Introduction
I’m engineering minded, but not finished degree yet.
I just like to build and design things.
Was thinking of 4ever printing my own parts for an rc car, but not experienced on 3d printing yet
@Michael_Austin welcome to the OpenRC community, I hope you will find answers to your questions here!
Day dreaming of getting specs to print the body and frame of a 64 Austin-Healy and then putting in the circuit boards, and all to make it rc. But honestly is rather make it gas powered, not battery, unless someone here convinces me otherwise.
Stupid spell checker converted 3d into 4ever (again) I hate spell checkers at times
Unless you want unlimited run time, electric is cleaner, quieter, faster, cooler and simpler to setup, operate and maintain.
I like gas, and other than heat issues when filling the tank, it’s unlimited run time, and a little more power.
Petrol or Nitro doesn’t have more power. Electric has better acceleration, more torque and with the right kit will have an uncontrollable top speed. It’s also cheaper to run. With electric when it doesnt work either battery is dead, motor fucked or speed controller fucked (the last two don’t happen very often unless you chose the wrong parts). With a runny fuel burner you have to say a prayer to the internal combustion Gods every time you want to start it…
I like nitro as well but I wouldn’t try it on a 3d printed truck yet. I have enough troubles with heat warping parts in other projects that I think the motor and exhaust would just warp everything around it. I foresee the motor mount warping over time resulting in a lot of stripped spur gears.