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The driveshaft seems alright. The wobble is from the wheel/tyre - it's not true or balanced.This car never touched the ground...
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The driveshaft seems alright. The wobble is from the wheel/tyre - it's not true or balanced.This car never touched the ground...
Yes, it wouldn't be on my rig like that - it would be straightened because it's not arrow straight. No good for speed running. Fine for blasting around a field."This breaches my tolerance threshold. The shaft is wonky and your wheel is out of balance. Both matters need to be addressed"
You post that in my thread for this matter!
While waiting for the parts to arrive, can you suggest any other upgrades I should implement before I (finally) start bashing?
Motor mount?ShockTowers? etc..
Certainly it’s yours to use as you wish, or not, but these are toys. How I see it anyway, never perfect, life’s too short IMO. If it shakes, no big deal, even if everything is perfectly straight and balanced, does it really stay that way? Not for long. Just my view.This car never touched the ground...
Horses for courses!Certainly it’s yours to use as you wish, or not, but these are toys. How I see it anyway, never perfect, life’s too short IMO. If it shakes, no big deal, even if everything is perfectly straight and balanced, does it really stay that way? Not for long. Just my view.![]()
No shame in keeping things "hot n ready"! LOL. All my rigs get parked in the barn, shiny doesn't equal faster, though it helps spot problems before they become failures. IF I were keeping them in the Castle, you can bet they'd be clean, I'm fanny-whipped too! Mama don't take kindly to that stuff!Horses for courses!
Toys in the same way that Yachts are for those that can afford them.
I always used to look at my RC cars as a sport. Until I wasn't racing, then I realised it was 'just a hobby'.
So it's all relative I suppose.
People can draw their own conclusions with regards to how straight their rigs should be. If they're being run in the dirt every day and left in a barn afterwards, then I suppose there's less of an incentive to keep them spotless.
Old habits die hard with me. Stuff has to be ship-shape, all of the time. It pains me when stuff is either dirty or broken.
That said, I do hide my rigs in the garage for a night if they're too disgraceful to bring into my RC room.
The main reason for this is that I am fanny-whipped.![]()
I just got that mail as well!
And strangely enough just received as well.I just got that mail as well!![]()
That's good service
That's good service
I must say, it is amazingly good service. A company holding its hands up and saying yes we agree that's not good enough let's make it better and we'll do it for free.It is. Nice one TC.
Dave from scorched parts was asking some questions.
Wouldn't it be great if we saw parts for TC?![]()
It is. Nice one TC.
Dave from scorched parts was asking some questions.
Wouldn't it be great if we saw parts for TC?![]()
I’ll have to drop some pics on his fb when I get my build done then give him a push. The hubs really wouldn’t need much adaptation to fit a corally , really just the internal bearing being different size & width for axles don’t think that would be a massive design change.It is. Nice one TC.
Dave from scorched parts was asking some questions.
Wouldn't it be great if we saw parts for TC?![]()
A small rubber O-ring works better than shims to preload the bearings and eliminate bearing wobble but then some space has to be designed in between the hex and the bearing for that. This allows preloading without risk of overloading the bearing by adding too much shim because the O-ring as some flex to it. JR Propo does that in the tail grips on the Forza 700 helicopter but the same idea would work here. The problem with the tail grips is that they are on a solid steel hub and spindle so manufacturing tolerances are such that there has to be a bit of play designed in between the tail blade grips and the hub or else you risk the bearings sometimes locking up when the spindle screw that holds it all together is tightened down if the tolerace of all the parts stack up too tighly. You can shim that out but that risks too mutch shim damaging the bearings as you experiment. JR Propo opted to put a 1mm space btween the inner hub side bearing and the hub and then a 1.5mm cross section o-ring to preload the bearings in the tail grip.That would certainly reduce the size of the spacer required if I run with the Corally hexes.![]()
That's a thrust bearing right - like what we might find in a 1/10th ball diff.A small rubber O-ring works better than shims to preload the bearings and eliminate bearing wobble but then some space has to be designed in between the hex and the bearing for that. This allows preloading without risk of overloading the bearing by adding too much shim because the O-ring as some flex to it. JR Propo does that in the tail grips on the Forza 700 helicopter but the same idea would work here. The problem with the tail grips is that they are on a solid steel hub and spindle so manufacturing tolerances are such that there has to be a bit of play designed in between the tail blade grips and the hub or else you risk the bearings sometimes locking up when the spindle screw that holds it all together is tightened down if the tolerace of all the parts stack up too tighly. You can shim that out but that risks too mutch shim damaging the bearings as you experiment. JR Propo opted to put a 1mm space btween the inner hub side bearing and the hub and then a 1.5mm cross section o-ring to preload the bearings in the tail grip.
The wheel hex and hub bearings on an RC car has similar problems and so a simlar solution would work.
Eliminating hex wobble could be done with the addition of a setscrew to the hex that would lock it down to the axle. The pin and setscrew would be installed first as normal then the "anti wobble" setscrew in the side of the hex would be tightened last. This is a mod you could do to existing hexes with a drill press and thread tap.
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It's two radial bearings with a thrust bearing on the end of the stack that takes up the load through the outside tube of the outer bearing. They don't show the bearing that is installed under the thrust bearing on the outside in that diagram. Some designs have the thrust bearing in the middle of the stack instead and in that case the load is passed through the center tube of the outer bearing to the bolt that holds it all together. There is always a shim between the outer radial bearing and the thrust bearing either matching the OD or ID depending on which way the load gets passed through the bearing. The tail spins at around 9,000rpm and without the thrust bearing the radial bearings would lock up under the centrifugal load.That's a thrust bearing right - like what we might find in a 1/10th ball diff.
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