Popper252

lmao, thanks ehroof.

chubbysuncle

I have the HPI bell on the Volcano now. Seems to work better. All the gears just wear out in the tranny in about a gallon. At least I won't have to buy a new bell.

MrCheezeWhizz

I recently took two semesters worth of mechanical drawing class. We had to measure differnet things and draw them on the computer using autoCAD. I'm gonna try and see if i can dimension my volcano spur gear (maybe even all gears in the gear box), and give the drawing to my dad's friend who could cut them out of metal with his CNC machine.

chubbysuncle

If you need a tester for those new gears let me know!

MrCheezeWhizz

Sorry man, if i was gonna go into the spur gear making business, I'd definately hand out some test gears, but I'll most likely only be making one set []

I'll post the design on here, so if they work well enough, maybe you guys can make some of your own
That is, if i can make them in the first place...

Popper252

Aw man... that's a tease... Oh well. Let us know if it works. I could really use some metal 47 tooth gears or something along those lines.

jackkpl

Hey popper, try to use some steel clutch bell like hpi savage A991 part. I put it in my car, tightened all the engine mount screws and it looks like spur is not wearing on inside now. But informtulately i had to make my own gear shaft - got a screw M6 , got some nuts that fit 1st gear in place of one way bearing and tightened the gear with 2 nuts , one on each side. i had to use some other tools to adopd new shaft but it works great . Main problem in redcats is aluminum clutch bell. Also look at clutch shaft, i bent second one and it also doesnt help spur to live longer

Popper252

Hey jack thanks for the suggestion but I have a two speed buggy.
And just a question, why do all that work when you could buy a 16t HPI bell that is almost a direct bolt on?

chubbysuncle

Popper, he converted the 2 speed to a single speed. I may try it if I get the buggy running again. He used the 2 spd gearbox and used the nuts to jam the 1st gear closer to the engine so it works just like the single speed. Pretty tricky. The HPI bell only extends to the second gear. It took me a minute to understand what he did. Hey Jack can you post some pics of that mod??

jackkpl

Here are pics, this doesn't look professional, but was done in like 1 hour with basic tools . I am able to position the spur by +-0.5cm , i have to use cut-in-half nuts though. Last picture shows a shaft that was my 1st and was a bit out of centre

Team Knowitall

It's out of my hands now. the manufacturer knows about the problem and claim they're working on it. What do you want me to do, start a foundry and machine shop in my apartment?

ehroof

coming up with some answers to peoples questions and offering some help instead of deleting posts would be a start!

Popper252

Hey folks I have some good news and a little bad news.
Good news:
I got a new job the other day working for the physics dept. here at FSU. I was poking around and asking a few questions and I found out that we have a CNC machine that I could use. Now I probably wouldn't be able to go into all out production of gears or anything like that but I'm sure I'd be able to produce enough to hand out a couple.
Bad News:
I have no clue how to make a cad file or anything of the sort. I downloaded a program or two and I'm going to have a shot at making something that resembles a gear, but if anyone with experience could lend a hand that'd be great. I'm going to go raid the tool boxes at work tomorrow and see if I can get hold of a caliper and maybe someone to help me out. Hopefully I can make something work. I'll be sure to keep you all posted on any progress.
Edit: I'm "acquiring" a copy of autocad 2007. If anyone has any other software suggestions let me know.

Gotalightningvx

if anyone wants a aluminum 2 speed tranny for the lightning .......... if i did my homework right the one for the hpi nitro 3 evo should work if it does also get a hpi clutch bell and your all good i ll see if i can get any more info[8D] http://cgi.ebay.com/HPI-Nitro-RS4-3-...QQcmdZViewItem .................... well any nitro 3 evo part should work like a arms c hub carrires , lower diff bulk mounts espesialy aluminum one i think

AJsToyz

Hey Popper , here was the super cheap fix for my Tornado XP. If you notice the little homemade spacer that goes on the nut , and how far out the outer bearing is in the clutchbell. The other pick is the Duratrax set up , they both seems to work pretty well.

bluecaka69

long time no see glad to see your buggies still goin

AJsToyz

Thanks !!!! I told Popper I'd send him these picks a while back and just didn't get a chance to. Cars running pretty good , been playing helicopter pilot though. I tried MSN but my computor has issues so I can't get on. Oh well , I'll just breeze though here .

bluecaka69

if you have norton internet security disable for 30 mins and try thats what i did

Popper252

Thanks for those pics man, and like Mr. Caka said it's nice to have you back.
So baisically what you did with the stock clutch bell was put that spacer in there and had the bearing sit further out. I guess what you were going for was stability and less wobble. I'll try it out and see what I get.

AJsToyz

Popper

Check the back bearing also. On my stock one the hole is a little to large for the bearing so it wants to wobble even more. Clean it up real good and either a drop of loctite or if you are daring a drop of super glue. I prefer loctite but it has to be clean.

Its nice to be back !!

Hey blue, I've got a worm that tries to get into my system every time I go to Tower or RCU , what parts of Norton do I need to disable ? I just gotta make sure I don't run around having unprotected net service !! LOL

ehroof

hi aj, how ya doing, long time no see. everything ok, flying the plane alot with the warmer weather? been using my boats alot, gonna fly this weekend.

AJsToyz

Eddie,

Doing good !! I've been crashing quite well thank you !! I'm working on putting a T-Rex together. I've got a little cheap Heli but I found out after I got it that it burns out tail motors. For about 60.00 bucks I can fix the problem but I only paid 75.00 for the Heli. I got a few other cool toys though and having some fun. My daughter loves to watch the airplanes , she thinks its great !! Glad to hear you got the boats out. You aren't around all the extra water I've been seeing on the news are ya ??

AJsToyz

Oh yeh , I got a Great planes Flat Out , that thing is a riot !! Let me know how it goes with the planes.

ehroof

bro, i am ready to build an ark, it rains every friggin day.

ehroof

i am looking at getting an herr extra, for the .10 (1/2a) it only $99 and i have an os .10 ready to go, if you want to see goto ebay or tower and type in herr extra, its a cool little plane