Overhauling Cyclone TC drive shafts

[lesbaldry]

Normally when the shaft wears and has lots of play/slop its the alloy dog bone pivot hole that wears oval towards direction of rotation,so fitting the HPI repair kit 75188 ( 4.4mm hardened steel pivot,needle pin and grub screw) is a waste of time.

To my surprise I have found that the Xray T2 008 drive shaft's pivot is exactly 0.1mm larger in diameter (4.5mm) so with a bit of carefull working with a Dremel and small post stone the alloy Cyclone drive shaft can be worked to accept the slightly larger pivot...Xray part No 30 5231 £3.99 each

Xray had to be good for something ;D...Sorry Pete that one was hard to resist

[yellowshark]

Apr 11, 2009 19:05:57 GMT @lesbaldry said:

Xray had to be good for something ;D...Sorry Pete that one was hard to resist

LOL Les, almost good enough for BGT ;D

At the opening round of the Southern Touring Car Championship, SHMCC fielded 3 drivers in the A finals. Graham was driving an XRAY, now Jason, yes he was too 'cos it had all orange bits on it, and we know what Craig drives. Goodness me, that means they were all driving XRAYs, what a coincidence

[lesbaldry]

Apr 11, 2009 21:11:52 GMT yellowshark said:

Apr 11, 2009 19:05:57 GMT @lesbaldry said:

Xray had to be good for something ;D...Sorry Pete that one was hard to resist

At the opening round of the Southern Touring Car Championship, SHMCC fielded 3 drivers in the A finals. Graham was driving an XRAY, now Jason, yes he was too 'cos it had all orange bits on it, and we know what Craig drives. Goodness me, that means they were all driving XRAYs, what a coincidence

Well I supose some one has to drive them ....Was that 10,9 and 8 placings on the grid with other makes faster pete???lol

Ps do you have a spare ESC drive shaft in your pit box,I would like to put a vernier around one to see if they might fit the old Purple plodder

[yellowshark]

Apr 12, 2009 18:09:13 GMT @lesbaldry said:

Apr 11, 2009 21:11:52 GMT yellowshark said:

At the opening round of the Southern Touring Car Championship, SHMCC fielded 3 drivers in the A finals. Graham was driving an XRAY, now Jason, yes he was too 'cos it had all orange bits on it, and we know what Craig drives. Goodness me, that means they were all driving XRAYs, what a coincidence

Well I supose some one has to drive them ....Was that 10,9 and 8 placings on the grid with other makes faster pete???lol

Ps do you have a spare ESC drive shaft in your pit box,I would like to put a vernier around one to see if they might fit the old Purple plodder

Lol Les I wasn't including all the other XRAYS just the SHMCC ones ;D Yup you can mearue one next week; mind out though its an XRAY part 9th, 5th and the other was mid pack I think