T I G

lol, I havent done very much.

stoney,
I shouldve known you knew about that tubing, lol. Youre right it is a little soft, with the right bracing and thickness its very strong. Triangles triangles and more triangles, theres no such thing as too stiff a chassis

time for bed
Later

Q.S.

Yea that bracing makes almost any thing stronger..Nighty Night..

ttoks

i'v just been reading through this thread and i see a lot of people saying that a MIG welder isn't a good choice, i have to say you must all have no idea what your talking about because it is a lot easier to get a nice strong weld with a MIG then stick or TIG (tungsten inert gas welding, not tig the RCU member), sure if you have the skills to use a tTIG on high carbon steels that is the way to go, but otherwise i recommend a MIG welder, stick is also a good choice, ESAB low hydrogen general purpose electrodes are a pleasure to weld with and stick is cheap because you don't need fluxcore wire or inert gas like MIG, or inert gas as with TIG.

speedygonzales

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

im just starting to MIG weld myself, im ditching the flux core wire and going to run some shielding gas. i did some tubing already with shielding gas at my neighbors (didn't touch the DOM yet TIG ) and its surprisingly very easy with clean welds.

i should be starting mine soon hopefully (trophy truck BABY YEH!)

bigmodman

yeah mig welding is alot easier and im 15 and i have stick welded and tried to tig......but mig is the easiest.....

T I G

Mig is deffinately easier and quicker to do than Tig.

speedy,
Cant wait to see it, you need to make a photo journal of the progress you make. Its going to be awesome.

Fewski

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Thanks all for the advice!

I've decided to make a dragster (top fuel) right now, 1/5 scale of course. I figure it will be easier to figure out with the suspension and the drive train.

Hopefully if that goes good, I'll build a stadium truck afterwards.

Right now, I've got most of the full scale plans done and will start making the frame sometime next week. I'll make a thread will pictures once I start building.

Thanks again.

bigmodman

ok i will be lookin forward to seein it!

first25q

HI Stoneyberk you have a nice website. Did you make everthing that is on your site,if so nice job.

Q.S.

Thank you. Yes the only thing i dident make is the camber rods & rod ends. but if i had the time i could. I made all the stuff for my Beretta and it is a job to do very time comsuming. im all about Detail. thanks again.

first25q

Stoneyberk your welcome
With the 1/4 scale cars on your site those are some good looking cars. Keep up the good work.

Q.S.

You misunderstood me I built the Beretta and all the parts for it not all them cars in the Quarterscale section. these are the ones i built in my tabs Gallery/ Beretta build pics & projects & parts & service these are the tab names on my site.,, I wish i Built and had all them other cars.

first25q

I was just teasing you don't get mad.I know that most of the cars not yours.I few of the cars have my parts on it.
The work you do is applauded by me. You know how to machine. Nice Job i mean it.

Ed First Quarter Racing

Q.S.

Bud im not mad I just diddent want you to think I built all them cars. what parts did you make on some of them cars? I love to machine stuff nothing better than making some thing with your own two hands.

first25q

The cars that have aluminum 3 pc rims.The 34 ford, orange funny car the green sprint and the white stadium truck.The green sprint has my fiberglass tank(not the carbon fiber tail tank) it is on a different car) .made hubs to match the rims on the funny car.

ttoks

there is one thing you need to watch for with MIG welding though, cold over-roll, you can have a perfect looking weld with no penetration, you gotta either use a flick motion or a circular motion to keep the weld pool on the parent metal and not building on top of itself, certainly though if you know how to TIG weld that is the best way to go, very strong, very clean, and you can listen to the radio while you weld lol (my favorite part about it).

i love the idea of the 1/5 scale drag car, i'v thought about it but i cant get any good engines around here for a good price, mugdy (spelling?) got the idea rolling for me, but i think i mgiht stick with my revo until i can find some 1.5% chrome-molly tubing and a decent engine for a reasonable price.

speedygonzales

OMG you want me to do all that lol

alright alright i will [>:].
hope to start soooon.

T I G

speedy,
make sure they're titled and dated to

I'm deffinately looking forward to your build. One day I will have mine finished. We can meet up and takem out sometime.

speedygonzales

TIG that would be sooo awsome!!
im going to build mine for crazy jumping. its going to need a pilots license with all the air time its going to see lol.

T I G

That would be

Thats what I'm going to build mine for to, a little air time isnt so bad.
Hows the welding coming along?

bigmodman

wow speedy i think you would want to over build it so you can jump and everything you want...[>:] but yeah for the most part on that is suspension suspension suspension...hehe.

Q.S.

Hey speedy are still in need of that Diagram/print when i find it? or are you going to custom Build a chassis? let me know when you have the time.

bigmodman

hey stoney i seen your post on rcg...and the links are being retarded so here ya go.for the u-joints.
[link]http://www.mcmaster.com/[/link]

its under power transmission close to the bottom.

Q.S.

Thanks bud. I dont know how i missed that i got this link on my site to. i'll check it in time. man oh man i got way to many things going on at one time lately.

bigmodman

me too man........


yeah i am bout to use that site a bunch for my cars...