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How to Make a Homemade RC Car

Having your own scaled down vehicle is understandably popular and remote control cars remain among the best-sellers in toy and model shops. It can be a very absorbing hobby and real enthusiasts often get more involved by building their own machines. Just as hot rod fans make their own machines to maximize their performance, a home built remote control car is not only an enjoyable project but also gives a personalized end result.

Things You'll Need

Remote control vehicle kit
Rectangle of plate steel, six inches wide and a foot long
Four steel clamps
Four steel screws
Screwdriver with a Phillips head
Graphite powder
Four washers
Adjustable wrench
Four steel bolts
Two-way radio frequency electric motor
Wire strippers
Four resistors
Rubber cement
Drill or awl
Four-inch rod of steel
Steel head that rotates with a 1-inch diameter electrode

Instructions

Making the Car's Body
- 1
  Check the contents of your vehicle kit which should contain four tires, two axles and the casing for the remote controller that actually controls the car.
- 2
  Use the clamps to fix each axle firmly to your metal plate. The axle with movable ends for steering is the front one.
- 3
  Pour some graphite powder over the end of each axle before affixing the four tires. Use the wrench to tighten the washers which keep the tires firmly in position.
- 4
  Use the bolts to fix the radio motor at the passenger side on the corner of the metal plate. Strip the plastic from the wire made of lead and affix it to the copper ring on the right end of the front axle.
- 5
  Find the steering wire in the motor (generally colored green or red) and affix the steering wire firmly to the anchoring point which protrudes from the front axle, found at the bottom right.
Making the Controller
- 6
  Glue two of your resistors inside the remote control casing with rubber cement. Keep them about one inch apart.
- 7
  Locate the center of the gap between your resistors and bore a hall through the casing for the steel rod to go through using a drill or an awl.
- 8
  Take the electrode on the spinning steel head and fix it to the steel rod inside the casing. Clip the plastic knob from the remote control kit to the steel rod's end outside the housing. This is how the car is steered.
- 9
  Take some of the coating from the trigger wire's end and corrugate the ends round one of your resistors.
- 10
  Click the two halves of the controller casing together before screwing the aerial firmly on the top. Now you can start driving.

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