How to Install Recovery Points
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:26 am
Ok, so I know from time to time you're out wheelin' with some of the guys. ![Image](http://bitpimps.lixlink.com/pages/phpGallery/albums/userpics/10088/Out_Wheeling.JPG)
For whatever reason, you get stuck... Stuck bad. One of the guys has a winch, so you should be good, right? Once you're stuck up to your ass in alligators, you realize that a winch doesn't do much unless it can be fastened onto your rig, and you finally realize why he's got those silver things under the bumper.![Image](http://bitpimps.lixlink.com/pages/phpGallery/albums/userpics/10088/TowPoint1.JPG)
![Image](http://bitpimps.lixlink.com/pages/phpGallery/albums/userpics/10088/TowPoint2.JPG)
Those are "Recovery Points" so he can hook on a winch, a rope, a chain, or whatever else it takes to get his ass unstuck. Right now you really wish you had a set. Sure, you could call in for the "Big Giant Hand" to assist you to the other side of the obsticle, but it sure isn't gonna make you look cool. Now, if the "Big Giant Hand" only had to drop a hook into your recovery point, and let you get yourself out; you wouldn't quite be as wicked as if you'd driven through it yourself, but you won't be the loser that has to have the "Big Giant Hand" pick him up at every scary obsticle!![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
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The first thing is deciding if you want your hooks Inboard (like on the front picture), or Outboard (like on the rear picture). Once you know that, you need some chain, mine is chromed steel and came out of a $0.25 gumball-style machine that sold fake jewlery for kids. Then you need some kind of glue, CA, Epoxy, Testors red, doesn't matter just as long as it'll bond between plastic and metal well enough to hold about 90 grams (zz-m only weigh around 70 grams)
Set your chain in place, dot of glue, hold until it cures/flashes.
![Image](http://bitpimps.lixlink.com/pages/phpGallery/albums/userpics/10088/RP_2.JPG)
Repeat for the other 3, then give it a few days incase the glue has to harden further.
Then you should be ready to mount body and hit the Trail!
![Image](http://bitpimps.lixlink.com/pages/phpGallery/albums/userpics/10088/RP_3.JPG)
If there's interest, I'll elaborate on building hook ends for winches, tow-straps, or chains.
And (since every article about anything not on pavement ends with it) remember, tread lightly.![GOOD :-o](./images/smilies/icon_thumbup.gif)
For whatever reason, you get stuck... Stuck bad. One of the guys has a winch, so you should be good, right? Once you're stuck up to your ass in alligators, you realize that a winch doesn't do much unless it can be fastened onto your rig, and you finally realize why he's got those silver things under the bumper.
Those are "Recovery Points" so he can hook on a winch, a rope, a chain, or whatever else it takes to get his ass unstuck. Right now you really wish you had a set. Sure, you could call in for the "Big Giant Hand" to assist you to the other side of the obsticle, but it sure isn't gonna make you look cool. Now, if the "Big Giant Hand" only had to drop a hook into your recovery point, and let you get yourself out; you wouldn't quite be as wicked as if you'd driven through it yourself, but you won't be the loser that has to have the "Big Giant Hand" pick him up at every scary obsticle!
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
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The first thing is deciding if you want your hooks Inboard (like on the front picture), or Outboard (like on the rear picture). Once you know that, you need some chain, mine is chromed steel and came out of a $0.25 gumball-style machine that sold fake jewlery for kids. Then you need some kind of glue, CA, Epoxy, Testors red, doesn't matter just as long as it'll bond between plastic and metal well enough to hold about 90 grams (zz-m only weigh around 70 grams)
Set your chain in place, dot of glue, hold until it cures/flashes.
Repeat for the other 3, then give it a few days incase the glue has to harden further.
Then you should be ready to mount body and hit the Trail!
If there's interest, I'll elaborate on building hook ends for winches, tow-straps, or chains.
And (since every article about anything not on pavement ends with it) remember, tread lightly.
![GOOD :-o](./images/smilies/icon_thumbup.gif)