Introducing a 3D-printed DIY powered 2-axle chassis

A 3D-printed powered chassis for 2-axle locomotives.

Can be used for old trams, maintenence vehicles, railcars and so on. Designed to have good crawling performance, use readily-available parts and be FDM-printable.

Full project description is here

2024

Updates

The 3D printable files for RC truck are published!. The link is on project page, and for convenience also here:

Moving on to RC transmitter

I’ve created a page for the development of the transmitter. Expect updates there. So far I’ve created a breadboard prototype that is able to c...

Updates on the projects

There were no updates for a long time due to my vacation, but finally here are some.

Crane updates

The crane mechanics is close to completion

Casting solder into resin-printed molds

Last time I tried to pur solder into a hand-cut cardboard "mold". The result was as inaccurate as one would expect. My attempts to smooth it out with epoxy...

Experiments with cast solder

In portal crane project the hook has to be as heavy as possible, otherwise the threads will not be tightened enough and will skip all the time (and will l...

Motor board for portal crane

For some time I’ve wanted to develop a PCB again. Last time I did that was around 2021, when I made LocoNet-equipped decoder and command station for...

Slip ring ideas, two of them

The functional crane model I’m working on requires a slip ring to rotate superstructure. Currently this is implemented as a 3D-printed casing for bron...

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2023

A gondola wagon, now with cargo

Making cargo for a gondola ended up being longer than printing the gondola itself. I had some sticks and branches lying around, that I cut to length and g...

Project: Flatcar series 13-401

A new project: Flatcar series 13-401. A model of a flat wagon, which is widespread in USSR, Russia and other 1520mm guage countries.

Another tank container assembled

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I’ve assembled, primed, sanded and painted second container variant (frame2). Here are the pictures (along with frame1 variant). New variant is in red.

Another tank container

This week I’ve added one more tank into my tank container collection, codename frame2. It turned out to be much more complicated that previous design...

Introducing project: a tank container collection

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This week I’ve reworked my older tank container into a collection of different options, so they add some variety to the layout. For now, there are 2 ...

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