Revolt 30 rebuild

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A friend and I both bought revolts this spring. And after running in stock form we decided we wanted more...
So after getting some great ideas and support from the members here, I dove into the rebuilds.

First thing was to strip out the stock battery tray for a Carbon inlay.
Scuffed it up well with 40 grit sand paper

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On one of them I left the original motor mount in play.


I painted the exposed FG areas to make it look cleaner.



Dual Carbon battery trays were installed.
Later we decided to add a center tray to allow for a single 4s pack to be used.

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Revolt 30 rebuild

First boat all buttoned up with a new Castle 1512 2650kV and a T120 esc with extra cap bank.


Now on the second one I was inspired to go further. I removed the battery tray and motor mount and stuffing tube to do a more complete Carbon inlay.
Stuffing tube was easily removed by heating it first using a soldering iron and then carefully twisting and pulling it out with a pair of pliers while still hot.

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Revolt 30 rebuild

And one piece inlay. Pretty happy with the turn out.


I had one big mess on the Carbon behind the servo mount. In retrospect I should have removed the mount first. Next time.
Fortunately it is not too visible.

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Next comes a custom motor mount. It lowers the motor a few mm versus the stock mount and looks much better. Big shout out to KFXguy for hooking me up with the mount!



I started to try to eyeball align mount and stuffing tube with just a piece of aluminum tubing in the brass to the motor shaft.

I was advised to just use the motor collet and a piece of flex to get a perfect alignment. I made a temporary aluminum bushing to hold the flex in the center of the stuffing tub. Work very well!
I tacked the mount in with JBQuick. And the stuffing tube with 30min epoxy and chopped glass

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After it set, I removed motor and finished the JBQuick job in the motor mount side rails.


Next I reinstalled motor with the same alignment technique to aid in the installation of my stuffing tube support.



Checking alignment often I finally glued in the tube support with JBQuick as well.

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Revolt 30 rebuild

A single battery tray was used in this build. I trimmed the sides of the Carbon OSE tray to allow it to sit as low as possible.


I shortened up the motor wires as much as possible too.



Upgraded servo was installed and a little functional bling was added to the bow

[bh_trade]

CF makes for a nice bling factor itself huh. Nice work!

[shua]

CF makes for a nice bling factor itself huh. Nice work!

Very true. Thanks!!

[TheShaddix]

Really awesome work! Very nice attention to detail. One suggestion I want to throw in is to use some black dye for your jb weld so your joints look black and blend with the carbon. White stands out like a sore thumb in this case. You can still cover those up later too. Other than that, your work is very clean!

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Really awesome work! Very nice attention to detail. One suggestion I want to throw in is to use some black dye for your jb weld so your joints look black and blend with the carbon. White stands out like a sore thumb in this case. You can still cover those up later too. Other than that, your work is very clean!

Thank you for the kind words! The Dye is a great idea and would be a step saver too as I went back later with black paint and covered up the white epoxy to make it blend better. Thanks for the Tip!!

[TheShaddix]

No problem, you can find it on ebay if you look for paint dye or epoxy dye. Painting the welds is not a good idea because the paint will flake off later. Don't put epoxy over that paint because it will just chip. It would need to be sanded down again.

[Tamelesstgr]

Nice job, I hope to learn how to do CF inlay this coming winter. What did you use, West Systems?

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Nice job, I hope to learn how to do CF inlay this coming winter. What did you use, West Systems?

Thanks!!
I want to get a West Systems setup one day myself. But for this inlay I bought this kit.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/321694314441

It came highly recommend and I am happy with it as well.

[Tamelesstgr]

Well, that's an awesome find, thanks for the link.