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Forum: Truck Building Tech 05-17-2025, 01:11 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

The Jeep Rubicon and the Subaru WRX are still available with a stick. Up until '23 the Jeep Renegade was available, but then they phased out the Renegade in the states. I had 169,000 miles on my...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 05-16-2025, 01:54 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Remember that saying, "May you live in interesting times"?

Well, it's been an interesting couple of weeks - my car got totaled. Nobody got hurt, and no charges were filed, but I've still gotta...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 04-27-2025, 11:07 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

I had wanted a resin printer for years, but had a tough time deciding to pull the trigger on one - couldn't justify the cost. Then I stumbled on an Ebay certified refurbished Halot Mage S for under...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 04-26-2025, 11:48 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Lesu makes a driveshaft with a 40-45mm range, but I've only got 37mm between the center axle and the rear axle. If I move the center axle forward it will center the tires better in the fender. ...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 04-12-2025, 03:41 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Sometimes I think Quality Control is a totally unknown concept in certain parts of the far-east. Some of the stuff is high quality, but there are a LOT of times when what you actually get is a kit...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 04-09-2025, 11:17 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

I have found out that I needed to slightly modify my Frankendiff pinion housing design. The hole for the drive shaft's drive pin wouldn't line up with the hole in the pinion shaft. I must have...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 04-08-2025, 06:49 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

One difference that I did notice between the 2 different sets of drive shafts I ordered is that one of the manufacturers wasn't particularly careful about getting the U-joints clocked properly. One...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 04-08-2025, 02:44 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Blender:

I sure did. Here's an Ebay listing with 5mm, 4mm, 3mm, and 2mm drive shafts - but they call them "steering shafts".
Drive shafts...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 04-05-2025, 03:55 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

OK, I've found out that I'm going to have to revisit my chassis design a little. So far I've been sticking to the measurements taken off the Bruder MAN mixer, but that's gonna have to change a...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-28-2025, 06:04 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Wilf on MEM got a flexible pushrod to work using SolidEdge 2025. I don't think my version of Alibre has the brains, or the brawn to handle it.

Anywho...I updated the 3D model of the chassis to...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-17-2025, 09:15 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

It doesn't really matter about the "flexible" setting, that was just one of those wild-haired ideas that smack me in the head once in a while - kinda like Gibbs and DiNozzo.
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-17-2025, 12:20 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

No problem.

A gentleman on HMEM suggested that if I lowered the cross-slide read-head I would free up that back corner of the cross-slide for normal use. I already had everything printed by that...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-15-2025, 03:53 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Further development on the steer axle is on hold for a week or so. The motor/2-speed gearbox, that I initially wanted to power the model with, uses a single 370 sized motor and has 3mm output...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-15-2025, 03:03 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

At one time I was considering putting the carriage and cross-slide scales parallel to each other. I was thinking of using something like a Sullivan Gold-N-Rod to link the cross-slide to the scale,...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-14-2025, 01:52 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Yes they can be trimmed. I cut about 3" off the original scales with a hacksaw. That got the job done, but the epoxy/glass board the actual scale's on was tough to cut. I used an angle grinder and...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-13-2025, 02:34 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

The scales upgrade on the Sherline is mostly complete. Here's what things look like from the front....
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-08-2025, 06:52 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

The new Igaging EZ-View Plus scales use a different protocol than their older DigiMag scales did. I know Yuri is working on it but I'm not sure if he's got his Touch DRO working with that protocol...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-06-2025, 10:57 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

For the last couple of days I've been working on Sherline mods. One of the mods I did earlier was to add some cheap Chinese scales with remote readouts to the carriage and cross slide, that was a...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-04-2025, 11:11 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

I know that Blender, Frizzen and I have all posted over on the Semi Truck and Construction Equipment forum of RCGroups. I'd never heard of the Scale Builders Guild until now, I just registered...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-03-2025, 10:11 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

I've got Design Pro V22, so I don't know about Atom. In Design Pro if you right click on the assembly in the Design Explorer, you get a drop down menu - Make Flexible is one of the options in that...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-03-2025, 02:08 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Constraining things to a plane is what I do - sometimes.

I placed an axis in the centerline of the axle bores, and I've got an axis on the pinion shaft centerline for each axle. The origin for...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-02-2025, 12:24 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

I think that I just might be starting to get a handle on this Alibre assembly crap. ...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 02-28-2025, 02:36 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

That phase will probably start when I actually begin bolting pieces to the frame rails. Instead of just making making pretty pictures on the monitor.
Forum: Truck Building Tech 02-28-2025, 01:21 AM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Never-mind, I figured it out. Somehow I had bumped the Zoom up to 200%.

I'm still fighting with Alibre's assemblies, trying to figure out what I can and cannot do with it. (I think part of the...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 02-27-2025, 07:41 PM
Replies: 127
Views: 198,079
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Somehow today I did something stupid. I must have changed the font size or something for this site because the text on this website is now huge. But it's only on this website, any other website...
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