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shreddy
Joined: 09 Jan 2009
Posts: 518
Location: Wantirna, Melbourne
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thanks guys, it means alot
well i pulled out hurricane on chrissy to show the cousins and I was hugely surprised to find the shell is almost perfectly balanced, I didn't balance it after the latest work i did on it
so yeah, this was the first weapon test with the shell at the new speed AND BOY DOES IT HIT HARD!!!
in one of the old vids i have of weapon testing hurricane some of you may remember the old industrial guttering I used (4kg+) that got effortlessly thrown aside, well it hitsit even better now. I unfortunately didnt film it coz i was preoccupied about all my cousins safety.
Lets just say from now on I'm not going to do any more weapon testing in my garage on big, heavy, hard and sharp things. I basically edged hurricane into one end of the peice of steel and it was such a huge hit that it managed to hurl the thing so hard at the back wall of my garage that it bounced off it and 'helicoptered' its way directly at me about a metre in the air. It ended up touching down at my feet (8-10m away) still spinning and I actually had to leap in the air to miss it. Of course I wasnt expecting it and it slammed into my ankle leaving it a little swollen and painful to walk on for the next few days. lesson learned.
I spun it up again to show it to people who missed it the first time but a left-hand thread screw worked its way out sending the wheel into the shell at full speed. It managed to smear the tread allover the chassis, which is lucky this new version has the sabretooth in the box now! It smashed up the box a bit so i just reinforced it with ducttape
So yeah I got that all fixed and went to take it out for a test but what do you know, another problem. One side of the sabretooth is playing up now and I'm waiting on a reply from dimension engineering about getting them to repair/replace it (and yes I even told them about my fried esc in hope of a half price replacement )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=057sInhtvms
note: the motor sound is not from the malfunctioning side, i disconnected that one.
and time for a few piccies:
I had to shim up the thrust washer on one side because my shaft is at a slight angle
some debris smeared all over it
the battery still isn't safe! time for a little sheetmetal armour
some 'tread dust'. straight after it happened this stuff was wafting out of the shell and made me panic because it looked exactly like smoke.
the wheel that caused all the trouble, it's missing a few chunks
before
after
and heres the little lump on my ankle I got. It doesnt look that bad but it was painful to walk on and I had to use an icepack. It even slightly split the skin on top from the blunt force
remember, don't try this at home! _________________ http://au.youtube.com/user/crustydemonsully
The day I stop giving 100%, is the day I stop competing
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