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by Vitamin K
Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:22 pm
Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
Topic: wheel wax
Replies: 26
Views: 10464

Re: wheel wax

For graphite, I don't know that a wheel wax is terribly important. If you're using graphite, I would just burnish it into the bores with a polished metal rod and leave it at that. For oil, you want some kind of oil-phobic coating on the bores (as I'm sure you know), but I've never heard of anybody ...
by Vitamin K
Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:13 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Wheel Identification?
Replies: 9
Views: 376

Re: Wheel Identification?

That is an old-style "Shape-and-Race" kit, used by Christian Service Brigade for their cars.

The newer wheels are lighter, but the kits use the same axles.

Gotta be honest, I am not super-impressed by the quality of the newer wheels, either...
by Vitamin K
Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:32 am
Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Photos
Topic: French Fries anyone !
Replies: 31
Views: 1745

Re: French Fries anyone !

Way to go, Charlie!
by Vitamin K
Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:39 am
Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
Topic: Making BSA Stock Grooved Axles
Replies: 11
Views: 440

Re: Making BSA Stock Grooved Axles

These are so clean, so pretty.

We don't actually remove the crimp marks anymore on our axles (well, we haven't run BSA kits in a while), but I do love the way these look.
by Vitamin K
Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:08 am
Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
Topic: Hidden-Wheel Car?
Replies: 20
Views: 1221

Re: Hidden-Wheel Car?

Well, I hit a fatal flaw in my design, in that I totally somehow didn't register that having curved pieces around the wheels was going to be a no-go, because the top needs to drop down over the wheels from above. Duh. Well, I'm gonna have to scrap this build for now, because our race is on Saturday....
by Vitamin K
Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:26 am
Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
Topic: Hidden-Wheel Car?
Replies: 20
Views: 1221

Re: Hidden-Wheel Car?

Finally got started here. We'll see if my energy holds out to actually get something built. Paper templates: https://i.imgur.com/n4ReCN7l.jpeg Traced onto the balsa...won't this be fun to cut? https://i.imgur.com/BLfT4Frl.jpeg So much fun on the scrollsaw. https://i.imgur.com/Ox3FSMMl.jpeg Base body...
by Vitamin K
Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:13 am
Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Photos
Topic: French Fries anyone !
Replies: 31
Views: 1745

Re: French Fries anyone !

Sweet! Are you guys doing a graphite lube, or oil?
by Vitamin K
Sun Feb 18, 2024 6:41 pm
Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Photos
Topic: French Fries anyone !
Replies: 31
Views: 1745

Re: French Fries anyone !

I wish the wheel truing and shaving would have went a little better however.. ( I forgot to sharpen the blade up) I put a new blade in that I had stuck away.. I'm going to try reworking the wheels to see if i can get the run out down some more.. I'm happy at 3 thousands out but 2 thousands out woul...
by Vitamin K
Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:12 pm
Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Photos
Topic: French Fries anyone !
Replies: 31
Views: 1745

Re: French Fries anyone !

That's some really nice axle work!
by Vitamin K
Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:01 am
Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Photos
Topic: French Fries anyone !
Replies: 31
Views: 1745

Re: French Fries anyone !

This is so awesome. Love it.

I really have a soft spot for hand-brushed acrylic paint jobs.
by Vitamin K
Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:30 pm
Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
Topic: Hidden-Wheel Car?
Replies: 20
Views: 1221

Re: Hidden-Wheel Car?

whodathunkit wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:36 pm I want to see pics of the build VK .
As soon as I start cutting wood, I'll take pics as I go.
by Vitamin K
Tue Feb 13, 2024 6:34 am
Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
Topic: Hidden-Wheel Car?
Replies: 20
Views: 1221

Re: Hidden-Wheel Car?

Here's my current progress, just fooling around in Inkscape. http://i.imgur.com/xWUWsDh.png The black lines are projected pine pieces, the blue ones are balsa structures and the purple is thin wood laminate. Going to have to add more balsa structure I think, and also figure out the top view. Should ...
by Vitamin K
Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:15 am
Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
Topic: Hidden-Wheel Car?
Replies: 20
Views: 1221

Re: Hidden-Wheel Car?

Has anyone ever built/attempted a car with the wheels almost completely encased by the fenders? I usually like to build something rather silly for the adult division of our races, so I though I might take a stab at this. VK, Andy Holzer's 1962 AMC Metropolitan build. https://www.maximum-velocity.co...
by Vitamin K
Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:30 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Treadmill
Replies: 8
Views: 669

Re: Treadmill

The guy who runs the StocKar Derby for our church's CSB group is a big proponent of the treadmill, both for testing drift behavior and for looking for wheel wobble. I can sort of see some limited utility in this, but the texture of a typical treadmill track sort of concerns me.
by Vitamin K
Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:30 am
Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
Topic: Hidden-Wheel Car?
Replies: 20
Views: 1221

Re: Hidden-Wheel Car?

I have some ideas and I'm roughing out the design, but if anyone's done something like this and has suggestions or gotchas, please chime in. :D :wow: We've tried nothing quite so exotic, but I suppose that it would be constructed like an old-fashioned body-on-chassis , where the chassis is a "...