What did you work on today?

[3x9rtse]

So I'm remodeling rooms in my house and changing out the old hollow doors to solid raised panel and figured do something with them , make RC shelves !!! Drill 2 3/8'' holes at corners , 2'' PVC 24'' long pieces , couplings to hold up the doors , new RC shelf !!!!

 

[Rcproponent]

Worked on my little mini truck project …

 

[3x9rtse]

Truggified / truck Typhon ???

 

[ABabyEater]

Truggified / truck Typhon ???

@CameronCodes

 

[Rcproponent]

Truggified / truck Typhon ???

Kinda… it has senton towers, Mojave arms and driveshafts. Think I’ll run typhon diffs since I won’t be running any bigger tires on it.. have the outcast and swb talion for that.

 

[Edough13]

Got the little pool we picked up all set up as it's been cooking in the high 90's all week. My fish of a daughter is definitely happy as she's already flopping around in the couple inches of water that's filled so far

 

[Lefty_Al]

Spent hours going through the garage looking for a speedway car chassis I was frankensteining... only to realise it was already mounted up under my speedway car body...... that I moved at least 3 times whilst searching.

 

[slick2500]

Spent hours going through the garage looking for a speedway car chassis I was frankensteining... only to realise it was already mounted up under my speedway car body...... that I moved at least 3 times whilst searching.

Idk how many times I will be looking around for my phone while holding my phone.


I broke my toof.

 

[slick2500]

Idk how many times I will be looking around for my phone while holding my phone.


I broke my toof.
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I broke my

This isn't the what did you break today thread. Why do I keep doing this?

 

[The_Otherside]

I worked on the African mahogany hitstick.

When I'm not RCing, I build arcade sticks.

 

[Hammer Down]

I worked on the African mahogany hitstick.

When I'm not RCing, I build arcade sticks.

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That’s a beautiful piece of wood.
Any pics of other finished projects?

 

[slick2500]

I worked on the African mahogany hitstick.

When I'm not RCing, I build arcade sticks.

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What is that?

 

[The_Otherside]

That’s a beautiful piece of wood.
Any pics of other finished projects?

I don't get many updates from customers

Arcadexhero is my Instagram

What is that?

USB arcade sticks. Work for every game, but best for fighting games and classic arcade games.

 

[Edough13]

Got the new Granite body taped up and then put a layer of acrylic latex caulk over top. Wanted to try something different as last body I tried some thicker vinyl tape and it didn't help much at all.

 

[Rcproponent]

Some more progress

still trying to dial in the suspension… not sure which springs/shocks/fluid weight to go with … anyone with a similar setup have some insight?

v5 chassis, Mojave arms, senton towers

 

[Sphexish]

Noticed that there was a lot of the Black Dust of Death(TM) inside the power module of the waifu's Granite, despite the fact that I'd put some shims in the day we got it, which seemed to work wonders on my Typhon. So I cleaned all of that out, checked if the motor bearing was still okay, then tried to remedy the issue.

The spur gear seemed to be slowly eroding this bottom section of the case:

So I put an additional 2mm shim in the motor plate behind the bearing, raising the spur a bit more, which should hopefully fix things:

Then I checked the two bearings on the outside of the slipper clutch assembly, which must've eaten a lot of that dreaded dust...
Sure enough one of them felt extremely gritty. And it just so happened to be the one that I knew to be a complete pain to get off.

("Here comes a new challenger!")


Things turned out to be worse than I thought... That bloody bearing seriously wasn't going anywhere. Wasn't anywhere near this bad on the Typhon.
After a lot of prying and pulling and WD40 -- and cursing. Loads and loads of cursing. Like, all of the curse words -- I finally gave up, broke out the Dremel and gave the ol' metal cutting disc a spin:

(Sphexish wins. Fatality.)


Next problem: getting the new bearing back on. It (again) wouldn't budge a millimeter from this position:

("Round two. FIGHT!")


Behold! My latest, greatest creation:

("This is my hole! It was made for me!")

(Something this epic of course requires a fitting name!)

A few quick taps with the Hammer of Justice later, and the nefarious Bearingmaster was defeated.
And so, once again, the day was saved!

(... by the Powerpuff tools Girls!)

 

[AIan]

Bearing Rammer 5000 lmfao

it’s amazing what we can do with some wood and a hole
I have a solder board 200, but it’s still a prototype

 

[BashingBrian]

View attachment 153535View attachment 153536still trying to dial in the suspension… not sure which springs/shocks/fluid weight to go with … anyone with a similar setup have some insight?

v5 chassis, Mojave arms, senton towers

@Rcproponent .. go check my build thread #26 .. I have recently changed that setup though, goto end of page 3 for my latest setup

 

[Sphexish]

Bearing Rammer 5000 lmfao

it’s amazing what we can do with some wood and a hole
I have a solder board 200, but it’s still a prototype

Solder board 200, intriguing... Is it made of wood? And have you tried adding holes to your prototype?

Seriously though, I really enjoy the peripherial bits of creativity and tinkering that come with this hobby. Building ramps or little jigs for stuff, modifying parts... I'm used to digital problem-solving but it's nice to actually be doing stuff with my hands again!

 

[jondilly1974]

Noticed that there was a lot of the Black Dust of Death(TM) inside the power module of the waifu's Granite, despite the fact that I'd put some shims in the day we got it, which seemed to work wonders on my Typhon. So I cleaned all of that out, checked if the motor bearing was still okay, then tried to remedy the issue.

The spur gear seemed to be slowly eroding this bottom section of the case:

View attachment 153577


So I put an additional 2mm shim in the motor plate behind the bearing, raising the spur a bit more, which should hopefully fix things:

View attachment 153578


Then I checked the two bearings on the outside of the slipper clutch assembly, which must've eaten a lot of that dreaded dust...
Sure enough one of them felt extremely gritty. And it just so happened to be the one that I knew to be a complete pain to get off.

View attachment 153584
("Here comes a new challenger!")


Things turned out to be worse than I thought... That bloody bearing seriously wasn't going anywhere. Wasn't anywhere near this bad on the Typhon.
After a lot of prying and pulling and WD40 -- and cursing. Loads and loads of cursing. Like, all of the curse words -- I finally gave up, broke out the Dremel and gave the ol' metal cutting disc a spin:

View attachment 153591
(Sphexish wins. Fatality.)


Next problem: getting the new bearing back on. It (again) wouldn't budge a millimeter from this position:

View attachment 153593
("Round two. FIGHT!")


Behold! My latest, greatest creation:

View attachment 153595
("This is my hole! It was made for me!")

View attachment 153594
(Something this epic of course requires a fitting name!)

A few quick taps with the Hammer of Justice later, and the nefarious Bearingmaster was defeated.
And so, once again, the day was saved!

View attachment 153597
(... by the Powerpuff tools Girls!)

The Persuader is the name of my BFH