Drivershaft, a bit of progress

It's been a while from my last post but I have made some progress with the driveshaft. I don't have a deadline for my project so I don't have any rush either :-)

OK let's cut the bullshit and get in business. So now the driveshaft is almost ready. I have made the joint to the other end and put some paint on it. It was a tricky challenge to make a 3mm cube and put two axles through it and one of those axles had to go also through the other. The fitting could have been a bit more precise but anyhow I did it and the joint is fully functional. I made those axles of two screws. The bigger one was a 3mm screw which I slimmed down to 2mm. I drilled a 1,25mm hole through the screw and made M1,6 threads to it and then put a M1,6 screw through the hole. Well maybe the pictures tell better what I mean. Next big challenge will be the rear differential. We'll see what's going to happen with that.

Driveshaft

I am missing couple of screws and washers to finish the gearbox.

In the mean time I decided to start planning the next step which is obviously the driveshaft.

First I was thinking to use the original driveshaft from the Revell kit, but it turned out to be impossible. the shaft is actually more like a half of a shaft as you can see from the picture below. Also the joints in both ends are only lookalikes.

So I decided that I will do the driveshaft myself. The shaft itself is almost ready but I still have to make the joints. Here you see couple of pictures how it looks at the moment.

Gearbox

Hi guys!
Corvette project goes forward slowly but steadily.
as yo saw from my previus post I am trying to fit an electric motor inside the V8 housing. i have made some parts now which will tie the electric motor and the axle together.

I have a small CNC router which I used to make these parts. i used two types of plastic. I don't know whar that black plastic actually is but it was very soft to machine. Let's hope that it isn't too soft so that my M1.6 threads won't brake out. the white plastic is POM (polyoxymethylene) plastic which seems to be much more harder but still very well machineable. I have got both of these plastic as left overs from a nearby machining company.

Here are couple of pictures how the engine gearbox combo looks now.

That's all for now. I'll be back again after I make some more progress.

Stage 1: engine

The Revell user guide starts the building process from the engine so I decided to do the same.

first I decided to cut out all the parts that are needed for the engine. I managed to get some blood out of my thumb with a knife when doing this so let's try to be more careful from now on.

Here is a picture of all the parts needed for the engine.

Engine and gearbox were originally fixed together but I decided to cut them away from each other. My plan is to hide a small electric motor inside the engine housing and get an axle out from the gearbox.

Here is the idea that I am planning.

I also found an old cell phone from my shelves and decided to try if I can use the vibration motor to make the cooling propeller run.

After some (careful) knife usage I was able to hide the vibration motor inside the V8 block.

The Start

I have already started the building process a bit of earlier than I started writing this blog.
But no worries I have taken pictures all from the beginning.

Here are couple of pictures of the set that I am working on.

Hello World!

This blog is here to tell a story of a 1:8 scale Corvette Stingray 65 building process.
I have no idea how long it will take but we'll see :-)

I have bought a Revell 1:8 set to make this happen. However as a diy man I want to put also a bit of my own spice into the soup.

At least these goals and specifications should be fulfilled along the way:

- the Vette has to be remote controlled: forward/backward movement, steering
- doors have to open and close
- driving lights have to be illuminated
- engine has to look like it is rolling: cooling propeller has to rotate
- there has to be a functioning suspension

I try to make all above mentioned features happen in a way that the car still looks like real.
Let's start with these specs and let's see if we can figure out more along the way.

I am happy to hear your comments as the project goes forward

Happy reading,
DIYMAN