Got my swing arms soldered up today so I started assembling the hull. This was hardly difficult.

I tried the motors for size.

The motors will sit in this position and I need a bracket along the floor to hold them up as right now, the motor magnets are sticking to the floor and its making taking pictures tricky.



Then I roughly installed the suspension racks. All the drilled and tapped holes along the lengths of the racks are for cross members that will hold the springs and the other ones act as restraints to stop the swing arms returning too far.
It all sounds a bit janky but it works in principle. But it needs final fitting and finishing.

There are so many holes as I needed lots of room for fine tuning the suspension. The shafts on the swing arms that go between the hull and the rack have tapped cross holes drilled in them. Into these holes goes a shaft that ho.ds the other end of the springs.




It all looks rough now but it should be OK when done.

The battery is intended to sit like this in the final iteration to maximize space. Then ESCs and so on will go on either side and towards the back behind the motors.



Hopefully the holiday next week will let me get a bit more done.

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