Cardboard RC Ramps - How to build them and what is needed to build over engineered cheap ramps!
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- Опубликовано: 3 сен 2021
- Hello all! I know many of you are rolling your eyes and shaking your heads…. Card board??? Really??? Yup, and here is why. It is a free byproduct of all the other crap you are already spending money one, so bonus- It is something that anyone can do- when you are done with it, it is still cardboard so you can recycle it and build a new one- and not everyone has a budget for ramps or a yard they can tear up to jump things- lastly, why the heck not?!?!?!?
Seriously though, just a quick video explaining how I make super cheap and effective ramps for small cars like my new Mini B. Any smaller and lighter weight cars and trucks can use these. Or just make them for your kids for their toy cars. Or you can just make them to learn more about the jump geometry and how your car reacts to different angles… I don’t know, just make some and go have fun!!! 😊
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you know with all the damn cardboard we all have lying around the house these days any use you can find is a great idea. I swear the cardboard industry has got to be booming.
Yes! I Could have a whole track set up just made of cardboard! They are great for basement or driveway racing, especially with the mini cars. I agree, the cardboard companies are probably running at full capacity all the time!
Thank u, I’m new to RC and I’ve been wanting a ramp but I didn’t want to pay 20-40$ for one
You're welcome and the sky is the limit in designing them. Have fun!!
Thanks man. I'm a 40 year old engineer and I still found this video very helpful. I'm building a basement track for my Mini B. The area is multipurpose so I put down cheap low pile carpet from Homedepot and will use portable cardboard ramps.
Thanks, they are super cheap and you can change up the designs of them to suit your needs and it is always fun to change up the track a little! A carpet track in the basement sounds like a ton of fun!! Those little buggies are terrific. Have a great time with it and thanks for watching!!!
thanks bro love Rc
Glad you enjoyed it! Have fun building some ramps!!
If your playing on grass buy some long nails and pus them in the ground on a 45°angle pointed to the center of the ramp to keep it from moving.
Yeah that would work, should not take too much to hold it steady!
Nice. I never thought of cardboard. Thanks for the new knowledge.
Thanks! The season of tons of deliveries is upon us so lots of free ramps and jumps should be showing up soon!!
@@AddamsPlayground So true 👍
I need to make one of these. I have 1/10 and 1/14 cars
They do work better with the smaller cars, most due to the size restraints a lot of time. If you have big enough cardboard them you just have to beef them up a little for the 1/10 scale. A few extra ribs and another layer on top should be plenty. Have fun with it!
this helped a lot
That's awesome! I can't tell you how many of these I have made over the years. Back when I worked in a cabinet shop we would race them mini-t trucks around and we had tons of these of all shapes and sizes.
@@AddamsPlayground wow
Cool 😎
Glad you liked it, have fun!!
The cardboard makes it really easy to shape, and test whatever ramp you want to build. I saw a guy on YT doing these paper mache pumpkins and he has a nice recipe to make this potentially into something that will hold up outside. this could be a good addition to making these ramps hold up for a long. I believe his name is Drachenfang here on YT. I think I am referring to this video title: " Paper Mache Pumpkin Version 2 - Part 1 Intro and Materials "
Cool, I will have to check it out! The card board make it super easy and cheap to build small jumps and you can fine tune them to your cars and find what shape works well for them.
Awesome information 👏🏾
Thanks! Cheap and easy way to have some fun! Glad you liked it!
Hey bud I finally got a chance to look in my motor box and found some decent stuff for I think would be cool
Awesome, send me an email. You can find it on my about page - www.youtube.com/@AddamsPlayground/about
I can't type it in here or the comment will get blocked by YT. Thanks for thinking of me for sure!!
@@AddamsPlayground ah it's cool just keeping in the loop just keep an eye out for an email from me I'll send a few screen shots of what I'll be sending u
Great video addam. Our wood wedges work well but are hard on the trucks. I’ve watched about 7 videos tonight on this, and leave it to good ol addam to have the best cardboard ramp building video on boobtoob 😁
LOL, thanks! At the cabinet shop it was super easy as cutting the ribs was super easy. Trace one inner brace and stack a bunch up and cut them on the band saw! Then it was just assembly line work to hot glue them together. Two of us could get 5 or 6 ramps made in about 10 minutes! We had dozens of them hanging around. For the bigger trucks you just have to beef them up and we usually covered them in two layers of cardboard to make them hold up.. have fun!!!
guys if your going to go the cardboard route instead of wood just do a quick fiber glass layup on it scratch the surface lay your fiber and epoxy then it will last forever
and you could fiber glass 100 of these for like 8 bucks
That is true, not really kid friendly project but they can build the ramp and then the adults can help with the epoxy! I am grown and get that stuff all over!! LOL!
