RC Wheel Balancer for 1/10 or 1/16 Vehicles by luisfjdesigner3d

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

This wheel balancer that I have designed myself and have the two main essential black pieces 3-D printed out at one of my local hobby shops, and for the handle I bought PVC pipe from a hardware store to cut down on costs and I also needed to bearings hex nut
and i need one front axle form a RC vehicle but I purchase the spare parts themselves and used one of them to build this device. If you decide to download this file you will need

You will need 1/2"2 PVC pipe can get them at a hardware store of your choice.


You will also need four screws this rules must be 3x23mm


You will need one front axles from traxxas part no.3637


You will need one hex nut from traxxas part no.3654


You will need two bearings from traxxas part no.5116

You will need one pin part no.2754
So now I will go ahead and explain to you how to assemble it. In one of the photos
you see one of the two 3-D printed parts behind it is the bearings, hex nuts, and the front axle.
So we will go ahead and assembled this part of the wheel balancer.
In the next photo you see the same parts behind it is the dremel power tool infront of it are some bits to be used with the dremel power tool. Why depending upon your 3-D printer you will have to do some dremeling (sanding)to get some of the rough edges out and to remove the excess out of the area where the bearings are going to be fitted in.
After you are done with the dremeling (sanding) you will begin to fit in the bearings as you see in one of the photos where I just dremel out the excess to help fit in the bearings better. And also in one of the photos you will place the bearing on the other side of this part of the wheel balancer as well.
In the next photo you should get and idea how it should look like after you placed in the bearings in this parts
of the wheel balancer.
After you are done you will go ahead and insert one of the axles into the backside of this parts of the wheel balancer. As you see here in the photos on how I did that.
after you are Done with the assembly it should look like this as you see here in one of the photos.
In the next set of photos you will insert a pin on to the hole on the axle as you see here in the photos and you should get the and results in the next photo.
Then the next thing you will do is to insert the hex nut as you see here in one of the photos.
And then after that it should look like this as you see here in one of the photos.
So after you are done with that you are going to take the 3-D printed bigger part of this wheel balancer and use the dremel to sand out some of the excess so you will be able to fit the 3-D printed part on to the PVC pipe.
After you got that done do a test fit to make sure everything fits in correctly. If not
do some more sanding.
After you're done with that as you see here in one of the photos decide how much link that you want for the handle and then cut the PVC pipe to the link that you want.
After getting the PVC pipe cut to size done as you see in one of the photos the parts
now ready to be assembled.
As you see here in one of the photos is the PVC pipe the other 3-D printed parts with the
the 3/4"1/2 PVC Male adapter I am using this part because I wanted to upgrade this
wheel balancer later. But not necessary but would help.
So what I did here in one of the photos I installed the PVC male adapter onto the
PVC pipe itself and then you superglue to glue it in place.
The next thing I did is to get the paint job not necessary but I did it because
I want this to look good.
After getting that done I have to sand some of the excess paint off of the PVC pipe
so I can fit the 3-D printed part in.
After getting that done I you superglue to secure this 3-D printed part on to the PVC pipe
as you see here in one of the photos.
After getting that done you will start inserting the screws in to the first part
of this wheel balancer that involves the bearings and front axle that has been assembled
earlier.
The next thing you will do is to insert the screws through the holes as you see in the photos
on where to put the screws in as you see here in one of the photos.
Then the next thing you will do is just to screw this part onto the handle itself
After that the wheel balancer should be completely assembled as you see here in the photos.
Then the next thing you will do is take one of your wheels and test it out to make sure
that everything works so now you can go and balancer wheels with out blowing a lot of money so enjoy