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A project log for Ultimate running aid

Eliminate everything from running but the running part.

lion-mclionheadlion mclionhead 02/13/2019 at 21:490 Comments

The total for the next vehicle ended up being around $320.  Should note the rising price of the lunchbox kit.  Lions have now built 5 vehicles.  Lions don't eat up robots.  Years of experience have shown 2 lunchbox derived vehicles to be the required fleet.  

Hobbyking required using a chrome browser to enable shipping.  After 20 years, Firefox still can't render javascript, but doesn't lock up.  Chrome renders javascript but constantly locks up.  Nothing will ever be as fast as page loads in 1997.  That year, the backbone 1st lept ahead of demand while clockspeeds lept ahead of the static pages of the time.

The journey began with 2 batteries.  Note China has shrunk the size, despite a negligible decrease in current.  Innovation ahead of refinancation.

The new, higher priced kit arrived.  Remember how marvelous these boxes looked in hobby shops 20 years ago & how they're manely discarded now.

Parts to be discarded & parts to be used are separated.
Front wheels are strengthened with shapelock.



Paint is applied to all exposed surfaces.  Very important to install plastic bushings as temporary masks.

Servo is pre threadlocked.

Battery tray is modified.


The chassis is ground down, the hardest part of customizing this $150 kit.

Chassis modification.

A key modification was allowing the transmission to be removed without disassembling the entire chassis.

Battery tray receives 1/4" spacers.

Transmission receives wood blocks to attach an oil cover.

Wood struts are installed.







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