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#1 Pablo

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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 ……..

 

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Posted 23 April 2019 - 01:06 PM

Muchos cucarachas aqui :)

 

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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

 

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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.


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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

 

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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.


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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   :crazy:

 

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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

 

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Post protectors pressed on and secured with microdots of CA, hoods soldered to holders, mounting holes tapped 2-56, wire terminals tinned

 

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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.....


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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

 

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Posted 01 May 2019 - 07:39 PM

Chunk and tongue set, first set of main rails complete

 

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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?


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Posted 02 May 2019 - 07:45 AM

It's the bottom of my Precision block. The taper of the rails is about 2 degrees


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Posted 03 May 2019 - 09:43 PM

Mike Steube said you never want to solder a wire to a rod along it's entire length. My secondary main rails are plated Swiss wire spaced outwards with brass rod pieces at the rear, tapered to the front, no bends

 

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Posted 04 May 2019 - 08:09 PM

ISO hinge tubes trimmed and .047 reinforcement wires added for strength

 

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.039 reinforcement/redundancy brace wire on the chunk

 

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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

 

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ISO wires hinged using DRS .063 keepers cross connected at the rear with .039 tinned wire

 

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Posted 07 May 2019 - 05:42 PM

.047 uprights and another rod spaced out .047.

.055 bite bar is connected only to the twin hinged ISO rails and left long for now

 

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Posted 08 May 2019 - 06:50 PM

Freedom of movement is good, but it needs to be controlled (later)  :)

 

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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

 

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Posted 09 May 2019 - 06:29 PM

Thats a cool chassis Pablo.



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Posted 10 May 2019 - 05:15 PM

Thanks Kim :)

By making the uprights exactly 90 degrees, the front axle assembly drops right in, perfect fit, perfect alignment

 

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Time for an SOS scrub and an overnight tumble

 

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Posted 11 May 2019 - 07:04 AM

Hi Paul,

I would want the car minus motor. I have a Havlicek motor that I would send for installation and track testing.

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Posted 11 May 2019 - 07:47 AM

Looks like I found a buyer  :)  Phil, I'll send you a PM.

Here is the completed chassis:

 

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Posted 11 May 2019 - 07:48 AM

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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  :dance3:

 

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Parma "Big Momma" braid (it's Mother's Day, ya know  :) ), Parma "old skool" brass clips, and a Koford bronze 10 thou spacer 

 

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