Yes, I know it’s almost end of March, but I finally got around the finish editing the various clips together from the Xmas crawl at Bracken Rocks (2015). If you’re not aware Bracken Rocks is where the RRCI Scale Nationals (now known as RCCarZone Scale Nationals) is hosted, and the first G6 competition is to be hosted here. It’s a great area for crawling, I would recommend anyone into crawling and scale rigs to attend the scale nationals, weekend of banter and driving.
Hope you enjoy the video.
With work and other commitments, the D90 crawler project has come to a standstill, a lot of work has happened but we are still quite far from the finish line. Thought I would upload a number of images I have taken.
Another Sunday so headed out early 7.30am just as the sun was coming out, light rain but nothing to bad. Went to some land nearby as we had not crawled there in a while. Was going well until I heard a branch breaking, turned out it wasn’t a branch and instead my drive shaft link to the rear wheels broke.
Got to order a new part now “vtr232072”, seems quite expensive for such a small part. Also noticed some of my tyres are letting water in and one seems to have lost all air and is flat. More work to get this thing ready for the G16 national event next year.
After some searching on the internet I have found a number of Defender D90’s which use the van / box backend type of look. I really like the look of the environmental agency vehicles with their side sliding entrance sections.
Decided I am going to be aiming for something based on these images with my own touches. Have the ascender looking good in no time, after its little accident… Take a look.
Thought I would upload a damage report from the other week, simply put the truck looked like it had been involved in an explosion. Hope you like the images and video, was a good crawl but now back to the workbench. Since I need to piece the shell back together including strengthing the major cracks I have decided to close off the back section making a van, after looking online I am going to be aiming for somthing along the lines of an environment agency vehicle.
This was a test of a friend’s homemade servo winch to see how well it would coupe with a vertical deadweight lift, it did really well and lifted itself all the way up to the hook. Got a bit warm but no burning smells or fires, very impressed.
This was a converted high torque steering servo, with the rope attached directly to the servo motor spindle and using a simple on / off / on switch to control the power to the DC motor for both in and out direction. Hope you enjoy the video.