Rodent Posted February 24, 2015 Posted February 24, 2015 Does anyone make just the Warn-style locking hub that can be added to the wheel of my choice? I could swear that I have seen them somewhere. I checked "the usual suspects" and looked on the Bay, but no joy. TIA
jeffs396 Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Don't know of any in resin, but I THINK the new reissue of the 71-72 Blazer has separate front locking hubs? Maybe someone that's bought it can confirm? Easy enough to scratch build though, pics from my dear departed friend Larry : http://s46.photobucket.com/user/BigEd0601/library/Scout%20Trail%20Rig?sort=3&page=1
southpier Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 excellent building on that link. sorry about your friend.
disabled modeler Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 If I remember right the 72 Blazer kit has the hubs on the front rims...probably going to be the closest you will find.
Fabrux Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 The 72 Blazer has two sets of locking hubs in it, one for each wheel choice. If you don't plan on using one of the sets on anything, you should be able to extract the locking hubs for use elsewhere.
Rodent Posted February 25, 2015 Author Posted February 25, 2015 A member that has some on Shapeways PMed me and I ordered some from him. I will review them when I receive them. I have one of the old MPC Dodge trucks and could have copied its hubs in resin or epoxy, but I was looking for a DIFM solution this time. I am doing enough scratch building and "Imagineering" on this build anyway. Thanks for the responses. I will probably pick up one of the Blazers eventually. I have never had one.
Rodent Posted February 25, 2015 Author Posted February 25, 2015 Imagineering.....I like that! Yeah. It's the reissued Firestone truck with the Model King Open Road Camper on Modelhaus dually wheels. I spent a bunch of time on the internet looking at period photos of the 4x4 trucks to figure out if they had manual locking hubs in '79 or were still using the old 203 full-time transfer case. AMT didn't include a transfer case lever in the kit, so I am going to have to fabricate something there too.
Rodent Posted March 3, 2015 Author Posted March 3, 2015 I got the hubs today from Shapeways. They are very nice! Too bad that my first 3D printed parts are going on such a crude model (AMT F-350) LOL.
c-plane362 Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 Could you please post the link to find them on Shapeways?
Rodent Posted March 3, 2015 Author Posted March 3, 2015 Could you please post the link to find them on Shapeways? I guess that is legal :-) http://www.shapeways.com/product/RD5VYS8S2/1-24-scale-4wd-hub Matt has some other cool stuff too.
shelbrn90 Posted March 3, 2015 Posted March 3, 2015 Would it be possible to see a pic? The design picture on the website doesn't show the lock out detail, I'm curious as to what that looks like. Thank you!
Rodent Posted March 3, 2015 Author Posted March 3, 2015 Would it be possible to see a pic? The design picture on the website doesn't show the lock out detail, I'm curious as to what that looks like. Thank you! I had issues with that too in IE. It works correctly in Chrome.
shelbrn90 Posted March 4, 2015 Posted March 4, 2015 Got it figured out, the picture shows the backside. If you click the box with the arrow it will rotate the picture and you can see the lockout detail, they look nice!!
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