=ebay wash and dye job=

[badhoopty]

picked this up off ebay last week, bought it mainly for the wheels. once i got it, i discovered the wheels were definitely not queen quality and decided to just dye all the parts black, polish up the wheels best i could, and ez-off the rest of the aluminum. pretty neat little rig for what it is. i threw one of liquorbox's wings on it and one of my test fit bodies for the time being. probably end up a runner or maybe sell it, i dunno.

the chassis is odd, its some sort of plastic or teflon with foam sandwiched in the middle, anybody know who made it?

before pic


after

[Asso_man!]

very nice job, now you could easily sell it for the double of what you paid for it How did you polish the wheels?

[badhoopty]

i used nev-r-dull polish on them. the rears i just put on a runner and spun them while i polished, the fronts i just used alot of elbow grease.

i need to hit them again and polish up the backsides more as well, probably chuck them in a drill bit for that.

[Asso_man!]

I don't know that Neve-r-dull product, maybe because it has another brand name here in Europe... but I have something similar I think, it works but I can't manage to wipe some little oxidized grey spots on my Sees rims, do you have any piece of advice? For the moment I only tried with polishing product and an old tissue manually... maybe it will dissapear with the bit drill?

[Eau Rouge]

Looks awesome! I remember that chassis hanging on the wall at the hobby shop, and I even remember guys running it, but I can't remember who made it. At that time, there were only a few companies making graphite chassis at that point... Composit Craft, Houge, Raborn and A&L to name a few. I think it was the balsa sandwhich chassis from Composite Craft, but don't quote me on that.


Also, a Dremel with a polishing pad and some Blue Magic metal polish, and you can polish up any odd shapes that you can't spin in a drill. Works as good as Nev-R-Dull. OH, and here Nev-R-Dull is made by EagleOne car care products.

[Asso_man!]

many thanks for that Apex

[knucklebuster]

Nice job badhoopty. I was watching the auction and planned to bid just for the rims. I envisioned doing exactly as you did (dye, polish). I would say for the price you indeed have a nice runner. Did it come w/bearings?

[liquorboxracing]

NICE WING! Dude that thing cleaned up nice. Shoot me some pics of that one for my website when you get a chance bros.

[joeyskates]

Wow what a difference. If only you were selling some weight loss pills or those books on how to get rich quick where they have a before and after picture!

Haha no more hoopty... hmmm maybe we can have an R/C version of pimp my ride?