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Originally Posted by scoyle
Chris,
Setting aside how jealous I am that you have access to the professional tools  would you have any thoughts or pointers on how someone could go about doing this without work access to tools etc.
By that I mean CAD packages and milling tools etc. that would allow someone to design and make one-off type bulkheads and carbon fibre parts? I have got stuff from fibrelite before but did not realise that they would do one-off parts for people - will check their site for formats that they take for designs. |
Hello Stephen, I see this idea is still spinning away in your head!
I have a friend who signed up for a night class for pretty much unlimited access to a CNC mill. Check out the FE colleges for similar courses.
I will say from my own recent experiences of kit-bashing a custom 2wd buggy, is to have a central idea to build the the project around - mine was/is that modern lipos are lighter than NiMh cells and could thus be offset almost entirely by the weight of the motor. Trying to emulate what others have already done is likely to just result in an inferior copy.
I think layout ideas for TCs using stick packs have been exhausted - Perhaps saddles would be the way to go - say, sat one in front of the other right in the middle of the chassis, with the motor placed centrally behind and other electrics in front, and belt routed like an E4?
Another idea might be shocks - I recall seeing a TA05 on eBay where the springs had been replaced with a torsion bar. The shocks were still there, sans springs.