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I dont see why not? As soon as I get the other printed parts they can all get dyed.....havent decided on a color yet though.

Hey Guys,
Re-Building a blackfoot and I wanted to apply the "screw together" diff fix. I ended up buying a whole bag of the darn 2.5mm screws as I couldnt find them individually locally. If anyone else needs one let me know and Ill drop one in an envelope to you.

Strength wise, its not bad once vacuum impregnated with structural epoxy, about the same as nylon 6/6. Im interested to see how well they hold up. As a back up Im printing the original design as well. Is that impregnation commonly available ? Sounds interesting. And a pretty design too. It seems pr...

Yeah it was. Plus we have been mailing back and forth now just bench racing old cars, so thats even better!

Well I got my own answer to this.....which made it all the more interesting. I was writing back and forth with the fellow I got this stuff from, and he mentioned that he had gotten it from his friend, who was the brother of Dyane and Darryl Silva. The oval racing and speed record guys. They were wor...

Strength wise, its not bad once vacuum impregnated with structural epoxy, about the same as nylon 6/6. Im interested to see how well they hold up. As a back up Im printing the original design as well.

Pics it is.......any thoughts?

Got the first of some of the 12E parts back from the printer. My co-worker/friend used to work in the full size racing industry....and so couldnt help but modify the designs a bit. He drew up his own wheels as well, BBS style. Ill toss some pictures up if anyone is interested.

So long story short, I had gotten a dyno off ebay, and the post office decided to sit on the package for almost a month. It had become almost funny trying to figure out all the places this thing went. Anyway it finally came and after about 10 seconds of running it went poof. I just busted a gut figu...

Considering that the magnet charger we have here at work uses a capacitor bank that fills a cabinet the size of a small fridge, and uses coil shots in the 10kto15K amp range ( for a few milliseconds)...I cant imagine that little bugger doing anything! Now here is what you use if you want low end tor...

Read up on analog voltage meters, there should be a shunt resistor across the meter and you scale the needle sweep with the shunt. Should just be a resistor change to rescale. I didnt see one on this, I was just assuming it was a cheesy " all or nothing" meter and they let the windings al...

Fantastic Dan thank you! My plan is to make new machanical internals to use the pots from the modern radio. I was also going to locate the trims and dual rates to pots on the top of the case and utilize vintage knobs. Basicly everything on the outside would look vintage (minus the short antenna), ev...

Hi Guys, A co-worker and I are building a pair of RC12E replicas for tearing around the office with. For fun I thought I would build up a vintage looking radio to go with it, so I picked up a nice looking Futaba "brown box" transmitter that was originally 72.320 mhz.....Im leaving that sti...

Hello, First off forgive any stupid questions as I have never had, nor worked on a pan car of any kind (except motors). A friend of mine at work had toyed with building an R/C car using 3D printed parts and all, just for fun. When I saw the RC12E that Chris had drawn up I thought it would be a perfe...

I was going to suggest a Novak Cyclone since they seem to be going for next to nothing on ebay and I still think of them as top end stuff. I picked up a lot of 3 cyclones, a cyclone TC, an Atom, a GTS and a Tekin Pro Tempfet for $35, then grabbed a Novak pit Wizard for $12. That equipment is still b...