WORKING WITH BRASS: How to scratch build a 1/24 midget chassis using brass and soldering. (ASMR) 

I hope everyone enjoys this video! If you have any questions, or comments please comment below! If you're interested in other soldering videos....check out this one here.....ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l79Wi1ov33Q.html

You have taken me back to architecture school!!! I had to use piano wire instead of brass. I might start building models again. You get lost in the build and the world melts away. Great job and thank you for sharing in this video.

Why have I never thought of using a soldering iron for little projects like this?!?!? That's like a million times better than a torch 🤦🏻‍♂️ thank you sir! You have just inspired several new projects 😂

Ah... this reminds me of a "rail job" I built in the '60's. I had been making chassis for slot cars, so I had the soldering down pat. I made up the frame, got a blown Hemi from a plastic kit. Did spark plug wires from thread. A rear diff housing from yet another kit. Seat and steering wheel from other kits. The skinny front wheels and rear slicks were from slot cars. A "Moon" tank up front and parachute on the back. Chassis all from brass rod. Looked great. I entered it in a model contest... didn't even place. The winner was a kid that built a model of the Munster Coach, go figure.

It's a genuine pleasure to watch a master at work

This is an Amazing video !! Thank you for sharing your talents on Brass Bending and Soldering .....Truly a MasterClass !!!

as someone who used to build custom rc's back in the day, i never thought of using brass tubes. lot's of respect to you for your creativity, sir.

As a recently retired welder (41 years worth) you absolutely dazzled me! Your channel popped up on my feed tonight, and within minutes I was subbed! My feelings were bruised when you started using that soldering iron though! I recently purchased a similar unit by a different manufacturer (ok, Harbor Freight, but you already knew that didn’t you?), and it is an absolute junker! Tips won’t take solder, and it won’t develop enough heat to solder small copper stranded wires together! Anyhow, excellent build!

Another masterpiece in the making Clay. Been in awe of your models for a while now.

I would have loved to see a whole series on this model build. The result is outstanding!

This flies in the face of YT viewers' obsession with craftsmanship applied to crap materials like popsicle sticks, cardboard, legos, etc. Well done.

First time watcher, here. I had no idea about this craft hobby. But I LOVE it! Looking forward to diving into your previous vids and checking everything out. Masterfully done, sir!

Just a creator and like the concept that anything can be scaled and built a frame for anything model that you can conjure out of imagination. Thank you.

Great vid Clay, thanks for sharing! 👍👍👍

Absolutely outstanding my friend!! Love watching the master!! Thanks for sharing bro!!

Back in the 90's we built our own brass slot car chassis'. We used 1/25th scale race car model kit bodies on them. That is fun to build

This was the fuel I needed to start making Drag chassis. Thanks brother.

This brings back memories building brass pan slot cars.

Clay. This is an OUTSTANDING instructional video. Great style. Keep these coming.

Thanks for the inspiring video Clay, I now have the confidence to work on my Landy projects to build a roof rack and rollcage.

Truly Unbelievable…!! This was BY FAR the Best Tutorials on This Subject..Thank YOU So Much For Sharing… PLEASE Keep Your Videos Coming….👍👍

A master craftsman, exceptionally talented. Racing and sports cars with bird cage frames are very complex great tips on how too make them ,you make the frames look easy LOL 👍👍👍👍

Cool! I broke my PVC scratch build RC Rollcage several times,now its Brass time!

Nice very good video , someday I'm going to try and build one .. Thanks for the video

Another great video….thank you clay

I did this build for a 1/10 scale R/C over 20 years ago, thanks for sharing. ⛏️⛏️⛏️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪💪🎄

Fantastic video !! Back in the late '60s i had grand ideas of scratch building a 1/20 scale rail dragster with aluminum square & round tubing (the scale was to match the awesome '68 Vette and AMX kits that i built) Alas, there was never a finished product as life got in the way but i still have the Corvette & AMX and last summer i started my covid project to replicate each car in metal...just to see if i could do it 😁

Fantastic video. I have always built all my military armor and now big rigs with brass built into their construction....I thought I was alone, til now. Immediately SUBSCRIBED and impressed.

Very accurate to scale spike chassis. Amazing.

Did the brass chassis while in Korea in 1968-69. Built the chassis for a Ford Cobra slot car, was a big thing back then. I was chassis challenged but, I had no parts outside wheels front, rear or sides, challenge denied, I was legal. Built two more before I left from spare parts. Great way to pass time, keeps your mind busy!

I’ve been wanting to build a Funny car chassis from brass. You’ve boosted my confidence thanks. 👍👍😉

Nice very nice

Really enjoying the brass build. All I can say is 'wow'.

