Been working again

[waaytoomuchintothis]

I have had a painted body of the gorgeous Fly Lola for quite a while and I finally got around to it. Its the yellow one. I used printed circuit board material for a plate chassis, with brass soldered to it, suspending the front axle well above the plate. The drive unit is an old Fly pod drive, motor and drive axle as one.

[4424ever]

Any pics of the chassis Rob

[SpeedyNH]

exactly.

[Fathead59]

yes , when you say circuit board chassis would love to see it

[waaytoomuchintothis]

I took one shot of the chassis while I was still building, but whether I find it or not, I'll have a picture tomorrow of the finished chassis.

[waaytoomuchintothis]

Okay, finally got on this. The shot I did before was for a diagram I want to put together to try to be able to print a chassis plan using these elements, just rearranging the parts to fit whatever I'm trying to do. So, it would be useless to post. I took another picture, and here it is. I try to make a chassis as simple as possible. The only other thing I would do to make this version better is to cut kerfs on either side of the motor/axle carriage for flex. I've done that with this PCB material in 1/24th, and it worked great. I'd have to thin the material to compensate for the lightweight 1/32nd. The places where you see double layers is to "sink" the screw heads to allow for the lowest practical chassis height.

[SpeedyNH]

my friend Woody used to make G-10 24th Eurosport chassis. they worked pretty well. we used to call 'em "plastic wood". the pnly problem was that sometimes the soldered-on parts would lift the copper clad.

[waaytoomuchintothis]

I worried about that when I started using the stuff. I found that using a higher temp soldering iron prevented spending too much time in one spot, and I couldn't lift the copper with pliers on the brass piece I soldered.

[SpeedyNH]

sounds good.

[Fathead59]

One question , what type of motor pod are you using ?

[docdoom]

looks like fly motor pod

[Fathead59]

Thanks Doc

[waaytoomuchintothis]

I could swear I said that in the first post. Oh well, yes, that's an old Fly motor pod. I bought a handful of them years ago and have been happy with them again and again.

[Fathead59]

And Way , I want to say I am sorry , I didn't read the first post as closely as I should have