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- 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 ...
- 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...
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...
- 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!
- 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.
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.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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?
- 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...
- 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!
- 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.
I really have a soft spot for hand-brushed acrylic paint jobs.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:30 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: Hidden-Wheel Car?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1221
Re: Hidden-Wheel Car?
As soon as I start cutting wood, I'll take pics as I go.
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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 "...