Wow, Clay, this is going to be AMAZING!!!!

I built frames like this starting in 1987 but i made them into slot cars with working torsion bar suspension. I used the monogram sprint car kit for the body and rear tank. I made a jig to mass produce them. The wings I made from #1 plastic coffee cake containers, it's almost as good as lexan. I used Mura group 12 motors in them except one I put a group 20 in it. That thing is insane, the group 12 was a better setup for actual competition. Now they sit in front of my desk because most of the slot car tracks have closed. The closest one is 120 miles one way. I made 1/32s also but they have no suspension. Nice job!

I designed and 3d printed a too, to fold 2 and 3mm brass tubes. Extremely helpful!

This is brilliant....great skill and dexterity.

Nice work. We do a lot brass scratch building in 28mm, 1/32, 1/35 and primarily of late in 1:22.5. Couple of years ago upgraded from 30+ years of Weller to Hako, never looked back absolutely love it only regret is not doing sooner. Use a lot of resistance soldering (American Beauty) and sometimes even use a hot air unit (X-Tronic) for soldering. The resistance soldering advantage is its super precise and very little cleanup 👍along w limiting heat affecting nearby joints. Cut a ton of short solder pieces ahead of time and soldering goes super fast. Sometimes we still have to use multi-temp solder if joints are super close. Ditto on using a metal plate jig and magnets (use a mix of low strength hobby magnets along w N42 & N52s), ours has two plates at 90 deg. to each other. Again, nice work! As always YMMV. Just sharing, nothing more, nothing less.

Yes thats great i can lern any more things .Thank you!

Seriously skillful work! I've used styrene rod up till now, I love the way you got both side perfect by soldering them together!

Thumbs up for the great camera work and lack of music. I look forward to seeing how this turns out. Based on this video, I'd wager it'll be pretty awesome.

IMPRESSIVE MOST IMPRESSIVE that was INCREDIBLE. I need to learn how to solder for PE parts for my armor this was an amazing video Thanks Clay!

Thats very cool, I made a 1/10th scale Midget chassis out of Brass about 10 Years ago, Was intending to make it RC but never finished it off. Still have the Chassis sitting on the shelf in the garage thou.

i gotta 3d print one of those flux holders. the tix flux and solder is some of my favorite but i knock over the bottle ever time i work with it

Amazingly satisfied

Brass is my favourite material, along with copper (for decorative) work. In the mid 1960's it was fairly common for more ambitious slot car hobbyists to convert from out of the box cars to constructing their own chassis - 1/32 scale for me. Originally we built them much like this from rods and tubing. The heat would be from a full size propane torch like amateur plumbers use so the work wasn't as easy to do as cleanly as illustrated. Often the heat would undo previous joints. I loved the whole process of learning soldering, metal working, wiring, etc. and I still apply that hobby knowledge to this day for many interests.

Hey Clay. I just now stumbled across your channel! I know, what's taken me so long, aye? Brilliant content, thanks for sharing your skills.

Awesome work Clay!!! Tks for sharing!!!

Nice work!

WOW! This was amazing. I haven't worked with brass for many years. These days, on the rare occasion when I do anything akin to this, I prefer carbon fiber. But I learned so much from your jigging process with the use of magnets, etc. on a steel base. Obviously you've been doing this for a long time. Thanks for passing on you wisdom in this video!

Remarkable craftsmanship

In the early 80s these frames were made for large scale scalectric cars and raced on large tracks in shopping centres. I was given one, the type of chassis was a wompie

Dude, you build some nice stuff! So Crisp & So Clean.

You Sir are an incredible Artist ..

That is a great piece of work. Hope to see the next stage

holy cow is it really that easy i mean short of the talent and good ole know-how every time he soders a joint you can hear the reverb in the audio amazing craftsmanship 👍✌

Very impressive work. Obviously, having a jig is the key, but you make it look so simple to build. Thanks for sharing.

