George, What scale is that built to? Looks good regardless.
Derek On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:45 PM, George Mastoras <[email protected]> wrote: > Some progress at last. > Still a bit to do, some welding, drilling, tapping about a days worth before > can attach a battery to test. > Should say this was a PITA and would not do it again, while putting this > thing together was always thinking what if this chain broke etc so had to > build in servicing and repair considerations. > > The gear ratio is 12:1 and the motors are about 320 watts at 12 volts but > will run it at 24volts also. > When moving this vehicle uses 56 ball bearings and 12 bushes for the arms so > it should be efficient. > > Will be able to adjust tension on all the chains and be able to disassemble > the transmission hopefully fairly easy. > > When welding is finished will pull apart and paint, set the bearings and > take some photos when its in pieces. > > Even though its been a bit of a pain am looking forward to seeing this move, > hopefully should be driving within 2 weeks or earlier, apart from > transmission only have 4 road wheels left to do. > > George Mastoras > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
