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Only a few hundred left to go!!

Now how cute is this! What a little darling she is! I took Olivia down to see mum at the horse show. Livvie was happy to sit down on the grass and watch the world go by. She also had her first ice cream!

Jackson finally got his trophy at soccer the other day. We were all pretty stoked with his effort on the day! He deserved it.

Here’s Jack with another of his creations! He’s lego mad at the mo…

Looking good! I’ve managed to get the motor mounted with safe cover for the cogs and motor bits. The electric speed controller failed so it’s running fast all the time so I have ordered a new more powerful one off the net.

I’ve also butchered a 3 channel RC plane to get the servo’s out. I’ll use these to remote control the motor’s cutoff switch and potentiometer (speed).

Also managed to get some Disc brakes off TradeMe from an old bike so that’ll be some good stopping power!

It’s a bit of a ‘Frankenkart’ but looking good! However Jack isn’t going on it until I have all the safety and ‘remote’ systems in place.

He’s going to love this! I’m trying to get it finished before Zach comes down for a holiday 🙂

Twit note:
As side note, all this effort, many hours researching and building and the one thing I overlooked was the direction of the motor. Ha! It was running in reverse the way I had it setup. Sheesh what a walley!

All credit to Ben Viv though who pointed out I should just flip the motor and cogs to the other side. That’s what mates are for – to aid us walleys by pointing out the obvious I overlooked.