02-02-2015 13:08

ratdude747

Re: pic: 1747 Drivetrain teaser

Looks nice, Glad you guys (and gals) are keeping up the old tradition of having a killer drivetrain.

02-02-2015 17:24

kitare102

Re: pic: 1747 Drivetrain teaser

Are the tan things in your 1x1 tube wood fillers to help with mounting to such thin stock? Cause if so, that's a pretty cool that I might need to look into sometime.

02-02-2015 17:27

wilsonmw04

Re: pic: 1747 Drivetrain teaser

I have done that in the past to help drill through thin stock. It keeps you from collapsing the walls.

03-02-2015 19:19

PandaHatMan

Re: pic: 1747 Drivetrain teaser

This is true. It prevents us from over-tightening bolts . We also decided to do our entire frame from 1/16th box stuffed with wood because it weighs slightly less than 1/8th. It means we run through less stock and less money than mixing the two and we can stuff only the pieces we want. Even better, stress analysis through Inventor shows it to be much stronger than just 1/8th box channel .

Originally our plan was to use T-nuts as much as possible, but we found it unnecessary after getting into build season a bit more.

04-02-2015 10:18

JesseK

Re: pic: 1747 Drivetrain teaser

What type of wood? Does the stuffing run the entire length of a rail?

04-02-2015 13:47

Addison4300

Re: pic: 1747 Drivetrain teaser

I'm Loving that outer frame of the base, Very nice!

04-02-2015 14:19

PandaHatMan

Re: pic: 1747 Drivetrain teaser

We stripped down some pine 2 by 4 boards to a 3/4 by 3/4. The stuffing does run the length of the frame. We are using the frame to mount most of our components to, so we wanted plenty of options for interfacing different parts.