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My Axial AX10 crawler project
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Pick up my x'mas gift at the LHS (Hobby Hangar) today... My first crawler Axial AX10... Can't wait to play with it ... :D Hopefully there are a ton of upgrade parts for this rig..
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upgrades are endless for the AX-10. you could spend probably several days just looking at all the options. have fun
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Ya' just did a search and found several integy parts :D
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Took another pic of the Crawler in action... :D
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ORIGINAL: gixxernoob Ya' just did a search and found several integy parts :D Also if you plan on crawling in snow and water you want to take some plastic wrap and rubber bands to cover your electronics up so you do not short em out ;) |
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ORIGINAL: djzachtyler ORIGINAL: gixxernoob Ya' just did a search and found several integy parts :D Also if you plan on crawling in snow and water you want to take some plastic wrap and rubber bands to cover your electronics up so you do not short em out ;) Thanx for the recommendation I will look into it... Btw does anybody know how to make it a four wheel steering? I'm not planning on competing... |
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My first "bling bling" mod... :D
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I got a bunch of parts directly from Integy, they were on sale at the time. My son put them on and we've been running our AX10s into all sorts of things, good 5 to 6 ft drops regularly and everything hold up fine.
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ORIGINAL: RickyIS300 I got a bunch of parts directly from Integy, they were on sale at the time. My son put them on and we've been running our AX10s into all sorts of things, good 5 to 6 ft drops regularly and everything hold up fine. That's good to know that integy holds up... btw I will do a combination of Integy and Axial alum parts on my AX10... |
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I have the Intergy bent links... they are "ok" but the rod ends are molded in and on one the brass bushing fell out... they came with my cars so I won't wine to much but... I wasn't super impressed... thats all. Save your $ for a DIG unit (driveshaft disconnect) there are some threads on how to make your own for cheap :D It spanks 4WS all around on steering. Looks like someone was having fun on the snow pile ;) Try mounting your lipo on top of your servo... even though it doesn't weigh a ton having all the weight lower down really *REALLY* helps [8D]
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geez ,
can you stand on your head while balancing on a basketball,while rubbing your belly? thats what it woould take to fly a heli and run your rock crawler at the same time !!! just kiddin (of course) cool crawler!!!! |
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ORIGINAL: calvino I have the Intergy bent links... they are ''ok'' but the rod ends are molded in and on one the brass bushing fell out... they came with my cars so I won't wine to much but... I wasn't super impressed... thats all. Save your $ for a DIG unit (driveshaft disconnect) there are some threads on how to make your own for cheap :D It spanks 4WS all around on steering. Looks like someone was having fun on the snow pile ;) Try mounting your lipo on top of your servo... even though it doesn't weigh a ton having all the weight lower down really *REALLY* helps [8D] Yes I will move my lipo.. i thought about doing a 4ws however it looks like i will go for the "dig unit" first and see what happens... :D |
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ORIGINAL: rcslsafut geez , can you stand on your head while balancing on a basketball,while rubbing your belly? thats what it woould take to fly a heli and run your rock crawler at the same time !!! just kiddin (of course) cool crawler!!!! |
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Here is my next project...
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Mounted the DNA... ready for testing... :D
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Up next is the ESC... The AX10 stock ESC is bogging down on servo and dig load...
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RE: My Axial AX10 crawler project
ORIGINAL: calvino I have the Intergy bent links... they are ''ok'' but the rod ends are molded in and on one the brass bushing fell out... they came with my cars so I won't wine to much but... I wasn't super impressed... thats all. Save your $ for a DIG unit (driveshaft disconnect) there are some threads on how to make your own for cheap :D It spanks 4WS all around on steering. Looks like someone was having fun on the snow pile ;) Try mounting your lipo on top of your servo... even though it doesn't weigh a ton having all the weight lower down really *REALLY* helps [8D] I also stand firmly on the no integy stuff... you are best off with the Axial links, and delrin ball ends... trust and believe when I tell you it will pay off inn the long run ;) |
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ORIGINAL: gixxernoob Up next is the ESC... The AX10 stock ESC is bogging down on servo and dig load... I doubt if changing the ESC will help you with the servo and dig bogging down. The problem with the stock Axial and 95% of the stock ESC's including that Traxxas, is that the internal BEC is set really fricken low. Sometimes they are only 4.8 volts.......If you want to remedy that problem for good, you need to install an external BEC that will supply all your servos with a constant 6v(or whatever your servos needs are. Some BEC's can do a lot higher). There are many threads on here for instructions on how to install a BEC and they are dirt cheap(usually around $10). I use one from my Helicopter in my Scaler and it works just as good as one made specific for cars, ir by a company that only makes cars.....WARNING: Never set the BEC higher than your servos can handle.... If you need assistance, I will post more.. Z |
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Shower caps are an excellant alternative to plastic wrap. Enjoy! I love my Scorpion more than any other RC I have!
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ORIGINAL: Zim-uh-tosa ORIGINAL: gixxernoob Up next is the ESC... The AX10 stock ESC is bogging down on servo and dig load... I doubt if changing the ESC will help you with the servo and dig bogging down. The problem with the stock Axial and 95% of the stock ESC's including that Traxxas, is that the internal BEC is set really fricken low. Sometimes they are only 4.8 volts.......If you want to remedy that problem for good, you need to install an external BEC that will supply all your servos with a constant 6v(or whatever your servos needs are. Some BEC's can do a lot higher). There are many threads on here for instructions on how to install a BEC and they are dirt cheap(usually around $10). I use one from my Helicopter in my Scaler and it works just as good as one made specific for cars, ir by a company that only makes cars.....WARNING: Never set the BEC higher than your servos can handle.... If you need assistance, I will post more.. Z |
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Up next dual steering in front.. Btw I looked at getting a higher torque servo 200+ oz. but just want something different from the norm...
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Looks good... the dual steering servo setup's different but... never know [8D] Yep Dig is nice. Even though i don't "officially" have DIG on my car but i have had enough times where my rear driveshaft comes loose and I make the "most' of it [8D]
Side note: You can take the stock Axial links and measure out 1/3 of the length. Bend to a 30* (inwards from the short side) and you have 30* custom links on the cheap.... I did that on the rear of my axial and (without running) they look like they will have a ton more clearance than the "interjunky" things :eek: Keep up the good work, now all we need is a vid [>:] |
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here is an action pic...
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