What's the best aftermarket chassis for the Wild Dagger/Twin Detonator That Can Hold TWO batteries?

[jimbo858]

What's the best aftermarket chassis for the Wild Dagger/Twin Detonator

That Can Hold TWO batteries? I'm thinking about getting me either a

Wild Dagger/Twin Detonator. But, I want to be able to use TWO battery

packs on it.  Anyone have any links or a good source to source

these from?  Better yet, can anyone tell me how to make a custom

chassis myself?  I've seen a few custom made chassis' in various

people's showrooms.  But, where does one get the aluminum and how

do they cut it so cleanly?

[TWINSET]

Check out Biggus' carbon Detonator http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.a...1175&id=280

It'll take 2 batteries.

He got it from me, but I don't know who made it, sorry []

When I get bits made, the manufacturers supply the material, but if you want to do a homer, have a look thru Yellow Pages for aluminium suppliers, or try google.

You only really need 3mm  plate, it's fairly stiff, and a couple of braces across any large gaps between gearboxes will stiffen it up nice

 

 

[jimbo858]

YES! that's the one that I saw that caused me to post this question! too bad you don't know who made it.

I'll try looking online for suppliers of sheet aluminum.  But,

what tools does everyone here use to cut and fabricate the chassises

with?

[minijosh]

Isn't that an RC Guy chassis?  I know I've seen this carbon fiber one and a full alloy one too. Don't remember but just ask google for rc guy.

[TWINSET]

Couldn't find any mention of a Dagger etc. chassis on their site, www.rcguy.com but Josh is right, the did used to make one

As for manufacturing, I usually use a Dutchman with a laser[]

I've not tried hand-fabbing, I don't have the patience, and used to have access to CNC machinery   [8o|]

Sorry about the carbon chassis, I got it from a guy here, hopefully he'll see this and enlighten us all!

 

 

 

 

 

[Wild_Trial]

I found this... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=7362676876

Ask this seller hi prob. have that chassi

[jimbo858]

thanks I'll send them an email. But, does anyone know of any aluminum versions?

[alu-cutter]

hi

i did make a alu version off dagger chassis

http://rcpics.rc-racingcars.com/diversen/g...7_IMG.sized.jpg

[OCD]

Try these guys:

Tamiya Aluminum Parts

I just ordered the KBF shock towers recently, but haven't gotten them yet. (I will post pictures when I do)

[jimbo858]

Yeah, I saw their website. BUT, I also saw this message on their homepage...

-----------------

Below

is a release that we have sent out to as many people/forums/businesses that

we could think of.

 

 

Effective

May 24, 2005, R2C2 will be on a long term hiatus. We have experienced

so much during the last couple of years, and learned a whole lot. One

thing that we did learn is that the RC community is jam packed with a

whole lot of really cool guys (and girls) and we owe you all for our decent

run as a startup RC company.

Over

the course of the last two years, both Steve and myself have watched as

new products came out, and others fizzled. We have a sort of inside scoop

on why the ones fizzled out did so.

We

have both seen this hobby of ours change drastically, more so on a personal

level. Our hobby became one that turned in to more work than fun. We have

had some customer service issues, we know, and definitely no shortage

of shipping problems. We have, inadvertently made some people unhappy

with us, and we do apologize for it. We do want to stress that we were

never really in this to get rich, but more to serve the hobby in a way

that was not being served at the time. In the beginning, that is exactly

what was happening. But that seems to have changed.

Lack

of funding, problems with shipping, unpredictable manufacturing environments,

as well as questionable demand forecasts have forced us to rethink our

direction, and consider the (temporary?) end of R2C2.

We

have found out that we are a pretty well known name in the RC community,

and that fact alone has made us extremely proud. The first line of this

release is not “Going out of business†for a reason. We are

going to leave for a while, as the R2C2 entity, but we are hoping very

much to be back in the not so distant future. You can surely expect to

see Steve and Myself hanging around the forums and discussion boards,

and will likely see more of us, now that we will be more focused on our

Hobby, as opposed to the business.

To

all of the people that helped us on the way; customers, suppliers, and

those of you who have encouraged us as well as talked to us about our

product line, we thank you…VERY MUCH. We hope to see you around,

and will be looking forward to chatting from the level that got to be

more and more attractive as we went along…as hobbyists.

With

that, thank you all for a great run, it was a lot of fun, and don’t

surprised if in a little while you see the name R2C2 crop back up and

hopefully, be a much larger going concern.

To

anybody that currently has orders with R2C2, we will definitely still

be honoring them, as well as holding a liquidation sale from our website,

and with the permission from the forum administrators, in the buy/sell/trade

sections of the forum.

Regards,

Buck

buck@r2-c2.com

steve@r2-c2.com

[OCD]

OH Dear...

Guess I should look at the ENTIRE website before making an order!

(Why do they maintain a website for a defunct business anyhow!?)

Thanks for pointing this out, Jimbo. Hopefully I can get a refund, but

when I tried to contact them at the provided addresses, I got my mail

bounced back...[:'(]

It's a shame they're not around anymore.  All of their designs

seem to be very well thought out.  I saw some of the KBF shock

towers up on the 'bay a couple of weeks ago and they went for  $60

US- Guess I should've jumped on them when I had the chance...

[jozza]

I liked the look of the aluminum chassis from here too, shame they have stopped producing them. http://rcdaggerweb.com/clyde/wiki/index.php?page_id=33 might be useful for ideas for producing a carbon chassis.

[Hillman666]

 Not a twin battery chassis but a nice carbon fibre one can be found here -

www.xtremercracing.com

Look under products and then Tamiya.

Its availiable in blue and silver carbon too!