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Forum: Truck Building Tech 02-03-2025, 09:26 PM
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Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

After 10 minutes in the oven at 300 degrees F, and we have a winner....
Forum: Truck Building Tech 02-03-2025, 08:43 PM
Replies: 71
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Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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. ...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 02-02-2025, 08:34 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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,...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 01-27-2025, 02:48 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 01-19-2025, 04:50 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 01-18-2025, 12:10 AM
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Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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,...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 12-25-2024, 12:43 AM
Replies: 71
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Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 12-10-2024, 06:01 PM
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Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-25-2024, 05:13 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-24-2024, 10:31 PM
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Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-24-2024, 03:36 AM
Replies: 71
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Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-23-2024, 12:14 AM
Replies: 71
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Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-22-2024, 03:27 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-20-2024, 10:35 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-08-2024, 11:49 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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. ...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-08-2024, 01:35 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-07-2024, 01:57 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-06-2024, 12:14 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

OK, as promised we'll open up the picture page. (Who besides me still remembers the jingle for Picture Pages?)...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-05-2024, 02:29 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-03-2024, 05:20 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-02-2024, 04:49 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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,...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 10-31-2024, 11:29 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 10-27-2024, 10:55 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 10-24-2024, 04:18 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 10-23-2024, 10:20 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 72
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

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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