@@AddamsPlayground TRUE BUT IF ADULTS HELP COULD TEACH THEM A NEW SKILL AS WELL
Awesome video man thank you for helping 😎😎😎😀😀😀
Glad you liked it and hope you have fun building all kind of ramps and jumps! Thanks for stopping by and checking it out!
awesome vid, love this.
Awesome! I am glad you liked it and hope you create all kinds of fun stuff! Thanks for checking it out and taking the time to comment, I appreciate y!
Here for tutorial for Lego ramp thanks for nice vid
If I still had my Legos I probably would have made one as well, I know did back in the day!! Thanks for stopping by and watching!
Hi thanks for the video i just made my own ramp following your guide. Any other tips or recommendation so that the ramp won’t slide easily on concrete/road?
You can do a couple things, add hot glue to the bottom edges and it will help it from sliding some. Also you can add a little weight to the underside by hot gluing a small container (something that would probably end up in the trash or from the recycle bin like a pringles can, small butter tub or something) full of rocks or dirt to add some heft to it. Think cheap and disposable. The container can be reused on future ones. Have fun!!
Dude thank you i was toying around with a few ideas on how to do this found your explanation very easy to follow do you think if i increase the amount of ribs and add a few top layers i could get it strong enough to hit flat out with some 1/16 and and maybe a 1/10 at a push
Certainly, we used to make them for the 1/10th scale too. More bracing and an extra top layer will make them way tougher. Make sure to add some hot glue to the bottom of it or take some nails and stake the corners down when running the bigger ones on it. They weigh more so they tend to push the ramps all over the place! I used to work at a cabinet shop and most of our plywood would come covered with 4x8 sheets of cardboard so we had some serious ramps back then! You can go to your local lumber yard and ask if they have any for cheap or possibly free!!!
@@AddamsPlayground awesome idea i shall deffinetly do that lol
…. It was my tape but it was 15$ for the tape gorilla wall tape isnt cheap, but makes amazing ramps with how thick it is
Yeah, that gorilla tape is tough stuff but it is pricey! I have tried regular duct tape and it works but you cannot get it as rigid as you can with the hot glue.
@@AddamsPlayground very true i just made a few kicker ramps and a backflip ramp, i wanna make a loop-da-loop but im assuming ill need very strong stuff for that 😂 nice ramp btw im gonna attempt making it tomorrow
@@MythicYetiiiiii tis the season of lots of Amazon boxes!!! LoL lots of free ramps! A loop would take some engineering for sure!!
For mine I make 1 cut on the side to keep the structure of the box. With this way I get 2 ramps from 1 box. Then I can put them together to have a ramp for a 1/10 vehicle. I have an example of this on my Instagram.
That is a great idea! I have always done it this way since when I worked at the cabinet shop we would get huge 4x8 sheets of cardboard all the time from plywood shipments and there was an endless supply of ramp building materials!
I got a carpet foam is that good for a mini rc race track?
I am not sure how well it would hold up, I have never seen anyone try it before so may be uncharted territory! I assume the foam would be high traction but also likely to break down in the corners fairly quickly but that is just a guess. most indoor surfaces are an indoor/outdoor carpet and it holds up well.
@@AddamsPlayground i will try it and i will let you know
Blaa lol
Ramp or jump anyone...
This was one of the "I have nothing really to video, what can I do for a video" times and I remembered the jumps we made at the wood shop for the old mini-Ts and this has actually been one of the more viewed videos I have ironically!
How can you make a video on building a ramp and not at least demo the ramp?🤔
Not one second of footage with a car using the ramp?😂
Also cardboard gets destroyed when wet so I use corigated plastic sheets (from old yard signs I have kept for the material) as they are both stronger and waterproof while still being light weight.
Well it was how to build a ramp, not how to use a ramp. LOL!
It was a video I did when I had no other material to use at the time. We built them all the time at are cabinet shop to goof off with and they are not meant to be permanent. They get beat up and worn out and you make different ones for pennies. Glue stick are super cheap and carboard is free.
I mean by all mean s make it out of whatever you would prefer. This video did good for me, one up me and make tougher ramps and demo them on RUclips, folks will watch!