Front axle of my new truck

[Landy Man]

Can I just start my first post to this forum by saying how impressed I am with the level of modelling ability you guys have. It has actually inspired me to have a go myself, I also have loads of RC equipment which I have had stuck in my attic since I stopped racing RC cars some years ago. It's a good excuse to make use of it, you can't use it on Bit Char-Gs.
Anyway here are some pictures of my first truck, well the front axle to be precise.

If Fastboy is reading this I would be very grateful if you could let me know where you got the Landrover model as you can see from my picture it was to be my first truck too but I intended to make the shell from plasti-card. It's a Landrover 101 Forward Control if you were unsure.

[Landy Man]

Here's a bit more detail.

[killer]

:ö: very impressive!, great job man, hope to see more of your work Landy Man :cool:-æ

[fastboy]

i got the landrover kit from my local modelshop,cost around £5.
im a little busy now(getting ready for regional rc car meeting tomorrow),ill get you a pic of the box so you know what model it is and maker.

very nice front gearbox...make me one now!!!!

hehe

dave

[arch2b]

wow:eek: , how on earth did you make those? if not, where can you get them....

drooling to see what you do next!

[Landy Man]

Thanks for the comments guys. I made the gearbox on my Emco lathe. It started off as a purely turned item and then I clamped it in the cross slide and used an end-milling cutter in the chuck. I justed passed the gearbox passed the cutter and hey presto it cut the straight bits. Difficult bit was drilling the hole to get the worm in the correct position. This picture shows the various bits before assembly, the gearbox half in the top left shows part of it before I set too with a file.

Landy Man

[Landy Man]

Thanks for the comments guys. I made the gearbox on my Emco lathe. It started off as a purely turned item and then I clamped it in the cross slide and used an end-milling cutter in the chuck. I justed passed the gearbox passed the cutter and hey presto it cut the straight bits. Difficult bit was drilling the hole to get the worm in the correct position. This picture shows the various bits before assembly, the gearbox half in the top left shows part of it before I set too with a file.

Landy Man

[killer]

:ö: ei!, what happened to Landy Man?, is he doin fine?... he had a good start on his 1/87 all-wheel-drive truck and his aluminun front driving axle are amazing :cool: ... and i am still excited to see more pictures of his project ... but no update 'till now :(

-æ

[Landy Man]

Sorry Guys
Have been very busy recently on other things but have just picked up the TTTT stuff again.
Most of my delay is due to getting hold of some parts but thanks to Thorsten I am now back.
To keep you up to date I have actually downsized the gearboxes and changed the design slightly - I wasn't happy with the steering uprights. The new boxes also have pick up points for the suspension links (piano wire). I have just finished turning up the new wheels today. The center gearbox is designed and the gears sorted but I still need to make it - did I mention before it has twin motors?
I guess you will want some pictures now?

[fastboy]

well its nice to see you back landy(and know that im not on my own in england!!)

hope you get the gearbox done ok,looks nice.

i took my truck to a race meeting yesterday (1/10th offroad nationals i was racing in) and i had a crowd of people round me with jaws on the floor as i was driving it round my pit table :)

dave.

[arch2b]

fastboy,
:D glad you had some fans there....maybe there will be a few who pick up the craze.

landyman
you machine work is very impressive! please continue to post such good work.

[killer]

:ö:

Fastboy,

Where can i find a good place to shop r/c parts there in England, can you recommend a good one? ;)

thanks,
-æ

[fastboy]

why, are you coming to england??..and what parts specifically are you after..if its ttt parts then forget it,ive looked and found none.

[Landy Man]

Thanks for the comments, Fastboy/Killer if you do find a good source I would be interested too. Model railway shops seam to be the best I have found for gears and small fasteners, I have also had my eyes on some model railway buffer sets - they contain very small coil springs if you dismantle them which would probably work on a TTTT axle.

Fastboy where was the race meeting? I have been out of the 1/10 race scene for a looooooooong time if you don't count 1/10 on road and Eurocup.

