Sorry, I thought you might have cranked down on the nuts that hold on the wheels so much they were digging into the rims, if I am not mistaken, the wheel nuts (which are steel) would bear down on the rims (which are usually aluminum or plastic). If not, I miss interpreted.
Well, it's neither. It's from nintendo first generation. lol From a game called contra, it would get you 25 lives. I think they came out with a new version of it so you younger guys might have heard of it. THe game came out in the 1980's:fro:
You could make the shafts fairly easy, if you decide to make them use west system epoxy instead of polyester styrene it's much stronger. You can get threaded inserts from mcmastercarr.com
glue these in with the epoxy and you could have a bullit proof setup. Hmmm I have about 4 yards of carbon...
Ask yourself this, when you where a little kid, did you ever want to play with weed wacker engines? Do you like dirtbikes? From what I have found, if you are mechanicly inclined, you would lean towards nitro.
A good solder temp is from 380 to 410 deg. You must have atleast 85% of the original length so you don't get any signal degradation. Tin the bare wire before you solder, this is better than feeding solder because it limits the amount of solder you use and prevent cross buss solders, whis is...
Hey, I bet no one here knows where that "up up down down left right left right B A start" in the controller pic came from. I will give you a hint, its a code to get more lives on a game.:smart:
what game is it?:breakdown
Thanks dude, this place and the people mean alot to me, I am glad everyone is happy to see me return. I hope I can learn what I have missed and maybe teach a little while I am at it.
Thats ok, you can keep it dude. I will make them someday, so you can say you have the first:hehe: . I gotta talk to Chris about my revolutionary driveshafts........oops did I say that out loud lol.