Shockwave36 Conversion build

[Mich. Maniac]

I would agree feigo is 10 and use a lighter or Heat gun to shrink tube using a light just hold flame under and spin wire around to shrink evenly. NOT IN THE FLAME!

[saleens7]

ok...5mm it is then..

[saleens7]

just bought the feigao 14XL and a deans to tamiya adaptor for the triton yesterday...wish the 4mm bullet plugs to deans connector was in stock though, as that was what i was aiming to get....i would have gotten the power source instead of the motor, but it was out of stock....

question before i do buy the power source, is 10A enough to run the triton on?

[saleens7]

the feigao and adaptor came in today...when you look at the pics of the motor, i see little indents that look they they are there to hold the front and rear motor plates from sliding out...if that is what they are for, i wont need a thrust bearing, right?

[SJFE]

I use them to take the travle out of the rotor. It still drifts.

[saleens7]

(pressed enter too soon, retyping post)

[saleens7]

yeah, i noticed it had a lot of play, much more than the quantam...i also noticed there was hardly any resistance when i spun the shaft, where with the quantam there was a lot of resistance...

what i am more worried about is the play, if i full throttle it from no throttle, it will be like hitting the shaft with a hammer (not as hard, but you get the picture) and over time, it might eventuallu knock the rear motor plate loose...what i have been wondering is how do you get a thrust bearing on the shaft....i imagine that for it to stay tight enough on teh shaft that it will tranfer the push of the prop to the motor casing, it must fit very snugly, so i imagine it would be very hard to get on...

[saleens7]

just bought the power source, 4mm bullet conectors for motor/esc (5mm was out of stock), banana plus to deans adaptor for charger, deans Y harness, and triton temp sensor thing....

talked with the people ill buy the batts from...theyll cost 149$ total...wont buy them until tomorrow....and best of all, i dont have to pay! (i love birthdays....although christmas is still better...by the way, my b-day is this saturday

[saleens7]

just bought the batts...they ended up costing 65$ per pack (12 cells per pack) and that included cost of labor....they should have them built withing 3-5 days and they'll ship it out right after that...i cant wait...

[Doozie870]

The thrust bearing will slide right on the motor shaft, the coupler needs to be touching the bearing, you may or may not, have to shorten the output shaft to achieve this fit.

[saleens7]

the coupler isnt even all the way back....and there already very little room between the motor plate and back of the coupler...

[saleens7]

just sealed up any uneeded openings in the boat

(front and rear vents, exhaust hole, antenna hole (re-routed it to come out of the side of the boat)

[Doozie870]

Not sure what your talking about, does the motor have a real short shaft?

[saleens7]

no....you said unless the coupler was touching the bearing, it will fall off...the coupler i have will slide back even further than where it is now and its already close to the motor plate, so if i did have a thrust bearing in there, the coupler would probably be able to move back far enough to be touching the thust bearing to hold it in place...

[Doozie870]

I dont remember saying that it would fall off. Sounds like it will work just fine.