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I thought I would try my hand at welding a pan. This thing had 4 huge holes in it, and two extra holes. They are gone now. Got them mostly ground down, and need to mill it all flat. I didn't take good before shots like I wanted to, but here is an old picture from the seller. Whatchas think?

Ok, I cant figure out how to save a picture from an ebay auction, so here is the link. Its the silver pan.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300399816219&ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT#ht_500wt_975

after

Looks good, that also looks like my very old ( 1980's) tool box I had back then!
Nice job.

Nice job man. Some more sanding on that with some fine grit and you will have a super smooth chassis. A little polish and the thing will look like a mirror.

Jake

Thanks guys. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I only wish I had good parts to go on it when its all done!

what did you use for filler? if you used 4043, if you try to anodize it, the filler won't color the same as the parent material.

jwscab wrote:what did you use for filler? if you used 4043, if you try to anodize it, the filler won't color the same as the parent material.

I used 1100 rod. I think I might just powdercoat it. If I could anodize the exact color, I would probably go that route.

so that should probably anodize OK, especially if you are looking for the factory gold color. nice job, thats a tough thing to accomplish well!

I still see some non factory holes and did you fill in the off set battery cup holes?

I still have a few holes to fill. And some will need redrilled because of how close they are to other holes. I wanted to see how well it would work first.

Sounds good and looks good!
Maybe you should fill in all of the holes that you do not plan to use - clean custom to match the cut down sides

I thought about that, but didn't know how that would look. And I dont really know what all would stay or go until I had it all put together. I guess I could mock it up?

Well you can decide if you are going to run an ESC, that would take care of 6 holes. Then decide how you are going to mount the battery and what size servo. I think it would look really nice, just don't forget the antenna