I see Red

[shodog]

today I got back some parts from the annodizers. They are slated to go on my Composite Craft Worlds buggy. The red is a nice ruby color and looks much better in person than it does in these pics.



Here are the other parts I will be replacing

[Halgar]

Looks pretty sweet.

[mikedealer]

i have a link to purchase some hammad ghuman alloy shock bushings if your interested, hard to find store but they do still have them for like $10... i cleaned em out of all the other HG goodies they had at some point and left a bunch of these.. shoot me a PM if interested

or if anyone else is interested let me know and ill share the link, they have 4 left in stock it says.. they also have 4 of the lower spring retainer kits let in stock too at $10 each


Looks really sweet too, is the anodizer a local guy? i was looking to get some stuff done and the few guys locally to me are lazy lol

[Spiderman]

ultra sweet in my book.
how bout a side shot of the shock collars?

[badhoopty]

nice stuff jim.

[shodog]

I finally got to work on this buggy today. I found out that 1.32 shock shafts are really long so I plan to pick up a set of 1.02's for the rear. Overall I really like the look of the clear bodies and red annodized accents. Next up will be trimming the body and painting.

[scr8p]

looks pretty sweet, jim.

i know they'd be stiff, but how about a set of the red springs?

[aconsola]

Firm, Red springs would be perfect, it will keep it from bottoming on landings after hitting the big ramps
Beautiful build as usual Shodog !

[skunk.werkz]

Was the anodizing done locally or did you have to send it out of state? I would love to send out stuff to have it re-anodized the factory gold (or as close as I can get it)

[shodog]

Red springs would look good. On my next hobby shop hit, I'll look for some.

I had a buddy at my work do the annodizing for me. I can't offer it up to anyone else otherwise I'd get busted.

Jim

[JPAE07]

I had a local place do some anodizing for me but it can be cost prohibitive. A WC Chassis, motor plate, nose x 2, and nose tubes cost me around $140. I believe this was actually fair since they usually do larger batches and require a min order at $250 plus.

Jim, nice car btw.

[mikedealer]

hell if i could make the money back, i would purchase the anodizing kit and start doing stuff..

[scr8p]

hell if i could make the money back, i would purchase the anodizing kit and start doing stuff..

that's what's keeping me from doing it.

[mikedealer]

well i have like 5-7 chassis i would redo, along with 5+ noseplates and like 10 motor plates.. along with a box full of shock bodies and caps... then a bunch of screws... and probably a couple wheels... and maybe a few random odd and ends parts...

i guess the appeal of smelling oven cleaner for a few days to strip the old stuff off is not something i am looking forward too lol.. the anodizing part is pretty easy..

[mikedealer]

caswell sells the deluxe system for $800, or the basic kit for like $325. Probably gonna need the deluxe kit.. So $800 bucks seems like a lot, plus another $100 in dyes probably... its a lot of money... if i could anodize anything other than RC car parts i would probably invest in one.. but the only other real hobby other than RC that anodizes is paintball guns usually... and the ocasional motorcycle part... just seems expensive to me