Big Dog's Muzzle
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Posted 18 July 2006 - 12:08 AM
With all of this talk and after seeing Tore's latest big hunting dog I guess I better get to work. This frame may look the same but it has all of the little things I think are working for my driving style. Rails and their placement. The length of the rail stiffening bars between the rails from each end of the frame. The weight of the pans, nose piece, and motor bracket assembly. The .015" taper of the center section. It all sounds like alot of frame BS but one must try to decide what they think works for them. This for me has always been trial and error. Mr. Toad dropped by and was fired up to muzzle the dog.
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Posted 18 July 2006 - 01:28 AM
Hi, Mike.
Noticed the stout guide tongue extension and wire-tied drill blank front axle. That, plus the milled bracket makes for one strong chassis! How we gonna catch you now? You won't even break!
Ken Miles Smiles, 8)
Noticed the stout guide tongue extension and wire-tied drill blank front axle. That, plus the milled bracket makes for one strong chassis! How we gonna catch you now? You won't even break!
Ken Miles Smiles, 8)
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Posted 18 July 2006 - 03:44 AM
I have only a one-word discription....
BULLET-PROOF !!! 8)
Very impressive, Mr. Steube... :up:
Let's see what the Swede has up his sleeve!
Good racing!
BULLET-PROOF !!! 8)
Very impressive, Mr. Steube... :up:
Let's see what the Swede has up his sleeve!
Good racing!
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Posted 18 July 2006 - 08:26 AM
Mike, another nice job in progress! 
Are you making those brass guide tongues (pay attention Allen ) or are they a bought item at BP? And are your front axles from 3/32" piano wire or something else such are drill rod? I notice how you keep moving rod locations around on your frames but do you ever play with different rod diameters? Be sure to post photos when it's complete, :up:
Are you making those brass guide tongues (pay attention Allen ) or are they a bought item at BP? And are your front axles from 3/32" piano wire or something else such are drill rod? I notice how you keep moving rod locations around on your frames but do you ever play with different rod diameters? Be sure to post photos when it's complete, :up:
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Posted 18 July 2006 - 08:58 AM
You must be getting old and blind, Mike. Hell, even I can see the bloody stump of tie wire hanging off the rt. front.........
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Posted 18 July 2006 - 09:32 AM
Tom,
That is what we call at Team Checkpoint, "Literary License".
That is what we call at Team Checkpoint, "Literary License".
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Posted 18 July 2006 - 09:45 AM
Thanks, everyone. Bill, I'm sticking with the 1/16th bronze rod for the rails for now. The guide tongue is hand made; I bent the over the counter one last race. It took a hard hit to do bend it though. The front axle is 3/32" piano wire, no problems yet. Tom, I wait until I'm finished to do the final sanoing up work. I won't spend too much time with the polish work. One rider trip into the wall could end this frame's life. It's PDL and Anderson's fault that I'm bulletproofing this frame. They race so punched, on the RE, maxed out, full tilt, etc., etc., etc. This requires that I have to drive over my head to try to keep up. As any racer knows, when you're over your head you're gonna crash! More later.
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Posted 18 July 2006 - 12:11 PM
OK, Hansen get your soggynorthwesthasbeenass down here and come play with the rest of us. It's a heck of a lot more fun than most of the races you paid to go to just to be humiliated in public. At least, it was for me.
Geez, everybody's a critic! Criticizing Steube, a slotcar demigod, when will the heresy stop? :roll:
Geez, everybody's a critic! Criticizing Steube, a slotcar demigod, when will the heresy stop? :roll:
The light at the end of the tunnel is almost always a train.
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Posted 18 July 2006 - 10:32 PM
Installed the muzzle pans and did a little clean up. Tore, are ya gittin' worried yet? Probably use a standard bite bar. More later. Full time day jobs suck!
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Posted 18 July 2006 - 11:30 PM
Steube Wrote;
Amazing what we do to keep living indoors!Full time day jobs suck!
The light at the end of the tunnel is almost always a train.
