Teach Me

[Flexibel_kampfe]

dude thats horrible.... do you do baloon animals?

Yep... ten dollar... it love you long time... pick your shape....

 

[weekend-fun]

Agreed... or buy some cheap ones(obviously an angle grinder and welder/OA are minimal..)

But you could get a nice fixer-upper for perhaps $100-200... or a new one for a few hundred more..... and then when that gets old, and when you get older, then fix it up...

Like me, I am 15, but the only reason that I am willing to undertake the task, is because I have worked around tools and machines all my life, constantly building stuff... But, it honestly sounds like you haven't, and are just doing it for a rainy day project....

My advice, wait until atleast High School, when you can find out the formulas that you will need, and be able to comprehend the basics...

-Respecfully
Flexi

Im sorry i will have to disagree. Im not realy looking for a rainy day project. As i said in my first post, im not a rich kid who wants a go kart and dosent want to deal with buying one. Im looking for something to get into. Yes i havent been around tools all my life, but ive been doing DIY stuff forever.
I just dont want to seem like a kid that watched a few videos on youtube and wants to his own kart. That would make me feel like most kids, grown up in the computer age and expect everything done for them. I feel im more creative than that

but yes, im going to wait a few years. im still going to do reasearch.
respuctfully
sam

 

[Flexibel_kampfe]

Okay, glad you heeded advice, and didnt take it too personally..(I seem always to rub people the wrong way when I get down to brass tacks.)

If you are wanting to do a project, and dont need it to be off road, but maybe just a non motorized down hill kart(Cali has from my understanding some nice hills), then perhaps try to do it out of wood. Contact your local Wood Workers Guild, as they maybe able to assist(the yearly fee for them is like $40) you in creating it from wood...

That is what previous generations did. But, one word of advice....Dont do it on a busy street... since it makes a mess(you getting hit by the Mac truck coming along at a buck ten)

Or you might even be able to do it on a less bumpy hill, if you add a simple roll bar...


This would be more simple, and would be about a tenth of the cost.... since wood is fairly cheap, and most people own a hammer and a saw...

-Respectfully
-Brendan

 

[freakboy]

(you getting hit by the Mac truck coming along at a buck ten)

LOL a mack truck CANT do a buck ten... but a semi hitting a person at anyspeeds above 5 miles and hour isnt a nice looking sight...

 

[Flexibel_kampfe]

Going down a hill? I think it could, if it builds up momentum...

Cali is said to have a lot of hills(Ie the ones that you get air on when you go down quick...)

 

[chevy_cow]

if you build a rolling one be sure to have (good) brakes

 

[Flexibel_kampfe]

Yes or learn the Al Bundy line well "No brakes! I have no brakes! *Boom....*"

 

[freakboy]

Going down a hill? I think it could, if it builds up momentum...

Cali is said to have a lot of hills(Ie the ones that you get air on when you go down quick...)

If a truck is goin down the hill that fast theres something wrong and no matter whats in its way its gona be gone..

 

[weekend-fun]

Okay, glad you heeded advice, and didnt take it too personally..(I seem always to rub people the wrong way when I get down to brass tacks.)

If you are wanting to do a project, and dont need it to be off road, but maybe just a non motorized down hill kart(Cali has from my understanding some nice hills), then perhaps try to do it out of wood. Contact your local Wood Workers Guild, as they maybe able to assist(the yearly fee for them is like $40) you in creating it from wood...

That is what previous generations did. But, one word of advice....Dont do it on a busy street... since it makes a mess(you getting hit by the Mac truck coming along at a buck ten)

Or you might even be able to do it on a less bumpy hill, if you
add a simple roll bar...
This would be more simple, and would be about a tenth of the
cost.... since wood is fairly cheap, and most people own a hammer and a saw...
-Respectfully
-Brendan

thank you, that's not a half bad idea being me, by the time I get bored of it, I'll be in high school! It'll be like soap
box derby!
Sam

 

[weekend-fun]

Oh and the are I'm in has ALOT of hills. Should be fun until the tree come into veiw.
And about the mac truck going what crazy speed, i wouldn't be surpirised if a 16yo with ulimited texting did that.. Lol. Like the time I saw this man in a army transport truck try and park it into a very crowded parking lot......