Metal cage.

[John Parks]

I would say a metal cage being anchored to plastic isn't a great idea your just kicking the stone farther down the list of things to break. Now if there was holes in the chassis plate to secure the cage then maybe.

It's actually a great idea, a bumper plastic support is much cheaper than a cage itself.

 

[jkoppk]

Hmm,lots or opinions but no cages.

 

[John Parks]

I'm not a cage designer lol, could I make one sure. Would it hold up who knows. Many arent made because the time invested into these cages is crazy high. Akihiro has generally around 50+ hours in these cages, which is why they sell for $700+. Its a small market for them

Hmm,lots or opinions but no cages.

 

[KurNorock]

Anddddddd it’s bent

Putting a 1000-1590 pound cage on a rock crawler isn’t a big deal, but would you want to put even a 10 pound cage on a losi?

A 20ft stick of 1.75in .120 wall DOM tube weighs in at 40 pounds. If you use 10 sticks to build a cage on a rock crawler you are going WAY overkill and that would still only weigh 400 pounds. Most will only use 4 to 6 sticks adding only 160 to 240 pounds. Nowhere near the 1000 to 1590 you are saying. To get that much weight you would have to build a full tube chassis and use some heavy wall tube for most of it.

The smallest tube I could find data on is 7/16 .065 wall at .25 pound per foot. If we just use simple math and hope that the 1/5 scale holds true, then we would need 1/5 as many feet of tube for a cage witch comes out to 16 to 24 feet, or 4 to 6 pounds. And if we take out the weight of the stock nylon cage that we no longer need, then we are only up by 2 to 4 pounds. If you got some 10mm or 3/8 tube, that would be even lighter, I'm guessing around 3 to 5 pounds.