SCX24 Solid Brass High Clearance Links! How To Make Your Own
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2020
- Making some solid brass high clearance links with very little time and material. These are gonna make a HUGE difference!
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I actually just bought some of the exact brass for scx24 links but I'm gonna try to soften the brass and hammer and shape out completely brass links with the end in brass too. I think it'll turn out pretty nice.
Great videos....love the knowledge and creativity!!!....Suggestion, if you spin those high clearance links around 180 and put the bent end closer to the axle you might like it better and get better performance. It will tuck the link up in the chassis a little more and give better angles coming off your skid plate as long as there is no binding....Please keep up the great work and look very much forward to more videos....Thanks!!
Hey Matt. Thanks for this vid. Great idea for adding clearance and low weight! Having a couple pins in a scrap of plywood to hold the ball ends in the exact spot as stock would help with glue-up accuracy. Just wax the pins and put a piece of masking tape or wax paper under the glue joint so it doesn't stick to the plywood. :) Probably get away with a smaller dowel pin then for attaching the ball end to the grass rod. Rough sanded smaller brass rod would be plenty strong. That epoxy is doing most of the work. :)
Yeah that’s the way to do it for sure!!! Awesome idea!
@@2fmrc Thanks. The cool thing as well is you can use one pin as the base for one end of all different arm lengths. Then just add other holes in different locations to put the second pin for the various arm lengths. Makes it an all-in-one jig. And that epoxy sands pretty nice, if you want to get Gucci on it LOL! There's a good jig design I have for making accurate, repeatable bends. I bend 3/16 to 3/4" solid steel round bar with it by hand, but it could be scaled down easily for this application. But it require pictures and/or a video with commentary to describe. Maybe I'll figure out how to do a YT video one of these days as I hate to see folks struggle doing things, when there's an easy solution. I just finished binging EXPIOWA vid's. Now on to yours. Definitely inspired to get one of these and build a course. :)
@@2fmrc Giving it some more thought, if you have a drill press or even a drill clamped in a vice, you could chuck up the brass rod and run the drill. With a file or better, a Dremel tool and stone bit, you could hillbilly lathe the rod ends down to size and insert them directly into the ball ends. this would save trying to drill a tiny hole in the rod and save it being off center. Just go slow and use your calipers to gauge. I've done 1/4" to 3/4" steel rod, chucked up in my drill press and machined it down with an angle grinder then swapped to a file or sand paper. If you're patient and careful, you can get some very fine toleranced results. Only thing is you'd have to do it before bending and you'd need to have it cut to your finished length. Anyway, just a bit of coffee shop engineering if you're inclined to play with it. ;)
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Bert
Brass being soft, you could maybe even just use only the brass rod, tap the ends flat and drill the hole through them, avoid drilling lengthwise, and the threaded rod and plastic ends altogether. or even do it with aluminum rod and again hammer or file it down to an eyelet.
I actually ended up doing this to make rear links. So far they're working fine.
Looking good!
I need to make another set of links. Made some with 1/8" brass tube, 2-56, and shapeways link ends.
I like how you used the stock links.
Next links i make, will be stainless steel tube, as it doesn't stick to sharp rocks like brass does, and no need to drill with 2-56 all the way through tube.
Thanks for the tutorial, always like to see others with.
"2-56 all the way threw tube" where do you get that?
I thought you were going to say you put the brass rod inside the tube, bent it, and you could glue it all together for extra reinforcement. You could use a pointed punch or nail to punch a point into each side to prevent it from rotating.
Yeah awesome upgrade, appreciate you sharing
Been an RC guy for many years and know how costly it can be, having a money pit toy. So to have the same effect, make an angled jig to your required angle and heat up the stock plastic arms and push them against the jig with a tool or glove (don't burn yourself) and hold them down until they cool down and you will get the same clearance effect. Paint them silver for more show effect but more so have fun with your stock SCX24 and keep doing home mods!
Yep! It’ll work! Only thing I hate about doing that with the stock plastic links is you lose a little length. Not much though. Good stuff for sure!
@@2fmrc On smaller scale rigs, its all in the tiny details, thats what makes r/c such an amazing, never ending, hobby. Never stop tinkering.
