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Originally Posted by ddmckee54
Blender:
Got a couple of questions for you. What are you using for the steering knuckle pivots on your axles? It looks like a socket head cap screw of some sort? Do those pivots just thread into the resin housings, or do you have some type of insert in there?
Don
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Stock losi mini rock crawler hardware is a flanged metal bushing and a unique socket head cap screw with M2 threads, but a 3mm diameter shank. The screw cinches the flanged bushing to the housing and the knuckle swings on the bushing. Bolt does these into the housing. No insert. Works fine, but I can't get replacement parts anymore. Grabbed some bronze rod to turn some spares, but haven't started.
Anything that keeps us out of trouble is time well spent.
Can kind of see the bushing under the screw head and the flange near the axle housing.
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Originally Posted by skeeter
FANTASTIC build!
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Thanks skeeter. I've been slacking the last few weeks, but I am still going, at a slow pace.
Got the gears on the servo horns. Took a few tries to drill/tap the first one
The 2mm stainless steel tie rods are a bit too hard to thread. Thought I bought annealed, but maybe not. I need to remake the batch in 2mm carbon steel since I have some on hand.
Also cut down the leimbach motor mount. I like their design, but it wastes a long of length. I think I cut 6mm from it. Now it's limited only by a different shaft coupler inside.
