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kibble

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Ha ha, my friend emailed and linked me to your video some time ago and he said in the email: "Build me one!" Then while I was watching the video my gf walked up, saw it and said: "OMG someone actually built one?" :roflol:

Glad to see you ended up here on this site. :D

I believe there was some talk a while ago on here about how to get the steering done on something like that. Your system looks pretty nice.
 

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ya I have thought of that ..but thist T-kart is the first kart (the one that will get me out there) I have a few more to build befor I start to think about building multipuls. I dont want to be focusing all my attn on one ... you know ( don't put all your eggs in one basket)
 

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I am working on a new kart, much easer then the batmobile, its a pritty effeciant design. when I'm don with it it will be able to stand on end and fold in half, taking up less floor space for easer storage. I have a differant youtube chanel Tmanskart with a capital "T"
 

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I am haveing a little trouble trying to figure out the band brake set-up and what typy of motor to use. I would like to use a little weed trimer motor because they can sit at an angle but I cant seem to find a sprocket that would fit. the sprocket thats on the wheel is a 41. does anyone know??
 

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I'm assuming you want a small sprocket for the engine? If so, maybe you could buy a #41 sprocket with an undersized bore, then drill or machine it out to match your engine shaft. Or deliberately purchase one with a larger bore than you need and make a bushing to go inside. Or buy a sprocket without a hub and have it made or machine it yourself.

There's several ways to solve this problem, depending what you have access to, what you want to spend, and what is convenient.

While I think selling karts like this on ebay, mail order and through retail outlets would be an amazing thing, I personally would be terrified of the potential liability.

About five years go I cobbled together a CNC-controlled plasma cutting machine to mass produce roosters made out of 22 ga mild steel for some guy I met on the internet who was cutting them out by hand with tin snips and couldn't keep up with his customer demands.

Anyway, I had quite a few screwups left over that I wasn't going to send him but they looked good enough to sell as a single, and I did just that on ebay. A month after I sold one, I got a nasty letter from a lawyer out in Iowa because his client bought one of my metal roosters and cut his finger on it pretty bad, to the point where he needed orthoscopic surgery to gain use of his finger back.

My response was "read the text on the auction which is binding and legal according to ebay - sold as-is, no warranty or liability of any kind assumed, implied, or offered.

So if some putz can almost bleed to death after puchasing a weather vane I can only imagine the liability of someone buying a fancy, quick kart like what you're making T-man.

I mean by all means go for it, but I would find an attorney that could help you draft up a no-liability document of some kind and include it with every sale just to protect yourself.
 

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I saw that. But if a woman can get $10 mil for burning her privates with a cup of coffee and sue McDonalds, well, I still worry.
 

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Oh ya ... thats one reason why I don't build them for people, there is nothing wrong with the design because mine works fine. So if anything happens its their resposability. Plus there are others building them also.
 

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hahah when i saw the bat funnel part i was thinkin u designed some super complicated funel that hangs off your belt lol.
 

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aaa I didn't even think of that, that would have been funny too. I thought that pulling out that big thing out of such a small bax was a good one.
 

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hahaha that was a good vid man... on the subject of "not putting all your eggs in one basket" you could always be a youtube star!!!
 

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that would be cool "youtube star". yet to do that I would have to get a few other people to get involved to be doing editing and sound FX and such and get better cameras .....or become a chick with big boobs.
 
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