I need to buy some more 0.8mm & 0.9mm drill bits right now, my front axles broke the last ones:(

Since the new gearboxes and axles are slightly different from the first one do you think I should start a new post to avoid the confusion or just carry on with this one?

[fastboy]

landy,race meeting was southport nationals 1/10th offroad buggies..im currently ranked 35th in the uk at the moment..maybe a little higher after the next one as i have a bad score to drop.

my local train shop doesnt really keep any gears small enough,they are too large and so is the price :(

my pillar drill isnt really accurate enough for sub 1mm drilling,even 1mm is pushing it so its making the front uj's hard work,however i make the cross piece in the u joint solderd rather than drilling and making a cross.

[arch2b]

that's nice work there fastboy. i have yet to make any parts that small:rolleyes:

[killer]

:ö: nice job on the u-joint! ;) -æ

[fastboy]

thanks for the appreciation..altho they arent that hard to make ,its all the mistakes you make first few tries that are annoying :)

as you can see i need slightly larger gears for the front uj,the white one is a tad too small at 12 teeth,but i cant locate anymore anywhere else except germany.

dave

[Landy Man]

Considering you are only using a pillar drill Fastboy I am most impressed, the UJs I am working on at the moment look very similar to yours, is the main shaft around 3mm?
I seem to remember from some of your pictures you are racing what looks like a Schumacher car in 1/10, is that the latest version of the CAT? If so it must be around mk10 by now, I drove one of the original short wheel base CATs and then the XLS but never got on with the ProCAT. Beginning to show my age now:)

If you are interested I have come across a place in Dorset called 'Beaver Products Company' who make very small model railway gears, assuming they still exist. The gears I bought were in a packet which looked about 20 years old. Unfortunately they are still not as small as those from tttt-parts in Germany.

Other than the worm and wheel gears in my boxes the rest are taken from pull back racers and from an old dot-matrix printer which I stripped down - if you get hold of an old one take it apart and look in the mechanism which winds the ribbon along you may find some very small gears. I measured them and they are 0.3module gears (approx 85Dp for you guys in the US) which happens to be the same as the pull back racers so they mesh correctly. The tttt-parts gears are 0.2module so these will not mesh with pull back gears.
I currently have an old VCR in the living room ready to be stripped - I am hopping for a few more gears from that. My other half would probably like to see the back of it too so it is high on my priorities.

[fastboy]

yes i was driving the cat3000 but i am concentrating on 2wd now..the new associated b4 is my drive for this year.

i have a few small gears but you need to find 2 the same size if your making a 4wd system,i will try to use the white ones i have,i can get those here in the uk reasonably cheap.

yes the axles are made of 3mm bar with a 1mm hole in the end so i can use the gears with a 1mm axle thru them.

come on get that gearbox finished and into a truck..we all wanna see how it looks before we place our orders :) :) :)

dave

[Macke]

Hi, i'm new here and i just want to say that you guys are incredible! i would never be able to build such small machines.

i've been here for a while but never bothered to post, but here i am! it's really interesting to watch the building process of these trucks!

regards, Macke

[Landy Man]

Hi Macke
Welcome to the world of tttt, I saw your post yesterday but didn't have chance to welcome you then.
Are you interested in building a truck or just curious? - that's how in got me at first but then I took the plunge and here I am some months later still working on my first
:rolleyes:

[Macke]

I'm just curious i think, but i *might* build one, my dad has 4 small servos for an RC boat that he's building, but he hasn't worked on it for at least 5 years(!) And he probably won't use them all anyway...

Darn, i just realized how much i want to build one of these :)

[sawhit4]

hey im new to. yall are incredible. i didnt notice how small these trucks really are untill i saw killers truck that was about the size of an equal pack. my draw droped to the floor. i am thinking about building a chassis and putting a motor in it but i cant afford the electronics. i posted plans and i would love it if someone would look at them and tell me what im doin right and what im doing wrong. thanks alot and i hope to see your truck finished soon Landy man