Theory build

Old 04-14-2011, 10:59 PM
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Since I was in Elementary school I dreamed about building my own car from scratch. For years I bounced around ideas, performed heavy modifications to vehicles, but never had all the equipment or training to do everything. Well I am in my senior year of the technical training to be a High School shop teacher and finally have the training (basic) and equipment. I am in our final semester and I am taking a CAD/CAM course that focuses on design and CNC through the use of Auto CAD and Mastercam.

I told myself I wasn't going to do an epic time consuming project but here I am after a few hundred hour of design in Auto CAD, unknown hours agonizing over the tool paths in Mastercam and around 7-8 hours on machining time on the Haas VF-1 CNC mill.

Today (April 14, 2011) I cut out the majority of the chassis parts, including the chassis, front and rear bulkheads, motor mount, diff holders and brace, as well as a few other little parts.

I will try to get pictures up this weekend so you can all check out what i'm up to.

I DON'T THINK THIS BUGGY WILL BE LIKE ANY THING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE and should make for some interesting conversation.
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Old 04-14-2011, 11:02 PM
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I don't want interesting conversation. Build us the ultimate RC machine! Good luck bro. Look forward to updates.
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Would Love to see Pic.
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Cant wait to see what turns out! Have to start somewhere and it sounds like this is gonig to be awesome!
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well done, show us some cad designs
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Pics man! Unfair to tease us like that!
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Old 04-18-2011, 02:20 AM
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Originally Posted by NitrousBIG
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I will try to get pictures up this weekend so you can all check out what i'm up to.

I DON'T THINK THIS BUGGY WILL BE LIKE ANY THING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE and should make for some interesting conversation.

Weekend's over, mate!
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you have my attention

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