I am always impressed w/ George's work, there's something about a dented metal tank that makes it twice as good. What did you use on the inner hull where the torsion rods go through, did you make those or are they from another part of something?
Tom On Feb 23, 2009, at 12:45 AM, George Mastoras 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 > > > > > <3stage_1.jpg><3stage_2.jpg><3stage_3.jpg><3stage_4.jpg><3stage_5.jpg> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
