Trash6 is ready for testing!

[Pat_ranch]

Wow! This one kinda stretched my fabrication skills.
I got a regular ol' trash6 for Christmas, and loved it for snow bashing. It never really crawled how I wanted it to, though, so I kinda put it on the back burner and started hatching plans for a flatty. In the meantime I picked up a new castle copperhead and figured it would play nicely with the $20 2600kv chinesium motor I have in my spare drawer. I kinda wanted to keep it a hybrid crawler/basher since it's so fun to bash with.

Ok, it crawls well with the new setup! But I still was stuck on body mount and flatbed. Luckily I have friends in the right low places for this hobby!

Had an extra kraton shock tower kicking around- great body mount!

Some spare shock parts (who actually uses those, btw?), and a spare body mount from a notorious? drilled into the front bumper.

And a pin to hold it in the front of the grill.

And if you remove the front battery tray screws, the whole tray tips up for access.

So I had to create a tipping bed for it now.

Everything opens enough to get at the battery, motor, esc, etc.

Next I glued & screwed some zebra wood rails to the maple deck, and ran some oak crossbars

To finish, I put a maple header, and some maple slats for load stability

I'll take it for a trail/climb test tomorrow. If it survives, I'll hit the wood with some tru oil for weatherproofing.
I kinda love it already.

 

[Edough13]

That did turn out awesome, great job @Pat_ranch

 

[FatCatRC]

Looks sick.

 

[Cheez]

LOVE IT !

 

[Doom!]

Yep, I'm diggin' it!

 

[Pat_ranch]

Hit the bed with a coat of watco, but there's still.....
Something....................

Missing.....................

Stickers!

Don't mind me, the Pendleton got frisky with the stickers tonight.

that mystery ranch lid sticker looks better than I thought it would. ❤


Anyone got any taco stickers they wanna send me?

 

[Jimbobjr]

Looks nice. Love the flat bed Unimog. Put a hitch on that and you could tow a tool box, lunch or a twelve pack...
The body really holds the trx6 back. If they made a lighter sport version with more body clearance all the way around nothing would touch it.

 

[Doom!]

What about some bed rails. Maybe make them removable for versatility.

Something like this>>>

 

[Pat_ranch]

What about some bed rails. Maybe make them removable for versatility.

Something like this>>>View attachment 153112

I'll have to figger out a way to do that and keep it somewhat scale...

 

[Doom!]

Get some bass wood sheets (they cut easy, even with an Xacto) maybe make some aluminum brackets out of soda cans, and screw to the sides then slip posts onto brackets. Just a thought.

 

[Pat_ranch]

Motor heats up a little with the taco on back. I might be willing to look into a printed bed to drop the extra pound of wood...

But it's pretty! And even with the extra weight (and resulting high center of gravity), it climbs like crazy and sidehills better than you would expect. I think I'll keep it ❤