MT410 V1 Back on the Road

[devnull]

Somewhere around 4 years ago I packed my MT410 in the Pelican case I bought for it and stored it. Just didn't have the time to deal with it and some of the other hobby stuff I was doing at the time. Had an employer that consumed my life.

I'm not dealing with that crap any more.

Moved somewhere I like, which will offer an opportunity for me to use my truck. It's set up for the street, and I'll probably leave this truck that way. I'm thinking I'll buy another MT410 V1 and set that up for abuse. I have a ton of parts.

I bought some new SMC batteries last week. Fired up the truck a few days ago and cogged around the apartment with it on 4S. It seems to be fine. Need to find a few cables I made for the brake lights, but overall it's functioning as it should.

Speaking of cables, I really should go through the wiring and add some connectors and tidy up the cabling a bit - there are lights, GPS, a camera and a buncha stuff that I'm going to have to review as I don't even remember exactly what I put on it.

Here it is in all its glory

I also dusted off my Gorilla Maxx G2R too. That one is a long way from being on the road, however.

 

[TEKNOJ]

Some kind of roll cage on it?

 

[devnull]

Some kind of roll cage on it?

Huh. I thought I'd documented here what that roll cage is. Apparently not. Well, I did in a build thread, but not the last version of the design after I'd destroyed the first version.

It's a roll cage for an 1st Gen E-Revo. I 3D printed a set of mounts in PLA, and after a few impacts it was obvious that isn't a good choice on an RC truck.

So I went back to the drawing board and came up with a new design that I printed in TPU. It handles impacts much better. PLA is brittle and unforgiving. TPU, or at least the version I was using, felt like a hard rubber compound. The rear mount is a hinge to allow the cage to pivot out of the way to allow access for battery changes or maintenance.

 

[TEKNOJ]

You may have documented it, since I don’t have an MT, I rarely read the threads about them.