Kenm810
07-19-2007, 05:24 PM
My youngest Son Scott loves anything to do R/C Cars, Planes or boats, one of our on going hobbies, and asked me if I would try to build something He had seen a photo of in a magazine. No plans, No drawings, No parts, No hope or idea of what I was getting into, --- Great a perfect project.
Anyway to make a long story longer one of the last of the parts we needed after 8 months of tinkering, was a set of custom motor mounts. Now I could have found someone to machine them out of aluminum, but I thought why not trying to do it myself on my Handy Dandy table top replicating CW machine. Needless to say, the CW carved some 1/4” polycarbonate plastic I had, perfect for the twin electric motor mounts; we planned to try a few test runs today, because I’m still a little worried about the short 24” by 38” isosceles wheel base in tight turns. But it’s still storming out there, maybe if and when this rain stops and it dries up a little we can make a go of it. At least I got a few photos before the clouds rolled in. We also installed new R/C frequencies to manually operate the centrifugal clutches to the drive wheels. That allows nearly unlimited rpms from the motors to the wheels, with only wheel friction and wind drag limiting its speed. It’s going to be a blast watching what happens on the straightaway runs. --- Scott just gave me one of his “a come on looks” when he saw what I was typing. I’m often guilty of thinking of him as just a kid trying to help his dad put some toy together by handing me tools. Scott is my young son as I said, but what I didn’t say is that he’s also 27 years old and has more work savvy and brains then I ever had. Scott and Jon his older brother are both fine art conservators like me, and also enjoys the work we do.
Still raining, and is getting to late today, maybe we’ll try again tomorrow.
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Anyway to make a long story longer one of the last of the parts we needed after 8 months of tinkering, was a set of custom motor mounts. Now I could have found someone to machine them out of aluminum, but I thought why not trying to do it myself on my Handy Dandy table top replicating CW machine. Needless to say, the CW carved some 1/4” polycarbonate plastic I had, perfect for the twin electric motor mounts; we planned to try a few test runs today, because I’m still a little worried about the short 24” by 38” isosceles wheel base in tight turns. But it’s still storming out there, maybe if and when this rain stops and it dries up a little we can make a go of it. At least I got a few photos before the clouds rolled in. We also installed new R/C frequencies to manually operate the centrifugal clutches to the drive wheels. That allows nearly unlimited rpms from the motors to the wheels, with only wheel friction and wind drag limiting its speed. It’s going to be a blast watching what happens on the straightaway runs. --- Scott just gave me one of his “a come on looks” when he saw what I was typing. I’m often guilty of thinking of him as just a kid trying to help his dad put some toy together by handing me tools. Scott is my young son as I said, but what I didn’t say is that he’s also 27 years old and has more work savvy and brains then I ever had. Scott and Jon his older brother are both fine art conservators like me, and also enjoys the work we do.
Still raining, and is getting to late today, maybe we’ll try again tomorrow.
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