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Father and Son SCX24 Deadbolts

Did the transmission flip and RexRacer’s LCG parts on Dad’s SCX24 done last night, even used a section of cut off driveshaft from the flip to lock out the servo saver for now too!


 
Did a couple more free cosmetic tweaks today after lunch and showing Dad how the servo saver lock out now works.

Last posted earlier, I cut the fake lights and hoop off the rollbar and reinstalled the bar those were attached to upside down, which gives it a bit of a scowl too.



I was looking at the back of the cage today and to be honest, never cared for how that cage work between the rearmost down tubes, so I just cut them off!





Now they’re done for now and have matching cages!



We may have to do something to differentiate the two more now, other than mine being extra blindy due to the extra lights in the grill and Dad’s still using a stock servo and saver, they are currently identical........



 
vinceherman said:
What did you go with?
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The Surpass 2204-1400kV outrunner motors and Furitek Lizard ESCs, one with and one without the Bluetooth adapter.

https://www.amazon.com/Goolsky-Orig...ocphy=9021553&hvtargid=pla-648170725129&psc=1

https://furitek.com/products/combo-...-brushless-esc-for-axial-scx24-with-bluetooth

https://furitek.com/products/furitek-lizard-20a

Then we ordered the basic DX3 radios so we could use a smaller Rx with all the room those motors will be taking up.
https://www.horizonhobby.com/produc...-transmitter-with-sr315-receiver/SPM2340.html

To go with those, I also ordered 2 of these,
https://www.horizonhobby.com/product/0.5m-spur-gear-conversion-axial-scx24/HRASXTF328M05.html

2 of these
https://www.ebay.com/itm/383068090176

And this in the car in reinforced material,

https://www.shapeways.com/product/7Y352MQEU/scx24-2fm-rc-surpass-motor-mounts-x2

Also got 2 sets of these while I was ordering too!

https://www.shapeways.com/product/9...-set-for-deadbolt?optionId=112548588&li=shops
 
Mounting hardware. I did not see mounting hardware in the list. Each motor takes 3 M3 12mm bolts. I use 14mm with a washer.
You will really like this setup. Most of the ones I have installed were with the 12T pinion. I have just started experimenting with a 15T pinion and I am pretty sure I like it more.
 
vinceherman said:
Mounting hardware. I did not see mounting hardware in the list. Each motor takes 3 M3 12mm bolts. I use 14mm with a washer.
You will really like this setup. Most of the ones I have installed were with the 12T pinion. I have just started experimenting with a 15T pinion and I am pretty sure I like it more.
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Oh, forgot about the motor screws, so thanks for reminding me! I was beginning to think it had to be some sort of M3, seems like at least half the people I see on YouTube talking about these don't have much of any R/C experience and are pulling screws out of random kits to see what might fit and don't know what they have. Luckily, I have enough M3 screws in different sizes laying around and an Ace Hardware that starts at M3 and goes bigger around 5 min drive from here if what I have isn't right that screws won't be an issue for the rigs!



Pinion wise, I went with what appeared to be available when I was looking yesterday and it was close to what was mentioned in a different thread as well.



My Dad is looking forward to this new set up since he is still learning how to drive with the pistol style radios and is old enough that it's not coming easily to him, so he wants that ability to get it to just crrreeeeep up and over while I'm looking for the grunt and longer motor life a brushless would offer.
 
Picked this back up while waiting on the last of my outrunner conversion parts for the trucks.
Here’s the half I posted the other day with some extra obstacles added.


Now here’s the other half that I started Saturday night, the tunnel section keys into the random looking pile of foam in the middle on the one side. Nothing crazy and I’m planning on filling in some areas with spackle, I’m still debating on putting plaster cloth on it, but I do have a couple cans of the stone texture paints that will get laid onto it as a top finish.




And finally, the two sections joined together to see how it looks all together.
 
Took mine, post Brushless and DX3swap out after a Doctor’s appointment today!







Both this one and Dad’s SCX24 have been converted too, plus finally have the Mod19RC rock sliders after a shipping fiasco with UPS and the USPS.
 
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Haven’t run either of these trucks or my Microshark build in a while, so while sitting at my desk at work talking calls Thursday, I got a brilliant idea, why not combine parts of my SCX24 with my Microshark and make an outrunner equipped, Brushless and 4WS Microshark!
So after I got home and had dinner, I got to work

And got this far by the time I had to go to bed for work the next morning, had the front axle from my deadbolt swapped into the back of the Microshark, modified the ESC/Rx plate to clear the servo, played musical driveshafts since I had to flip the transmission because of the outrunner, then hooked up the electronics, but just had them laying there.


Friday after work, going to the gym, then having dinner, I got back into it and had it running fairly quick, but was a PITA to work the TX and my iPhone to take this video.


Then by about 1am or so on Saturday morning, I had it reassembled, just without the interior or gas tank/cooler!




Have yet to get on anything to test it’s crawling capability yet, but it does seem to drive pretty good so far. I just have to tell people to ignore that red staining on the roof panel……. I was drilling the pilot hole for the notch in it for the antenna, and managed to stab myself in the tip of my left index finger and now can’t get the blood off the paint���� Which kinda sucks because I managed to cut myself between the right index finger and thumb with the leather tag on the back of a “new” pair of jeans while on lunch Friday…..
 
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