Well, I didn't get any vids of the tank in the gravel. I was concentrating the real ones this weekend. I did do some very minor damage to the tank with all the
running around. I backed into a chainlink fence and bent one of the track guards. I also ran it into a 10-ton truck tire demonstrating the range of the thing from around 150ft. A guy walked into my line of sight for a second, and BANG! No real damage, just bent the front mud guard down a little. Nothing a vise can't solve. I also lost a track pad, but I expected for some of the rivits to let go eventually. That's another 2 minute fix. Just have to pop rivit a new one on. Lastly, I broke one of my suspension spring mounts. I kinda launched the tank over a real tank track. It was moving at full speed so the front end came down over the rut from a height of about 12" and slammed into the dirt pretty hard. That's an easy fix too. It was still driveable so if it were to happen in a battle it wouldn't have been the end of the world. Overall, I was very pleased with the way it handled. I used and abused it. Even let a few really small kids drive it. The whole thing is just covered in dirt from the tanks churning up the demonstration area. Derek T065 On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Chris Malton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey, quit the whining Neil! I've spent rather too long organising this > upcoming battle for you guys. > > Chris Malton > > On 14/06/2009 09:14, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Derek wrote:- > > `Now all I need is someone to battle with. Hint, hint…` > > > > Tell me about it buddy . > > well done on the performance of To66 . it’s a real downer when things > don’t work when your attempting a domo. > > > > > > > > ---- Derek Engelhaupt<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Had it out running today in the tank exercise area today with all the > >> crowds. Lots of questions, all positive comments. Promoted the site as > >> much as I could to encourage new tankers. The new attachment chain > tracks > >> were flawless. Last year with my old tracks, the pea to marble sized > gravel > >> played hell with them. They fell off after 5 minutes of running in the > >> gravel. Today, rock solid performance (pun intended). Not a single > track > >> issue in the gravel after at least 30 minutes of runtime. The larger > 2060 > >> pitch on the chain left room for the sprocket teeth when rocks got in > >> there. I actually dug a 2" crater in the dirt doing a continuous > neutral > >> turn spitting gravel everywhere. It sucked all kinds of rocks into the > >> tracks and just spit them back out. Love it. Even the heat did nothing > to > >> its performance. Fun was had by all today. Now all I need is someone > to > >> battle with..hint, hint... > >> > >> Derek > >> T065 > >> > >>> > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
