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Ideally you would sandblast the base and then paint/laquer it in some way but I am sure an orbital sander with some high grade paper on it would give a similar result.
Looking good though, simple design and it should be quite robust. Those GR01's will be locked down solid.
It looks really good but i'd actually be worried about the Gimsons been held in too sturdy as i believe some builders have had problems with shocks going straight into the gearbox as there's little/no flex to absorb some of the impact
Yeah I guess so. If they break, I'll deal with it then and there. Nothing much can really be done about it now.
Thanks for the suggestions Alex, in the end I just hit it with a sanding block and some elbow grease. Still a little ways to go.
http://i.imgur.com/o7KPOAm.jpg
Also gearbox is semi together.
http://i.imgur.com/81M62DX.jpg
you can see gear and pulley related things happening here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnK0lmS8j3U
Got the gears to mesh fairly well. Gave it a blast on small 3s. I'm really pleased that this has somehow worked.
Harry, why did you choose an inrunner rather than an outrunner?
Surely an outrunner would have would have more torque
Because high speed. This meant I could really gear it down, I have like a 10:1 or so reduction in this so the end speed is reasonable (still too fast imo) and the weapon itself has plenty of torque which should give me respectable spin up. Inrunner also is more enclosed so I don't have to think so much about crap getting into the motor so much. Not that this is much of a problem?
turn the brake of the esc before you do it any damage… looking good though! looking forward to a spinup test
Did some more work, got it driving. Loving the TZ85. Just got to play around with the mixer to get it to behave. Speed isn't too dreadful either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mojz...ature=youtu.be
http://i.imgur.com/JBftKBW.jpg
Weight is looking okay too.
looking good... got enough weight for something to protect the wheels then? similar to this;
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...72/Hazard5.jpg
I want to. Got some ti sheet that would do nice. Not sure how to make sure the hinges are manly enough though.