Carbon fiber Chassis Experiment

[myfordcnc]

Place holder for now. Opener to a carbon chassis. working on a buck and a vacuum system to pump out a few or many. Pics to come soon. This will run in tandem with the 4wd interpretation I'm working on. if it works out.

[losiXXXman]

Subscribed.. I've been knocking around the idea of building a mold form and laying up a fiberglass tub for all my Ultima parts. I thought about making it as a blank so that it could be drilled and cut for RC10 components if desired.

[mk-Zero]

Sounds cool, I'll be watching

[Jay Dub]

I did this a couple of years ago. 25* blank buck, with upturned sides for fore-aft rigidity. Pulled a FG version as a test. Never got around to the CF versions tho. Life, adn too many other projects got the best of me . One day I will get it done however.

[losiXXXman]

RIght on JayDub. with 25* being the "hot" set-up, that's what i would do too.

[myfordcnc]

Buck roughed out. I'll need to refine the dimensions and transitions and then fillet were fillets need to be.

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

Looks cool even like that. Someone started a thread on their own CF a few years ago, but I don't think they ever successfully completed it though. It was still a very cool thread. I look forward to seeing how this goes.

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

It wasn't CF he was working on, but still maybe an interesting read for you.
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=16647

[JPAE07]

Amazing! Great job so far.

Those are some skills, right there.

[myfordcnc]

I had thought about making a positive out of an existing chassis. What I noticed (and this may just be the chassis set I have) is that the aluminum tubs are not very symmetrical.

I only have one new condition black b stamp chassis. And although it was better than the rest of my chassis sets it too was asymmetrical.

Also sides were not straight. I realize this has to do with the stamping processes but since I wanted to give myself the best chance of successes as possible I started from scratch.

It was interesting measuring up the old tubs since you discover that they used a lot of standard dimensions. Like the radius of the back is one inch. The inside depth is 1". The width at the back is 2 1/16". A bunch more dimensions like that.

[myfordcnc]

Looking for an empty oxygen tank (like construction) to act as a battery to my vacuum system I'm putting together . If any body in my area has one to spare.

[myfordcnc]

Amazing! Great job so far.

Those are some skills, right there.

Thanks man!

[marlo]

Very interested in seeing this unfold, The buck looks good!...........in fact, it gave me a inspiration to create an RC10 made out of wood.....for show only

[slow_jun]

cant wait... also has plan to make CF tubbies... this will be fun.

[Jerzi]

Any progress.
Jerzi