Amazing video

Tix flux for the win! The anti flux also works well

God I wish you were still making videos on RU-vid on how to build these more. Would really like to see your 1/10th scale Sprint car finished and running

Fantastic work mate I am a Aircraft and Armour modeler who does occasional cars and bikes.... Currently working on the weld beads on 1/12th Yamaha R1 You just earned a new subscriber

Dude, when I saw you reach in the shot with your hands I near had a aneurism, your hands and arms look so much like mine it's creepy beyond belief!!! It was like I was watching my hands and arms doing the prep and soldering instead of someone else's! That is WAY more disconcerting than I had ever supposed!!!!! Great work BTW, I'm going to watch the rest of your work on this model now to see the finished product, I am an avid model builder, anything scale modeling I enjoy it thoroughly. I have a long time subscription to Fine Scale Modeler and have a rather large collection of kits both built and not. I mean, what kind of modeler would I be if I didn't have my own collection of kits to choose from when I'm finished with one? Buying kits always seems to happen when I go to the store to get more paint or glue etc. to finish of what I have going, then when it's done I look through the ones I have and choose one that has usually been put off for too long, and start on it, then the cycle repeats. LOL

You have a lot of good techniques here, and you make it look easy. I like your way of laying the brass down with magnets before you solder them, that seems way more effective than my masking tape, and less hassle. The end product looks great, I've done this sort of work before making R/C Chassis and I know how hard it is to make things look this clean. Good job, this video is absolutely gonna blow up.

Found this very fascinating! Thanks for sharing!

dude this is sick! I love the moderate randomness of your projects, like a micro rear axle! or scale wood! But it is so cool, and I might incorporate some of your techniques into my own work with micro crawlers.

Brilliant video! ASMR indeed.

Cool, Brings back memories😊 Nice job

Wanna try this one day but with a dragster frame. This was awesome Clay, thanks for the course.....

A work of art!!

I really enjoyed that. Awesome work as usual!

Un mot, un seul ! Bravo ! Non, ce n'est pas vrai.... d'autres ont suivis, comme formidable, magique ! J'ai aimé la précision (la vidéo grossissait les détails) et le travail fait ! Un seul truc m'a inquiété : Les doigts ! De ces doigts tout le monde n'en à pas de si méticuleux ! Il faut y faire attention ! Modéliste ferroviaire et modeste constructeur j'ai appris de cette vidéo. Merci ! Bonnes continuations, bonne fêtes de fin d'année et à bientôt De cordiales civilités Patrick (France)

Great video! Takes all the guess work out of the How to! Plus you can use this concept for so many other projects. Really enjoyed it, thanks for the ideas it's created for me. Would like to see the finished model. Keep up the good work and concepts. Love to watch this stuff.

thats awesome , something ive always wanted to try

Excellent and inspiring video! Thanks for sharing.

Awesome work Clay awesome

Fantastic job Clay. It looks so awesome. Ron

Excellent Video. It makes me want to try it!

now make it pass the 1/24 tech inspection

Amazing work.

Absolutely STUNNING Mr Kemp !!! Thanks For Sharing Your Skills and Have a Blessed Week Ahead.

It's fascinating to watch you work. I really enjoy your videos, Clay.

I think Ive just found a potential hobby to pursue. This intrigues me a hell of a lot. Thank you 👍

Brilliant Tutorial video Clay. Thanks alot for making it look easy 😁👍

Really nice :)

this is really great, thank you for sharing!

I know I’m a little late to the party here, but are you willing to share your chassis drawings?(if even for a fee) I’ve drawn a few out in autocad, but can’t seem to be happy with the turnout. Regardless, love the videos! Absolutely awestruck each time I pull any of your videos up. Truly incredible work, and always look forward to seeing your builds!

Awesome

Most impressive

I have been impressed with your skills for many years and always wondered how brass frames were constructed. Thanks for the video Clay, hope to see you at one of the Louisville shows again next year.

Excellent video!

Super cool !!

i like your style

That was incredible Clay. I have always wanted to try a brass chassis for one of my builds and now you have given me the tools to try this. it won't be on the level of your excellent build, but you have inspired me to give it a try. Thanks for sharing this.

very cool to see this technique of building. Would love to see you do a similar type video on working with a resin conversion(I know not many out there at this point) or a full resin body onto an existing kit chassis

Masterfully done. I've been working with styrene for many years and at various points I have considered trying brass, however I just don't think I have the patience for it! Styrene is an extremely forgiving medium to work with, and like you say the principles and techniques are very similar, however with styrene you can work very fast. Nice soldering iron btw. :)

Fantastic job

Awesome Content Clay, I’m doing my 1st 1/25 All Brass TF Dragster frame & was thinking of ways to get my Blueprint to my Jig. 📍Exactly what I needed💯 Lee

Yea, That's one way to bend the tubing. Dubro makes an Excellent purpose designed tubing bender that will accomplish this task without crushing the tubing. It looks exactly like the tubing benders professionals use, only smaller.

I would like to learn from You master… it’s so coool

I had an idea to make Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine at a jewelry size or possibly slightly larger. And I had planned on using Bass and nickel and silver. You got me thinking again🤔