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it is why I realy dislike it. Maybe for a crash test...

blakbird wrote:

caprinut wrote:

For the carbon, I did go for a rod instead for a tube section, but Tamiya did actually made hollow carbon shafts for the TL01, #53322
In my head a rod will be stronger than a tube, if plane can use them on wings I think it will work in a transmission too.

The direction of the fiber wind is very important. Fishing poles and kite spars made to resist bending will have the fibers at 0 and 90 degrees in general. This is almost useless for torsion. For a drive shaft you want the fibers wound diagonally at 45 degrees (spiral wound).

All other things being equal, a rod (solid) is stronger than a tube (hollow). But if you consider the winding, a hollow spiral wound will likely be stronger than a solid straight wound if used as a drive shaft.

You are right.
Hopefully I choosed the right rod as my LHS had two brands to choose from.
I tried to use carbon tubes in the past, but that did not work out for me as it splintered as I tried to saw it to the length I needed.
The rod I bought now is hard, very hard and when drilling the propeller shadt it came out as fine powder, saw no evidence of splinters.
Not sure if I gonna drive it at all, but when I do I will keep an eye on it

stingray-63 wrote:

it is why I realy dislike it. Maybe for a crash test...

Before you chrash it, donate it to me if you ever get one

Shame on me! I have 2 tl01b and a new clk gtr on tl01 and swapped another one. It was a cheap chassis with nice bodies.
The optioned version looks largely more interesting.

Found one more difference between Tamiya and HBX..

Orginal TL01 to the left and HBX to the right

From my parts stash, I think I got allmost enough to build two more TL01 based rigs, one with regular arms or M chassis width, and one with TL01B width..

And these are the rest of the parts I got in the TL01 deal...

And just happen to have two TL01 chassis kicking around, these are HBX.
One got the small gearbox housing from the TL01 deal...

The second one still missing the gearbox housing.
May end up ordering a new chassis if nothing turns up.

Would love to get hold of the clear chassis for display purpose only

I have some tl01 spares. I will take a look if I have it.

My collection of Tamiya motors are really thin atm, just silvercans left for the most part, which won't do on this build.

But I do have a vintage Kyosho SPA 480WS which is 24x4 turn.
This motor will do the task for now, later I will refurb it with new decals.
It works to, just tested it.
Also found a good 21t AV pinion which will be replaced by steel in the future.

Fitted.
Gold seems to fit the theme...

I've had these in my spare parts bin for some time now, these will fit well on this build.

Fitted

As it stands now

I tested the motor like this, works good

Oh wow, 4.5 years later!!

Installed the stabilizer bar I got here the other day.
Fitted the stiffest one





Since I'm using single piece arms on this, there is no bolt holes to use for the stabilizer linkage.
Had to be a bit creative.
I found some L brakets with one hole in them, drilled a hole through the arm and fitted the bracket with a 3x8mm self tapper.


Looks like this on the underside


Would like holes in the arms or a neater solution... Oh well..

Your aloy parts look like fox front arm ones.