W.I.P. my h1 humvee diary

honda_s2000 · Post by **honda_s2000** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:09 pm

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

frizzen · Post by **frizzen** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:58 pm

That's looking amazing!

The chassis is so clean, it's almost a shame to go offroad with it. Almost.

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:38 am

no concrete-floor sanding for this one, huh??

hell yeah, 10 seconds on the concrete versus 30 mins with fine sandpaper!

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

i forgot to mention what i used for the h plate, it's plastic from a floppy disc.

evoraptor · Post by **evoraptor** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:02 am

betty.k wrote:i forgot to mention what i used for the h plate, it's plastic from a floppy disc.

And now you have a floppy H-plate... great.

Man this is coming out well.. I like it...

ibjamn · Post by **ibjamn** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:44 pm

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

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

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:52 am

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

i ground down the hood vent and filled the chassis tab holes too.

masked up the windows and threw down a quick coat of primer.

aside from a tiny bit more sanding i'd say it's done. i'll finalise the mounting then finish painting it.

honda_s2000 · Post by **honda_s2000** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:15 am

lookin' good betty. Gonna' go with a military scheme or something different ?

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:08 am

honda_s2000 wrote: 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.....

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:23 pm

yeah, olive drab military look. maybe camo if i can be bothered

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.

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.

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.

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!

just a little more clearance than stock

hue35 · Post by **hue35** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:26 pm

God damn betty, that's incredible. Fucking incredible.

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:39 pm

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".

Maxximum Attack · Post by **Maxximum Attack** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:48 pm

Looks great betty, nice fast work too

honda_s2000 · Post by **honda_s2000** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:05 pm

hue35 wrote:God damn betty, that's incredible. Fucking incredible,absolutely fucking incredible.

What he said, plus a bit more

45tr0 · Post by **45tr0** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:59 pm

sweet something of somewhere!

the king of offroad has done it again!

Clint · Post by **Clint** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:42 am

Holy crap thats friggin awesome work