W.I.P. my h1 humvee diary

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Damn man, that's so clean! I really cant wait to see more.
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That's looking amazing!

The chassis is so clean, it's almost a shame to go offroad with it. Almost.
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no concrete-floor sanding for this one, huh??
hell yeah, 10 seconds on the concrete versus 30 mins with fine sandpaper! :-o
Where did those screws come out of?
i don't quite remember, probably out of some old electronic thingo that i butcher for parts. walkmans are a great source of micro mounting hardware :-o

i forgot to mention what i used for the h plate, it's plastic from a floppy disc. :-o
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betty.k wrote:i forgot to mention what i used for the h plate, it's plastic from a floppy disc. :-o
And now you have a floppy H-plate... great. :lol:

Man this is coming out well.. I like it... :-o
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Post by ibjamn »

betty.k wrote:
Where did those screws come out of?
i don't quite remember, probably out of some old electronic thingo that i butcher for parts. walkmans are a great source of micro mounting hardware :-o
Yeah. I've been harvesting some stuff out of old broken car audio cd players.
Great for odd-ball gears too.
You have got to see the stuff in a Indash 6-disc changer :shock:
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got some bodywork done today.

busted out the floppy disc plastic and made a slope back, i wanna keep the panel lines.
the beauty of doing a rough military style is you can get away with some rough patches :-o

i ground down the hood vent and filled the chassis tab holes too.
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masked up the windows and threw down a quick coat of primer.
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aside from a tiny bit more sanding i'd say it's done. i'll finalise the mounting then finish painting it.
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:-o lookin' good betty. Gonna' go with a military scheme or something different ?
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honda_s2000 wrote::-o lookin' good betty. Gonna' go with a military scheme or something different ?
he wears camo pants all the fucken time anyways, so bet's on it's gonna be camo, lol.....
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yeah, olive drab military look. maybe camo if i can be bothered :-o

so on with the chassis.
i used some thin metal (floppy disc again) to make a motor cover which hooks over the idler gear axle and is held in place with a screw.

i also ground down the chassis where the knuckles go to gain more suspension travel up front. i trimmed some off the tie rod also and i got about .75mm more travel out of it.
you don't want to go too far or the knuckles will pop out at the top.

i removed the stock charging plug from my cheapy heli, as you can see it's tiny so it won't take up much space at all. :-o
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i installed the guts again, glued the charging socket into the chassis and mounted the lipo. there was more room than i originally planned so i was able to lay the lipo back almost flat.
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i've wired the switch so the the cell is either connected to the charging socket or the pcb.

to prep the pcb for final installation i bridged the 2 tabs where the switch normally is, already a switch on the main power.
i removed the crystal socket and hardwired a trimmed crystal straight to the pcb.
for the steering (as mentioned in sat4life's mr01/zzse mod) you will need to connect a 10k ohm resistor across the servo pot tabs as the mr02 pcb uses a 5k ohm pot and the zzse pot is 10k ohm.
wiring the 2 resistors in parallel (zzse pot, 10k ohm resistor) halves the resistance and doubles the wattage.
end result is a 5k ohm zzse pot. :-o
there was some servo shaking at first but fiddling with the steering trim on the pcb fixed it.

topped it off with a guitar string aerial.
all it needs now is for me to paint the centers of the wheels, the silver sticks out like dog's balls!
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just a little more clearance than stock :-o
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Post by hue35 »

God damn betty, that's incredible. Fucking incredible. :shock:
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meh, suck his dick why don't ya! lol.....

nah, it is a very nice piece of work. I've had the luxury of seeing it take shape in the "flesh".

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Post by Maxximum Attack »

Looks great betty, nice fast work too :-o
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Post by honda_s2000 »

hue35 wrote:God damn betty, that's incredible. Fucking incredible,absolutely fucking incredible. :shock:
What he said, plus a bit more :lol:
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sweet something of somewhere!

the king of offroad has done it again!
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Post by Clint »

Holy crap thats friggin awesome work :!:
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