tossedman Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 I've been slightly obsessed with building my radio controlled VW Beetle for the upcoming crawling season here in Calgary, much to the detriment of any toy trains. I bought the STL files for a Beetle engine and printed it at Shapeways. Believe it or not it was printed as one piece. A bit of paint, wires and a small rubber band for the fan belt and Robert's your father's brother. And then, since I'm going crazy with this thing I added a sound module. Now on to finishing the body. I've got lots to go here before paint goes on. Cheers eh, Todd 10 Link to comment
Ewan.in.gz Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Todd, Now that is AWESOME! Nicely detailed and painted engine too! Looks much nicer than any of my real cars ever looked under the hood.... Ewan Link to comment
tossedman Posted March 18, 2018 Author Share Posted March 18, 2018 Thanks Ewan. Now I'm hacking the bottom of it apart to be able to mount it onto the chassis. I'll post pics later. Todd Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Another one of those things I've always been interested in, but I really shouldn't buy one, since there's not really any clubs nearby, plus I'd likely want a kit rather than a ready to run thing. and kits are becoming less common. And I don't have time for it ... Of course, I do have a Tamiya 1/16 scale remote control Tiger II tank with sound module and all that :) Link to comment
tossedman Posted March 18, 2018 Author Share Posted March 18, 2018 Martijn there are still kits to be had. It's a lot of fun and scale crawlers don't need a ton of space. I frequent the RCCrawler.com forum as well. There seems to be a fair Dutch contingent on there. I don't have time for it either but it still somehow happens. It's lot's of fun. Tanks are fun too! Cheers eh, Todd Link to comment
brill27mcb Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 Look into adding an oil drip module... Rich K. (used to own VW buses) Link to comment
cteno4 Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 Groan yes, ‘64 bug for many years! jeff Link to comment
tossedman Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 On 2018-03-18 at 7:27 PM, brill27mcb said: Look into adding an oil drip module... Rich K. (used to own VW buses) Is this a real thing or just that black stain on the garage floor maker? 21 hours ago, cteno4 said: Groan yes, ‘64 bug for many years! jeff Sounds like you had that same module... Link to comment
cteno4 Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 My bug was given to me by my best friend in grad school when she finished (well for $20 to dodge taxes). Over the years I think replaced everything on that bug except the chassis/body, stick and steering wheel. Fenders, hoods, floor panels, seat covers, bumpers, interior, brakes, steering box, transmission, engine, lots of the wiring, all for practically nothing from Brazilian parts. Made a teak dashboard and woven leather streering wheel, deep blue paint with deep sparkle flakes and clear coats to float them. The thing was a beauty in the sun! License plate of course cteno4 for what it looked like. I saw It last year in the classic import shop in Monterey, for sale! It was still in great shape, teak dashboard gave it away. Miss the zing sound of that engine. Had to draft semis to get it over 60mph usually! Probabistic steering was also fun, you aimed at a place and there was a nice probability distribution cloud of where it would actually go.even when tuned to the max it would spew hydrocarbons off the chart sadly. jeff 1 Link to comment
macdon Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Todd, thats too sick brother! You made a cage for that yet? Ever thought of adding a small dc motor to make the pulley turn as well? Maybe sync it with your 540? Mardon Link to comment
tossedman Posted June 10, 2018 Author Share Posted June 10, 2018 (edited) On 6/8/2018 at 10:07 PM, macdon said: Todd, thats too sick brother! You made a cage for that yet? Ever thought of adding a small dc motor to make the pulley turn as well? Maybe sync it with your 540? Mardon Thanks Mardon. No cage yet. Still slowly adding details to the engine. Added a fuel line and generator wires last week. Pics below show the engine and the front view. Tons to do on it yet. Thought of the dc motor idea. Worried about heat and melting the 3d printed engine. Cheers eh, Todd Edited June 23, 2018 by tossedman 3 Link to comment
serotta1972 Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 Wow, that's awesome! Scale RC crawlers are pretty darn cool! Link to comment
tossedman Posted October 26, 2019 Author Share Posted October 26, 2019 I'm building a Sand Scorcher crawler as well. 3D printed another engine. This one on my home 3D printer. It's a bit smaller than the last one. It'll go in this black Bug. 5 Link to comment
caffeinatedgeek Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 Nice crawler you got there. Link to comment
tossedman Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 Finally close to finishing my second RC Bug crawler. 5 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 That’s slick todd! Kudos! jeff Link to comment
Ochanomizu Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 (edited) So, I click on this thread and get the following message on AVG: "We've safely aborted connection on tossedman.com because it was infected with HTML:Script-inf [Susp]." For clarity, that's when I click on the thread under "Other Hobbies" ... not clicking on any link in the thread. Edited August 19, 2020 by Ochanomizu Link to comment
cteno4 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Try again and see if it happens again. I found that the first post had an embed link to a jpeg on Todd’s server that was not resolving so I removed it. jeff Link to comment
Ochanomizu Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Hi Jeff, Happened again, just now. Exactly the same message when I open the thread. Link to comment
tossedman Posted August 20, 2020 Author Share Posted August 20, 2020 (edited) Unfortunately my server is no more. Any pictures linked to there will not appear. I've replaced some but need to upload more to here on JNS. I've just uploaded what I think ws the original image in the first post to the JNS server. Sorry! Edited August 20, 2020 by tossedman Link to comment
cteno4 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Not sure what’s going on here anymore, but I expect as just an oddity of Ochanomizu‘s spyware scan software. I’ve looked at the source code of all of Todd’s posts and no links to his old server left and nothing odd in them. If you are concerned then just don’t come back to the post, but I cannot find any malicious code in the posts. jeff Link to comment
Ochanomizu Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 (edited) Hello, Here's a screen grab of what appears every time I open this thread. I'm using the AVG software "out of the box". Edited August 20, 2020 by Ochanomizu Link to comment
Ochanomizu Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 I can solve the problem ... by not opening the thread. 😀 Link to comment
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