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Sooooo for some reason this little project is giving me motivation Anywho it didn't take long to strip it down to the various parts Put the alloy parts through the treatment to remove the anodizing and they're ready to polish now

Opened up the gearbox/axles and was pleasantly surprised All bearings and quality gears (no lube though) and an internal alloy motor mount plate is nice Tightened all the internal screws and greased up the gears before reassembly

So unlike removing anodizing from alloy parts, there is a very different procedure for doing plastic parts To start you need to put them in brake fluid to remove the anodize from the chrome base (make sure it all comes off!) then soak the part in a sugar soap bath till all the chrome base is gone (about 30min ) There you have it, nice clean part

All in all a good amount achieved tonight, Should start polishing tomorrow and take care of a couple of mods before starting the reassembly

Interesting beginning Andy. But some plastic parts look fragiles like turning arms turnbuckles? Really a pretty crawler like new

stingray-63 wrote:

Interesting beginning Andy. But some plastic parts look fragiles like turning arms turnbuckles? Really a pretty crawler like new

Thanks mate, they are actually quite robust and made of a decent grade of nylon

Here's a better pic

I like this type of skeleton chassis. it remind me the 1/1 car crushers

Cleaned and polished, polished and cleaned then made some good progress on the reassembly I have shortened the wheelbase by 80mm as I prefer it's stance and replaced the original motors with the 100T the po picked up for it hoping to paint the wheel trims tomorrow so I can get it back to a roller, also I've order a couple of parts that should be here next week

Any plans for a body yet?