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--- cars:frames [2025/02/10 20:03] – created - external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ cars:frames [2025/02/14 11:15] (current) – Nedra
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-====== Car Frames ======
+====== Chassis ======
+It is absolutely crucial for you to build a chassis for your kart. do not rely on the plastic ride-on children's toy you use to decorate you kart to suffice as your frame, even if it contains a mix of plastic and metal pieces.
-More than likely you will need to reinforce your Power Wheels car frame to support the weight of batteries, motor/motors, and a grown adult driver. Or just scrap it completely and start over.
+The typical chassis for a Power Racer is made of mild steel, usually square or round hollow tube stock, angle stock, or similar. these pieces can be purchased from a metal supplier, or scavenged from dumpsters, etc. Metal queen/double bed frame is a fair source of "dumpster grade" angle for a chassis.
-Lot of imaginative options are out there, but most common is to weld up a steel frame. Some people use old bed frames, some use square tube...
-You can build a frame, or part of it, using wood. This has its own pros and cons...
+===== Welding Info =====
-Some teams have used 8020, and at least one team was investigating the use of Unistrut.
+Making a "good enough" weld for Power Racing isn't nearly as difficult as you may think, if you've never tried your hand at it before. Generally, make sure your metal is clean and free of galvanization, rust, paint, etc before you go to make a weld, and check for good penetration as you go.
-====== Welding Info ======
-====== Tips & Tricks ======
-Useful conversations pilfered from Facebook posts
+===== Tips & Tricks =====
+Useful conversations pilfered from Facebook post:
   * [[Failed Weld - possible bad weld wire (filler metal) or low amperage]]