This GENES WORLD body will be painted blue, WB 3 7/8, GL 3/4, front wheel width 2 3/4, rear wheel width 2 7/8, clearance .032 front/.063 rear.
REHCO motor bracket, ISO jaildoor chassis, etc. More details to follow ……..
Posted 22 April 2019 - 08:03 PM
This GENES WORLD body will be painted blue, WB 3 7/8, GL 3/4, front wheel width 2 3/4, rear wheel width 2 7/8, clearance .032 front/.063 rear.
REHCO motor bracket, ISO jaildoor chassis, etc. More details to follow ……..
Paul Wolcott
Posted 23 April 2019 - 01:06 PM
Muchos cucarachas aqui
Aclamaciones
Bill Botjer
Faster then, wiser now.
The most dangerous form of ignorance is not knowing that you don't know anything!
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Posted 23 April 2019 - 07:01 PM
Gracias Parts gathering and planning begins.
-Motor will be a 16D Mabuchi can with a new vintage SKF ball bearing, Cox endbell, modern magnets, and I have several armature choices
-Rehco inline motor bracket with Slick 7 (1/8) racing bushings and .812 OD Mid-America tan colored wheels
-Parma 1/2 OD O-ring front wheels on a straight solid 1/16 wire axle ISO hinged via Swiss .063 plated wires to the bracket
-Parma "The Blade" standard thickness flag and Big Momma braids on a steel tongue
Paul Wolcott
Posted 23 April 2019 - 08:45 PM
The can w./rectangular holes appears to be Slotworks/Trinity. In one of dc-65x's builds, he used some brass heatsink plates on a stock Mabuchi endbell. The same build may have used a larger endbell bushing too.
Posted 23 April 2019 - 09:22 PM
Can paint and blind bushing removed; hole drilled out to accept the SKF BB.
The notches up top served a function in 1966 but they don't now, so I sliced them off.
Endbell hardware was in good condition and only needed some TLC.
I'll tap the mounting holes 2-56 and solder the brush holders to the hoods tomorrow
Paul Wolcott
Posted 23 April 2019 - 10:32 PM
I had thought the can looked like a modern 16D, but I was wrong. Those magnet stops bent into the cans can also be flattened out with needle nose pliers & soldered smooth for can painting.
Posted 24 April 2019 - 08:34 PM
I like the magnet stops, I use them sometimes, Bill
A freshly zapped and matched set of D race magnets gifted from da Cheater will work, with a .580 slug.
Armature will be a custom wound 16D Pro Slot endbell drive long stack .540 OD
SKF can BB soldered in place and EB clearanced.
It's a tight fit but I've done this before, Bunky
Paul Wolcott
Posted 25 April 2019 - 06:04 PM
Cox EB trivia:
-brush holders are a hair tighter than others so I couldn't use a 3/32 square tube to place them - I used a bent piece of aluminum round tube
-brush hoods are angled in such a way it makes it easy to solder them to the holders
-modern post protectors need to be shortened about 10 thou
-bushing is about 4.1 mm, not the standard Mabuchi 3.6-ish mm
Brush holders needed to be trimmed to clear the big modern commutator.
Stock they give .188 gap so I shaved each about 10 thou
Post protectors pressed on and secured with microdots of CA, hoods soldered to holders, mounting holes tapped 2-56, wire terminals tinned
Paul Wolcott
Posted 27 April 2019 - 11:30 AM
The arm I selected ended up not having enough meat on the EB side of the shaft.
So the setup goes off to Havlicek for a .540 OD EB drive 29 wire custom arm.....
Paul Wolcott
Posted 29 April 2019 - 06:03 PM
Chassis beginnings:
-ISO tube connected to the wire braces at the rear Jairus Watson style, left long to be trimmed later
-Slick 7 bushings set to make the rear clear 1/16 with 13/16 OD wheels
-.047 Swiss plated wire redundancy brace connects the first set of main .063 rod rails and strengthen the bracket face
-tapered rails form the center section, La Cucaracha style
-steel tongue will be connected to a tapered 1/16 brass chunk
-.032 rod up front is just a temporary connector for the rails until the chunk is secured
Paul Wolcott
Posted 01 May 2019 - 09:52 PM
Is the photo above from sitting on the bottom of your RGEO jig, or is it some other block? Have you thought of fogging your blue paint with some purple?
Posted 02 May 2019 - 07:45 AM
It's the bottom of my Precision block. The taper of the rails is about 2 degrees
Paul Wolcott
Posted 06 May 2019 - 06:50 PM
Plated Swiss front axle/wheels assembly complete, washed and set aside.
Dummy axle set in exact place, ready for uprights from the ISO wires
ISO wires hinged using DRS .063 keepers cross connected at the rear with .039 tinned wire
Paul Wolcott
Posted 09 May 2019 - 05:58 PM
ISO downstop is a straight piece of .039 wire across the tongue; upstop is the amidships .055 bite bar.
"Z" .039 wire pieces are "pan" downstops for the tilting rod body mounts.
This one has quite a bit of ISO vertical and horizontal movement, and just a hair of tilt on the rods.
Dummy axle is sliced off and uprights are cleaned/readied for the actual axle/front wheels to drop in place
Paul Wolcott
Posted 09 May 2019 - 06:29 PM
Thats a cool chassis Pablo.
Posted 11 May 2019 - 07:04 AM
Posted 12 May 2019 - 05:30 PM
Body harpooned, Koford big head pins trimmed and sharpened, Parma standard thickness flag blueprinted, O-rings installed on the Parma front wheels, "Pablo" engraving secured.
New vintage K & B flag holder/weight needed to be shaved down from .440 to .425 OD to fit and I polished it with 2,000 grit
Parma "Big Momma" braid (it's Mother's Day, ya know ), Parma "old skool" brass clips, and a Koford bronze 10 thou spacer
Paul Wolcott