How to scratch build your chassis.

Parts needed:
4 stainless steel tubes
Piece of flat stock stainless steel.
2 Brass Bushings
Guide Flag
Body pins
Axle
Set of wheelie wheels, a complete set of wheels and tires.

Some of this ideas are not all mine, as I looked at some of the chassis
Dave West from New Zealand posted a few years back on Bracket500.com See link
This takes a lot of patience, the know how to use a soldering iron and measuring.
Make sure to prep all you pats before soldering.
Take a few minutes and round off where ever the round tubing is going to meet tubing.

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build
Parts cut and fitted.
tongue for guide flag
build
Bushing posts
build
Motor sized for mount
build
Motor mount with bushings set-up.
build
Tested rear wheels
with axle.

build
build
build
build
build
Motor Box.
Wheelie bar is short because of body used.
I used the Precision
Slot Car Axle Blocks from the WRP C series fixture ro set rear axle.
 Small brass tubing was used for axle mounting
Rear: wheelie wheels bar shorten to fit under trunk area.
build
build
Final pictures after body mount as I'm searching for a small spring to make it easy to remove the body. Stay tuned...


Front stance.
Rear stance.




Final thoughts on making your own strachbuild chassis, there are many ideas out there, ask some that have build such chassis and they will be glad to help you with suggestions. You will learn many things by building your own chassis, patience is the most important one, as you dry fit before soldering, then afer you solder the pieces don't look right, so you have to take it back apart and come up with a better way to excecute your plan. Take your time and you too can build something like this.

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