Planet Minis

s_10onbagz

cool. I think a good deal is determined by what the spare parts bring on eBay.

MoTo_XXX

dude you sure did get bargain of the century

over here in australia we pay $500 for a stock xr/crf/z 50 engine

--X--

nice score on the parts.

Can you post some details on the powder oven build? Are you using plans?

VillainMotorsports

Specs on the oven are; 3 feet wide X 3 feet deep X 5 feet high (inside dimensions), 3 inches of mineral wool insulation all the way around, two 3000 watt and one 3100 watt @ 240 volts elements. For inner and outer framing I used 1"X1" angle iron and some 1"X2" hollow rectangular steel for the door frame and door. The temp controller I'm using is a PID that controls a solid state relay to switch on and off the elements inside the oven (accurate to +/- 1 degree) it's all digital and programmable.

As for plans, I'm not using any, building it from scratch by myself with a few ideas from pictures on another message board.
I'll try to get some pictures of the oven in progress up tomorrow night if I have time, I just got my outer layer of sheet metal delivered this afternoon so I'll be pretty busy, should be ready for a test burn by next week, anyone need a big batch of cookies

As for the Z50 builds, looks like you guys will have to subscribe to the magazine when it comes out, Nick contacted me last night about putting the builds in the mag, so there will be no more updates on here

VillainMotorsports

I guess I didn't take too many pictures of the oven as I was building it, here's one of the inner section framed and sheet metaled, and the framing for the outer section.


And here's the finished oven, should be able to fit at least 2 mini frames in at a time


I haven't coated anything yet in it, need some more powder. But I did fire it up and it'll reach 500 degrees no problem so I can do ceramic coatings on exhaust systems too

507 brett

i got a qa 50 for 40 bucks at on of my bros races!

but it looks like you def. got ur 325 worth if those motors run

Z50King

those wheels

are awesome

moto234

thats pretty lame, at the rate this magazine is coming along we are never gonna get to see any of your builds again lol
not saying nick is doing a bad job but we arent hearing of any progress, just alot of threads gathering pictures. im sure its hard to start a magazine but thats not cool to take away from the site. almost everyone on here is gonna subscribe anyway

VillainMotorsports

I'm thinkin' the same way, the magazine is a great idea and a great way to grow the sport. I mean, seeing it beside transworld and racerX at the newsstand would be pretty cool. I may have to decline the offer of a magazine only build as I kind of like the fact that I can post my progress on the boards here and get "instant" feedback on ideas and suggestions. I'll do some more thinkin' about it, and let you guys know next year...haha

HAPPY NEW YEAR!