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Now that it is apart it's a great time to get those nasty burrs off the gears

Chuck

Kyosho Optima Mid series OT-85 Acetal/Derlin Center Gear.
It took a couple years to find but I got it!

Thanks again to terry.sc for the help.


Chuck

You caught my attention. Can you tell me any more? I don't know of Dave Geitner , has he used and compared anodized samples? I've ordered a couple of Caswell's dyes and so far haven't had any headway. Almost tried gold n. I did look at there example of gold s, it appeared too bright and too yellow. ...

The D-Hawk bearing adapter is not really necessary IMHO. "Should I put bearings in this kit, or are there any other improvements I could make in the gear box while it's open ?" Bearings is yes. The best investment in a 6 gear transmission is taking the burrs off the teeth of all the metal ...

Try either UltraHiVE on Ebay or mciracing.ca.
UltraHiVE's are said to be more premium and MCI's are probably more affordable.


Chuck

THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 9:23 pm In Wausau, WI for work. Nice sunset at least.

Oh man..
Only about 40 mins to Peroutka's Meat Processing for Swedish potato sausage!!
I love the potato sausage and their bratwurst. Dang I'm feeling like Pavlov's dog.


Chuck

Kyosho Outrage
I completely disassembled and thoroughly cleaned this car, I'm not sure it was ever run.

A few more pics. https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?p=560878&hilit=outrage#p560878



Chuck

This is getting picky but... The gear I was going to use to replace the Kyosho OT-86 counter gear was a Robinson RRP-3750 for Optima Mid. The Robinson is a much better gear than the poor excuse for a gear that Kyosho made but the Robinson is 32p. Why 32p, why not the correct .8mod??? I found an M.I....

The motor's heat questions can be partially addressed by gearing. I inexpensively modified 3 items on my Rocky. 1. I cleaned and polished the MSC printed circuit board with McGuire's polish. 2. I replaced the contacts on the MSC wiper arm. 3. I replaced the old broken ceramic resistors with higher w...

Doug Although I am not sure there is a reference here https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?t=930 Re: stock motor Post by templeofspeed » Sun Mar 01, 2009 6:08 am The unmarked motor is the earlier (Yokomo) motor, it was used through early Cadillac production (the motor label should have the address...

Thanks Doug

It appears that to find any Google reference to the gear and find their site you must add "acetal" in the search terms.

And RWR doesn't use Kyosho's part #?

Anyways to beat that, shipping was 6 quid!

Chuck

It might be easier to by a replacement gear made in delrin for the Mid https://rwracing.co.uk/shop/ols/products/optima-mid-4-acetal-idler-gear Thank you so much!!!!!! I can't believe I had not found this site! In my eyes you may now rival the legendary GoogleFu Master Phin. I have searched for such...

I recently had 2 Kyosho OT-85 center gears (idlers) printed by Shapeways. The gears were printed MJF PA12. Vapor smoothing or any smoothing was not an option. The gear faces are not particularly well finished. Probably nature of the beast. I really just wanted try and design a proper gear in 360 to ...

An MIP counter gear OT-85 replacement. This gear is most probably .8 mod and has very smooth gear face. And a pair of printed center gears OT-85 ( MJF PA12 ). MIP & center gears.1.JPG Kyosho's OT-86 gear faces look more like a meat grinder or medieval torture device. Kyosho OT-86.1.png Not s...

On a couple of builds I've used Secraft stainless steel tie rods.
They are cheap and have a pretty cool retro vibe.
Both 4-40 and m3



Chuck