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Old 01-18-2025 | 08:45 AM
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Gorilla glue .... Elmers isnt water board proof
true!
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Old 01-18-2025 | 09:54 AM
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well good news with the new balsa wood chassis is that you can just use Elmer’s glue to glue the bulkheads once the pros use it everyone will follow like lol
I was planning on buying a solid block of titanium and machining it all out with the bulkheads, motor mount, and chassis being one piece. I look forward to the comparison between the balsa wood chassis and my titanium one.
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Old 01-18-2025 | 09:59 AM
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I was planning on buying a solid block of titanium and machining it all out with the bulkheads, motor mount, and chassis being one piece. I look forward to the comparison between the balsa wood chassis and my titanium one.
get in contact with Bert he’s got the hook up for vibranium he travels to wakanda a few times a year
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Old 01-19-2025 | 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Marcos.J
well good news with the new balsa wood chassis is that you can just use Elmer’s glue to glue the bulkheads once the pros use it everyone will follow like lol
Who would use balsa wood for a chassis rofl. I was going to make one for a TC3 and I can't find to top part of it. Anyways, I thought this was funny.
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Old 01-20-2025 | 01:43 PM
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Who would use balsa wood for a chassis rofl. I was going to make one for a TC3 and I can't find to top part of it. Anyways, I thought this was funny.
I was thinking a tungsten chassis and balsa bulkheads. Get that CG down.
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Old 01-20-2025 | 09:08 PM
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I was thinking a tungsten chassis and balsa bulkheads. Get that CG down.
Why stop at Tungsten, Osmium seems so much more interesting or maybe mix both and make Bertungmium. I had 2 Tungsten rings, one I broke with a weak plier, but the plier couldn't scratch it at all rofl.
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I’m waiting for the CNC contoured tungsten chassis. It will need a setup tool since it won’t sit flat on the board. You’ll need a goofy AMX gauge too. Combine that with balsa bulkheads and custom hardware, damn son…
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anyone try a hemp chassis yet?
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Old 01-21-2025 | 10:02 AM
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anyone try a hemp chassis yet?
That would be magical with a lipo fire lmao
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Old 01-21-2025 | 11:33 AM
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anyone try a hemp chassis yet?
I know a couple of racers who would "smoke the competition" so to speak.
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Old 01-21-2025 | 11:38 AM
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There is an urban legend that in NASCAR, a crew chief glued a Schrader valve to the roll cage of his car where it seemed a little hidden, but you could find it in you looked. Someone asked him what it was for and he told them that he had sealed and connected all of the chassis tubes and filled it with helium. He said that this allowed him to run more ballast even lower in the car. For weeks afterward, you would see other cars in the pits with Schrader valves, seeming to indicate that others were wasting a great deal of time and assets on duplicating a lie.
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Originally Posted by NutDriver
There is an urban legend that in NASCAR, a crew chief glued a Schrader valve to the roll cage of his car where it seemed a little hidden, but you could find it in you looked. Someone asked him what it was for and he told them that he had sealed and connected all of the chassis tubes and filled it with helium. He said that this allowed him to run more ballast even lower in the car. For weeks afterward, you would see other cars in the pits with Schrader valves, seeming to indicate that others were wasting a great deal of time and assets on duplicating a lie.
I believe it, I just saw an old video where a driver starts smoking a cigarette in his car lol.
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Old 01-21-2025 | 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Mig89
I believe it, I just saw an old video where a driver starts smoking a cigarette in his car lol.
What does smoking a cigarette have to do with the valve?
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Originally Posted by gigaplex
What does smoking a cigarette have to do with the valve?
American Nascar (redneck racing days) .. you wouldn't understand it.
Its not Technical enough for you

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Originally Posted by gigaplex
What does smoking a cigarette have to do with the valve?
need a breakdown of the concept or are you still wondering if your bearings are going to break?

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