If you work on an RC car at all you will soon find it necessary to put it up on some sort of stand. Some people put the tire under the car and that works for some things but when you really need to get to the belly of your car the tire just will not provide enough space. There are RC car stands on the market that fit all shapes and sizes and range in price but most hover around $20-$40 dollars. I’m going to show you how to make a rotatable, cheap, effective, and easy to build stand for any size or shape of car. Here is what you will need.

Parts:
4 – self taping screws about 1/2 inch long.
2 – 1 ^1/2 x 1/2 inch PVC fitting (shown top left)
2 – 1 ^1/2 inch PVC fitting (shown top)
1 – 1/2 inch PVC pipe 2 inches long (shown top right)
2 – 2 inch galvanized floor flange (shown bottom)
1 – 1/2 to 3/4 inch piece of wood

Optional:
None adhesive cabinet liner to top off the stand (recommended for nonslip)
Pipe cutters. Makes cutting PVC pipe a breeze. (shown top far right)

Cut out a piece of wood sized to fit your model. Mine was 9 x 16 but your RC model could be much smaller. Screw the galvanized floor flange in the middle of your piece of wood. NOTE: if your wood is much smaller then you could try getting a 1 inch flange instead of a 2 inch one. Then screw in the 1 ^1/2 x 1/2 inch PVC fitting into the floor flange. Tap in the 1 ^1/2 inch PVC fitting and then slide in the 2 inch PVC pipe.

If you have the cabinet liner you can glue it to the wood using Elmer glue or spay adhesive. That’s pretty much it you now have a strudy car stand that cost you less than $15 dollars in parts. If you wanted you could paint it or fix it up a little more.

This is my 1/6 scale FG baja sitting on the stand. This car weighs in about 30 lbs.