Scorcher-10

[Asso_man!]

"measure twice, cut once"

I cut it three times and it was still too short

you meant too long I guess

[Synergy]

"measure twice, cut once"

I cut it three times and it was still too short

you meant too long I guess

I think Shodog was after the comedy effect

[Asso_man!]

well, I guess I have to accomodate myself to the subtil English sense of humour

[Tadracket]

Yeah, I scratched my head on that one a time or two

[shodog]

Yes it is a joke here at work. On the parts we produce, we have a tolerance of .010" I know there are tighter tolerances out there but it's a beeotch to keep a 12 foot part within the tolerances

[mrlexan]

Yes it is a joke here at work. On the parts we produce, we have a tolerance of .010" I know there are tighter tolerances out there but it's a beeotch to keep a 12 foot part within the tolerances

On a 12 ft piece, the tolerance should be more like 0.25 in..... I guess unless you are going military, but then again I gues it would dependent what the military deliverable is. Ford Mustangs used to come off the line anywhere from +-0.25 to 0.5 in, I know AMG and HMMWVs (Hum-vees) are +- 2 to 3 inches (no joke).

[shodog]

On a 12 ft piece, the tolerance should be more like 0.25 in..... I guess unless you are going military, but then again I gues it would dependent what the military deliverable is.

I work for a prominent military contractor in a classified program and thats all I can say. Kind of a bummer when your at a party and someone asks, "What do you do?"

[Tadracket]

Wow, 2-3 inches. That's crazy. We had really tight tolerances when building trannies for Caterpillars wheel loaders, log skidders, and motor graders. But one rule always stood above the rest: "When in doubt, ship it out"

[mrlexan]

Me too Jim, I know how it feels. Nothing Classified right now, but I go to FOUO and Classified meetings ever now and then. You in the JPAS system?

[scollins]

I could not find the thread I posted months ago on here showing how much I chopped off the tub on my Scollins RC10 Scorcher- (which I assume you were inspired by scr8p-he he)

I have not been on this great site lately as the day job as a car designer is draining me from getting time for the RC10s- long story slowly moving into a new company possibly but may be a couple /three months....blah blah blah...



Hope all is well, when the career madness settles down I will be back on the RC10 talk more regularly..............

Until then here is a fun project I finished up last weekend and posted on TamiyaClub, my newest on-road runner for goofing off at the local parking lot by my house-

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=65999&id=5414

take care fellas, hope to be more involved in the threads in a couple months

[scr8p]

one rc10, ready for some cuttin'. it's just kinda mocked up in the pic. the noseplate still needs to go back about a 1/4" or so. the shock tower is against the tub right now.

thanks jay.

[templeofspeed]

Nice Jason...I guess I gotta build me one of these...

[mrlexan]

Sweet and your welcome. Hope you don't mind the right rear fender, I figured a man with your skills.... it should be a no-brainer. Other than that the body is pretty much perfect.

[Dnewish2]

Sweet!
This is the post that got me to register.
I'm building a baja of my own on a T chassis. I'm looking fwd to more progress on this one.

[scr8p]

well, welcome to the board.

i'm not gonna get much else done on this anytime soon. i'm too busy right now for "quality" rc time. but, stay tuned....................

take a look back through some of the older threads. there's quite a few beetle build-ups.