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02-03-2025, 09:26 PM
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After 10 minutes in the oven at 300 degrees F, and we have a winner....
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02-03-2025, 08:43 PM
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Zabco:
I was using the parting tool on the front side.
Regarding the gears, I'm seriously considering throwing the one remaining shortened shaft into the oven at 300 degrees F for 20 minutes. ...
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02-02-2025, 08:34 PM
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WELLLLL... things did NOT go exactly to plan, the best laid plans of mice and men - and all that crap. My very first plan was to remove the gear from the end of the axle shaft, shorten that end,...
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Truck Building Tech
01-27-2025, 02:48 AM
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I cut the existing axles with a hacksaw and took 0.3mm off the backside of the diff gears on the axles. I haven't spliced the axles back together yet, but I reassembled the differential to see if I...
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01-19-2025, 04:50 PM
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Yesterday I cleaned all of the god-awful smelling factory grease off the donor axle parts. I need to make several modifications to the axle shafts and I don't want to be smelling that crap all the...
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Truck Building Tech
01-18-2025, 12:10 AM
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Been a while since I updated this thread. The original plan for the WLToys 12428 drive axles was to shorten each 5mm OD axle about 30 mm. Turn a 13mm length of each shortened axle to a 4mm OD,...
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12-25-2024, 12:43 AM
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Christmas miracles do still happen - sorta.
Yesterday, 12/23/24, I received an odd shaped package in the mail, in it were 6 axles for WLToys 12428/12423 1/12 cars. I ordered these axles in mid...
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12-10-2024, 06:01 PM
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I "WAS" going to print out a new lower die for the U-bolt bender, so I could try my idea of using the brass tubing to protect the threads when bending the legs. My printer had other ideas though, I...
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11-25-2024, 05:13 PM
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Well, I got some parts today, my axle order arrived and I got the 2mm ID tubing I ordered.
Not my first order of axles, this was the second batch that I ordered. Surprisingly, or maybe it wasn't...
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11-24-2024, 10:31 PM
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Blender - Almost 50 years ago my first job was in maintenance in a plant that made plastic laminates of various types and thicknesses. I got some of the reject pieces before I left. I'm using a...
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11-24-2024, 03:36 AM
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A squared off U-bolt is what I'm aiming for. But.... that's gonna be on hold - at least for a little while.
Meanwhile I'm going to nominate myself for Bone-head of the Week-Month-Year. (Take...
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11-23-2024, 12:14 AM
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Zabco:
Yeah, I remember Monkey Wards. Now that you mention it, it might have been a Wards catalog store. I know a couple years later when I bought my stick welder and my band saw, THEY came...
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11-22-2024, 03:27 AM
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The 1/4-20 bolts that go through the bottom die form the outside of the U-bolt legs. I just counter-sunk the end of the slot in the top die and that helps to form the inner radius of the U-bolt...
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11-20-2024, 10:35 PM
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Well, my shipment of donor axles failed to arrive. Apparently the US Postal Service lost my order, they were the last to touch it on October 29th - after that the order apparently disappeared into...
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Truck Building Tech
11-08-2024, 11:49 PM
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OK, the second verse is ALMOST a repeat of the first, and I've got pictures to prove it.
This is the parts of the first die. ...
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Truck Building Tech
11-08-2024, 01:35 AM
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Well, the first attempt was an outstanding failure, which was not unexpected. It produced a rounded, sorta U-shaped object - whose legs were within a millimeter of being equal. However, I was...
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11-07-2024, 01:57 AM
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I had a brain fart a little while ago, I came up with a way to bend 2mm U-bolts for the springs using 3D printed dies. Right now it's just a paper sketch. Tomorrow, I'll get it in CAD and print the...
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11-06-2024, 12:14 AM
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OK, as promised we'll open up the picture page. (Who besides me still remembers the jingle for Picture Pages?)...
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Truck Building Tech
11-05-2024, 02:29 AM
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Progress is being made, even if I don't have any pretty pictures to prove it. (I forgot to get a snapshot of the suspension assembly before I called it a day.) I will try to update the assembly...
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11-03-2024, 05:20 PM
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I've given up on making a functional suspension assembly - at least for now. It seems like every time I add another part to the assembly, and try to constrain that part, it breaks a half a dozen...
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11-02-2024, 04:49 PM
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Zabco:
I found about the sub-assemblies after about the 2nd or 3rd time my suspension assembly tried self-destructing the axle on me. I tried to pivot the axle around the equalizer beam pivot,...
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10-31-2024, 11:29 PM
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For the last couple of days I've been playing with assemblies in Alibre. So far I'm batting 1000, I've managed to break every one of them that I've tried - but I'm learning from my mistakes. That...
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10-27-2024, 10:55 PM
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ddmckee54
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My digital angle gage is hard on batteries too, and it goes through three 2032's at one time.
I'm waiting on more parts to arrive, I was looking for a replacement pinion so I could build my...
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Truck Building Tech
10-24-2024, 04:18 PM
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ddmckee54
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I love the little 4" caliper that I got at HF years ago, but I think I just got lucky with it. I need a caliper that I can trust for a reliable measurement over 4", so I bought an 8" Mitutoyo last...
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Truck Building Tech
10-23-2024, 10:20 PM
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ddmckee54
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I don't use the calipers for any critical measurements. Harbor Freight WOULD have replaced them, but nobody within 100 miles had any 8" calipers to replace them.
I tried using a spline in Alibre...
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