Magnetic body mounts, anybody have some input on them

[Crash Cramer]

I NEED your help understanding what I will be hacking off if I choose to put magnetic body mounts on a car or five of mine. I have looked and they seem rather cheap(undder $10) on Ebay and I have seen fancy swiveling square headed and round headed mounts, but I just don't want to drill holes in some very beautiful bodies that I have a need to get onto a chassis or three that I have built. IF you can help me out in understanding how much I need to trim/screw, alter the original body posts, that would be great. I only ask this as it would seem the posts I want to alter are not that easy to find in replacement order, so I don't want to ruin the only ones I have here for an "experiment"

Thank you in advance.

[Ciano67]

I also have interest in this topic.

[Truck Norris]

I can help with this - a few questions first though:

What chassis are you using?

Are they touring car/road bodies? (I guess the answer to the above will answer this)

Will you be running the cars or just displaying them?

[Crash Cramer]

Thanks Chuck, errrrr Truck, sorry, typing slip.

I am using the M04 chassis that I posted up in the What I did today post a day or so ago. I have 2 that need the set up it is a road body, don't want to divulge the make, but let's say for the argument right now, it is the yellow Alfa you see on a post also in the same section. Eliminating the body holes would seemingly need me to hack the posts down to near nothing to come up with a squat tire/fender gap. I was looking at THESE

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4pcs-N10078-Magnetic-Stealth-Invisible-Body-Post-Mount-for-1-10-AXIAL-RC-Car-/282371786683?hash=item41beab87bb:g:ybgAAOSw3v5Yrtmd

For price alone, but if cheap is a bad idea, then I understand you get what you pay for.

I would like to drive the car, but I realize it would be really slow and only on parade versus any real hard driving as the body is too hard to come by another at a reasonable price, unless the maker starts making another run of them, and I don't see that happening any time soon.

[Truck Norris]

Not sure if this will work on an M04 but this is how I do it on a TT-02:

I drill out the front bumper mounts then the body posts will fit from underneath:

This gives more clearance for the magnetic mounts compared to mounting on the shock towers. Handily, this position is identical to the higher spec chassis that use bumper based body mounts.

As all mine are just for display I don't bother with the magnets any more, and instead use the upper bumper mount with the holes enlarged slightly and then glued to the inside of the shell:

This provides a nice tolerance fit that holds the body in position, yet doesn't take much effort to remove. It will stand up to gentle running and costs nothing, as it uses only parts from the chassis kit.

Due to the Pushmi-Pullyu design of the TT-02 chassis this works for both front and rear mounts. As the rear mounts are at the back of the chassis now then it's usually not necessary to make any visible holes in the cockpit set (if fitted) as would normally be the case with the shock tower mounted posts.

On the Impreza chassis in the first pic I'm using magnets on the front and this method on the rear. You can raise and lower the body by adjusting the position of the clips that the posts rest on.

If you wanted, this method could be refined further so the posts are attached to the body and clipped on from underneath, like the TamTech-Gear cars.

[Crash Cramer]

Hmm, I don't think the M04 has a pushmi-pullya type work on it as body length is different at times and shape of the "nose" is different on a few bodies as well. My Miata isn't even touching the homemade foam bumper I made. I have seen those rectangle mag mounts too, they are near TRIPLE the price as the round ones I shot a link to. I am guessing I need to lay my hands on one set of these and look at the options the different chassis surfaces may present, heck, I might even find that slivers of sheet metal soft glued to the body and powerful little magnets hard glued to the chassis could work out just as well as a fancy multi angle bodypost mount.

[guitarman]

I bought a set of the magnetic body mounts for my Pajero.

There is a picture of them in the Postman brought me page 374 half way down.

I to don't want unsightly posts sticking through the body so this is an ideal alternative.

Alan

 

[Crash Cramer]

Alan, thanks, will go searching over there.

[Crash Cramer]

Those are precisely the ones I have my eyes on, PM me when you figure on how they are going to work for you. Please