that it didn't qualify as a truck because it wasn't a conversion of a traditional truck. This got me reall pi**ed off, so I decided to build a truck that met thieir requirements...they weren't expecting this.
We called it "project X". There was nothing sinister about the name...it just so happens that I found a tiny PROJECT X decal on an old Kyosho decal sheet
Lot's of RPM parts, bunch of time hand cutting the chassis...
Regards,
highwayracer
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Re: Jrxt carpet racer
This car is a great example of what rc racing is all about.Using good ideas to get the advantage.It looks great and the hand made chassis looks as good as a machined one.
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Re: Jrxt carpet racer
Nothing beats a big F.U. like this to the nit pickers trying to hold you down.
Good Job.
Good Job.
Re: Jrxt carpet racer
Looks awesome! Question on the chassis.
When you made it, was it a hand drill and a band saw or is there some other technique for getting it to look so finished?
When you made it, was it a hand drill and a band saw or is there some other technique for getting it to look so finished?
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Re: Jrxt carpet racer
hello All...
Thank you all for your kind words...
As for the construction of the chassis, I used a drill press for the holes. Everything else, cutting & shaping was with a dremel tool. A cutting wheel was used for the straight lines and the general shape. The curves were done with a drum sander attachment.
That was actually a 1/8 thick sheet of circuit board material...fiberglass sandwiched by copper. I had to peel the coper layer to expose the bare fiberglass.
Regards,
highwayracer
Thank you all for your kind words...
As for the construction of the chassis, I used a drill press for the holes. Everything else, cutting & shaping was with a dremel tool. A cutting wheel was used for the straight lines and the general shape. The curves were done with a drum sander attachment.
That was actually a 1/8 thick sheet of circuit board material...fiberglass sandwiched by copper. I had to peel the coper layer to expose the bare fiberglass.
Regards,
highwayracer
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