30YrsL8r

I got "5 x 1M M3 A2 STAINLESS STEEL THREADED BAR ROD WITH 10 NUTS AND 10 WASHERS" for £9.99, delivered, off ebay and used it to make up steering rods with standard rod ends: http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=71175#entry509849

Collector vs. speculator.

M38 and Sand Scorcher have different size wheels.

Buy a WW2 shell for £16 off ebay, cut off the corner/wheel guard and bond them onto your M38 shell then resell the WW2 for a few quid or keep it in your spares box.

Apparently Royal Mail x-rays stuff; my post office keeps asking me if my parcel contains batteries and I asked them how they would know if someone fibbed....

+1

Argos' web site can't cope with demand - what a fail.

With all the talk of Willy today, and it being the 31st of October, I thought I'd share my Zombie Willy (destined to drive my Frankenscorcher) with you. It's a work in progress, but that's true of most of my RC! Happy Halloween!

...and she has shown us more Willy than anyone else here.

Well, that didn't take long to turn up some Sony-bashing.

What could trigger this: Exclusions. You alone are responsible for any customs duties, taxes, surcharges, fines, penalties, or other charges which may be imposed on you by customs or tax officials after a GSP Item has successfully cleared customs and been delivered to (or made available for pickup at) the delivery address specified by you.

Just started series 2 of The Walking Dead. Enjoyed series one. This is an improvement.

....standing up.

Check out episode 5 of series 1 of The Walking Dead for a Winnibago reference...

Another work of art. Congratulations.

Fantastic result. Well done

Can't wait to see _anything_

I'm starting to think this project is a figment of bromvw's imagination.....

I can adjust the maximum steering positions from my transmitter, mud4fun, so that shouldn't be a problem. The steering geometry may well be sub-optimal; I thought about it for a minute or two before getting on with it. My theory was that if the servo arm and the steering drop arm were perpendicular when the steering was centred, the difference (if any) would be minimal. We'll see; if it's a problem then I can turn the arm into the axle and, if necessary, move the servo our slightly to accommodate it. I might fill the diffs with thick grease rather than lock them, at least to start with, and I'm intending to have this same axle set up at the rear, too. I'm assuming 4-wheel steering will improve manoeuvrability!

Thanks for the input, folks. Probably should have updated this thread a bit more: I struck a deal with skip665 and a rattly box of bits arrived on Saturday (a good news story for myHermes). It contained almost enough bits to build two front gearboxes/axles and a rear gearbox (my underused TL01 has donated some parts to allow me to make all three), as well as most of the parts for a Thunder Dragon-type buggy (a rear-wheel drive one, at least, that I will probably donate to my nephew eventually) I've used the front hubs from the TL01 (turned the C-hubs upside down to move the axles out a mm or two and turned the steering arms to the front) to make my first axle. I fabricated upper arms from 3mm threaded rod (£9.99 for 5 x 1m lengths, delivered) and used the same stuff to make a drag-link steering setup. I mounted the servo on the front using the same rod, running through the holes on the gearbox for the upper arms. At the moment the gearbox is still completely stock, in case this project doesn't work out. Like mud4fun (thanks for the comment - appreciate your input), I'm also getting binding on the drive shafts at full lock. I don't have the o-rings in yet, though. However, adding them is going to make the slight negative camber even worse. Anyway, this is where the project is up to:

My son and I ran our DT-02 and DT-01 buggies at the beach yesterday and, whilst it was fun, I kept on wishing I'd gotten the Frankenscorcher running and taken that.

This kid (?) has a microprocessor-controlled, four-motor crawler using the motors directly as stub axles. And far too much time on his hands, obviously. Isn't there a street corner he needs to be hanging out on?

I'm wondering about two rear axles for MoA and use the front hubs on them to get 4WS. I wont get the gearing down from using the output of the rear gearbox on the input to the front gearboxes, but I could use high turn motors instead, I suppose.

School playing field or astroturf pitch? Anyone a school governor?

Looks like I wasn't alone in riding my bike around that area - the whole section is now officially given over to mountain bikes! Shame - it would have been perfect, what with all the ramps they've built. I wandered around briefly but, because this is a great area for MTB riders, the surrounding hills have lots of active MTB routes on them, too. On the way back to my car I did find a couple of spots that looked like they'd be good for crawlers and, when I was almost at the road, there was an open area spotted with trees that would make a decent buggy course.