Schuco Tobby 1:12

[rkl]

Next step, as I like to drive the Tobby sometimes, was to glue the foam tyres to the rims...the pictures below with a small explanation already shown in the Associated Onroad car thread so its a unwanted double post bit I think belongs to the buildt report of the car...

[rkl]

Next step was to true the tyres as the rear tyres (shore about 20 - 25) had small flat spots as they touches the box for the last 30 years...the front tyres (shore like "Brick" 70?) semms to be ok but should be done also....luckily the rear tyres fit perfect on the tool for the modern 1:10 scale/touring cars - the front tyres fit so&so on a small cone...should be good enough for just two tyres...

[rkl]

...the rear tyre sitting on the tyre truer - if you take a look you could see the small flt spot...

[rkl]

...let`s do it...carefully just around 2 mm in diameter...

[rkl]

...last step - round off the edges...

[rkl]

...an ready! Ok...oldschool diameter...for the real fast laps (like the modern cars) I had to cut down a few mm more...

[rkl]

...but of course a little bit more speed is ok so after the rear axle sitting already on ball bearings (no replacable bushes for the gear diff) I replace the front wheel bushings agains ball bearings...

[rkl]

...and also gave a small amount of oil to the motor bushing for that extra rpm!

[rkl]

...to come to an end with the chassis a few explanations and some last steps before the body work...

The Tobby was fitted with an 360 mabuchi style motor but Phoenix offers an insert which could be easely removed and with an additionally motor pinion (for the larger 3,14mm diameter of the motor shaft) you could easy convert to a much stronger/faster 540 Mabuchi/Johnson motor...don`t know if the speedo was strong enough for the more amps also...

[rkl]

...the Tobby also offers one hidden "speed secret" - but in another direction not for going faster

Next to the rear axle there was a small hole and you could also recognize a second pair of mounting holes for the 360 motor (this option is also only for the 360 sized motors)...

[rkl]

...some spare parts are found in the parts bag...a metall pin you had to push straight (important) in the hole...

[rkl]

...now the motor had to turn around to the left motor mount and an additional gear is mounted on the pin so motor rpms get reduced - maybe an option for real beginners or to slow the car down if you just had a small track or limited space to run or make some special exercises like parking forward/backward or you live in San Francisco and had to run the car on uphill races...I don`t know but a nice feature I think...

[rkl]

...but now getting serious...let`s charge up the small beast! Therefore the Tobby offers an extra charging socket on the speedo! I just hade to organize an old plug (thanks to the LHS) for under one euro (only plug no cables) and bulidt a charging cable...also with an additional balancer socket for the LiFe cells...

[rkl]

...and before the body work the last few pictures of the chassis...

[rkl]

Now to the last step - painting the lexan body...
Thankfully the body was already cut out and also drilled - so ist would be easy...
No it wouldn`t Thirst thing was the tyre cut outs and zhe holes doesn`t fit together - the body sits around 10mm to far towards the front against the wheels so I had to drill new holes around 10mm positioned to the back...
Second "bug": the servo horn of the speed controller servo, the linkage of the steering and the original antenna mount of the rc-box are come in contact with the body...ugly thing...as I maybay want to change my modern rc stuff against oldschool electronics I leave the antenna mount and just drill a hole in the drivers cockpit... I checked if I could change the position of the servo horns or bend the linkages but it seems to be impossible so I had to cut two ugly holes beside the drivers helmet.......