RC10gt MIP Shiny CVD - Any way to repair?

[GreenBar0n]

The last time I ran my RC10gt, decades ago, a rock or something got in between the bone and the arm, and did this:


Stretched out the pin hole, and cracked the bell:


Can this be welded or repaired?

[Dadio]

Well anything can be repaired but my feeling here is it's beyond economic repair , it would take very specialist kit and skills to weld the crack , weld up the holes and redrill them then polish up and electroplating , can't see change from £200 if not more , sorry .

[GreenBar0n]

Thanks for the reply. The MIP Shiny bone appears to be polished steel alloy of some sort, the inside of the bell is the same color, just not polished to a shine.

If the crack was able to be welded, perhaps the grinding and polishing it would bring back the original Shiny look. Only one hole got stretched.

I do still have the original RC10gt MIP black CVD's that came with the kit, that require the smaller bearing carrier which I also have.

I'm going to shelve this RC10gt and I want to put it away in a completed manner. Was hoping to use the Shiny CVD kit, but don't want to put that cracked bone back in and leave it that way.

Thanks again.

[JosephS]

The last time I ran my RC10gt, decades ago, a rock or something got in between the bone and the arm, and did this:


Stretched out the pin hole, and cracked the bell:


Can this be welded or repaired?

Try some long set epoxy with a solid de-grease first. That may work as well use rings to keep the pins in.


A replacement bone, non-shiny, isn't that expensive on ebay.

As well the t4/sc10 bones are easier to find and are close enough to run even though they are longer

[GreenBar0n]

That's great news to hear there is a cross-compatible MIP Shiny bone that would work. The one in the pics above is 87mm, and I've not found another that close yet.

I do still have some of the black CVD's still.

I believe that's a kit original on the left that would've come with this:


-and then (4) MIP CVD's, with the larger axles, one being the cracked Shiny bone on the right.


I bought the only MIP Shiny CVD replacement bone you can find on eBay. They were listed as basically NOS MIP, and the auction said vintage, but you could see the lathe-cut rings in it, and the bell looked like it might not have the right clearance for the larger axle stub. I sent it back.

[GreenBar0n]

Turns out a user here on RC10Talk had the exact Shiny CVD bone I was looking for, I won't have to try and repair the cracked one now.

Thanks so much!