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Posted 19 July 2006 - 04:05 AM
Ah, Master Builder... :snooty: ...newest Hardbody chassis is truly a thing of beauty... I am certain that Big Dog is watching & waiting... :naughty: ... Ah, but Big Dog, you know you're worried, yes? ... and so goes ever onward, the road to slot car chassis success...
Lowly grasshopper politely bows, and leaves the room... quietly... :roll:
... and so goes ever onward, the road to slot car chassis success...Lowly grasshopper politely bows, and leaves the room... quietly... :roll:
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Posted 19 July 2006 - 10:59 PM
Done, I think. I made an attempt to clean up the solder joints on the bat pan down stops and they look like crap in the pics. In real life they don't look bad; the pics seem to magnify everything. Oh, well, they won't break easily. I've had a feeling while building this one that it's gonna' jet.
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 12:08 AM
Purdy... just like MY new 4 rail "Mee-seal".
(isn't that how you say it? No :? Oh, whatever...:roll: )
(isn't that how you say it? No :? Oh, whatever...:roll: )
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 03:46 AM
As usual, another piece of artwork, built for racing.... :roll:
Sano, Master Builder.... that's all I need to say about it... sano! :up:
Good racing!
Sano, Master Builder.... that's all I need to say about it... sano! :up:
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 08:10 AM
Bill, I prefurr JK Products 3/32nd extra-long drill blanks part # JK5507 [eliminates all the chirping and squeaking sounds the Toadster's cars make]Mike, another nice job in progress!
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 08:20 AM
Hey, Mike, I notice a third hinge pivot up front. Cool idea, huh? :up:
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 09:05 AM
I noticed that 3rd hinge on a Pete Von Ahrens' chassis... :|
Once again, great minds think alike! ...
Good racing!
Once again, great minds think alike! ...
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 09:38 AM
Thanks, everyone. I used that 3rd hinge a lot back in the day. I thought about putting a bumper bar on the nose piece to protect the front of the pans but I ran out of building gas. Mr. Toad was too tired to go on also. We use to bulletproof the front end of our cars a lot in the day. A single 23 or 24 motor went a lot faster and the cars were heavier, results: harder wall blasts.
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 09:43 AM
I actually own an early Froggy chassis with the 3rd hinge. Mike rebuilt it for me some time ago, and I still have it oiled up in a baggy.Thanks, everyone. I used that 3rd hinge a lot back in the day. I thought about putting a bumper bar on the nose piece to protect the front of the pans but I ran out of building gas. Mr. Toad was too tired to go on also. We use to bulletproof the front end of our cars a lot in the day. A single 23 or 24 motor went a lot faster and the cars were heavier, results: harder wall blasts.
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 10:24 AM
Nice, Mike.
Just what are the rules for this class?
Just what are the rules for this class?
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 02:34 PM
So that's why his cars are so slimepit.I actually own an early Froggy chassis with the 3rd hinge. Mike rebuilt it for me some time ago, and I still have it oiled up in a baggy.Thanks, everyone. I used that 3rd hinge a lot back in the day. I thought about putting a bumper bar on the nose piece to protect the front of the pans but I ran out of building gas. Mr. Toad was too tired to go on also. We use to bulletproof the front end of our cars a lot in the day. A single 23 or 24 motor went a lot faster and the cars were heavier, results: harder wall blasts.
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 02:37 PM
The very slimepit cars that have won the first three Can-Am races...
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 02:38 PM
Steube wrote;
Let's see a 23 and no airdams... could be fast. Want me to build you a 23 or 24 to refresh your memory?A single 23 or 24 motor went a lot faster and the cars were heavier, results: harder wall blasts.
The light at the end of the tunnel is almost always a train.
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 03:01 PM
All right, Tom! :up:Nice, Mike.
Just what are the rules for this class?
Fer all you newbies, Hansen raced Semi-Pro right here in So-Cal in the '60s, and later became a master scratchbuilder. S.O. Watt I believe is the last person to break the world record in Group 7 with a 100% hand-made springsteel frame of his own design no less. He set record 21 years ago turning 2.460 on a blue king in Seattle, I believe . . .
OK, now park that drag Bug, Tom, and get back to scratchbuilding! :up:
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