Cool man...I bet you could have used a tap for the all thread then they'd be adjustable and probably easier to replace. Very nice look man! Thanks for the vid!
I think I'm close to the 90th subscriber! Keep the videos coming! Good work 👍
Doug Hendrickson thank you so much for the sub! I really appreciate every single one. Let me know if there is something you’d like to see a video on!
You the man Matt!
Just got my first scx24 picked up a B-17 Betty today I'm looking for brass links this was the only place I found them I need a pair my brother
Great job!
Hi there. Love your videos. Thank you for taking time to make them. I just have a suggestion that i would love and my friends as well. Do you mind posting in the description the part list of things you use on your video and where you got them?
That would be awesome!
Thank you!
Digital Alien PR hey! Thanks so much for watching and I definitely appreciate the feedback. Links in the description is definitely something I need to get better at remembering to do. One reason I don’t is sometimes it’s really hard to find some of the items for these scx24s. I’m going to try to get better at this though! I really appreciate y’all watching!
@@2fmrc thanks for responding. I like how you mod your SCX24. Keep up the good work brother!!!
Digital Alien PR will do! Hopefully I have a new build coming up soon! I’ve had a lot going on lately and haven’t been able to dive too hard into anything lol
Yes
I'd love to have a set of those. May have to order some extra links and make myself a set.
They make a huge difference!
How do you measure the length of the link with the bend? Are just as long as the stock?
Nice, I'm definitely making a set of these. How did you figure out measurements to cut the brass link to size? If so do you remember the mm on it for the rear links on the C10? Wasn't sure if these needed to have a low tolerance or if they could be eyeballed. Thanks!
If you cut extra, you could trim it down before fitting the last end on.
Awesome work man, I think modding these rigs is almost as much fun as wheeling them! I wanna weight bias in the front, do you think I could just heat up the back links w/ a hairdryer and bend them? Or would they be too short then?
A lot of people heat them and bend them very slightly. It will shorten the wheelbase a bit but if you just do a tiny bend you won’t really notice the 1mm or so loss.
This is what modelling is about 👍
Ukmudlover I have just as much or more fun doing this type stuff with them as I do running them!
@@2fmrc same here I just wish I had a bit more time to make stuff. Can't beat a custom. Gonna have to pick up some bits asap.
Your rig is looking good 👌
Ukmudlover thanks! Yeah I’m the same way with time. I’ve got 2 young ones who want all my time so I’m a bit restricted on what I can get done sometimes lol. I still haven’t finished the links. Just have the tears on the C10 🤦🏻♂️
@@2fmrc same here. Can't wait until I can upgrade the kids electric ride on haha
Nice! Although im probably too clumsy to get it done myself :D What are those tires? I got a SCX24 but im so confused to which tires and rims work together. I always hear 1". But, at least in Europe, I cant seem to find decently priced Rims to mount them on..
Tim Ebert rc4wd are usually the wheels and tires that I use. Not sure how their availability is in Europe but they are pretty nice. The larger tires on the red rig in the video are the rc4wd scramblers and the ones on the c10 are their rock creeper. I really like both. The scramblers are BIG so just know they are a lot for something like the C10 but work really well on a tube chassis type build etc.
Any chance you would be willing to make a set of solid high clearance links I could purchase? I lost my shop and am now limited as to what I can make. I would even be interested in your old sleeved links if you would consider. Much appreciated -Doug
Doug Hendrickson I actually need to finish making them for all of my trucks soon. Once I get them looking a bit better I wouldn’t mind making a set for a decent price. They aren’t anything beautiful but seem to work so far. I broke all of the bits I had in that size so I’ve gotta pick up a new bit before I can finish them lol
Brother, another great video! Keep em coming
Jerome Reyes thanks so much! I gotta get some running vids in soon but I just keep finding more mods to do 😂
So how long did you end up with for best length of the brass fo make the best arch?
I’d have to measure them. I just made sure I arched them first. Then cut them so that once I installed the ends they would be the same length as the stocks.
Ok thanks. Gonna try with just tubes. Hard to bend by hand. But, thank you for the idea.
Where did you get the copper rod
I picked mine up at my closest hobby shop that’s about an hour away but I’ve seen it at hobby lobby also!
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