Beautiful work, Modena! The only question would be, what happens if one of the little white switches gets hit with a paintball? Haha (i'm sure you won't ever have your back toward the enemy)
—Mike M Message sent by way of mobile device On Sep 6, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Modena <[email protected]> wrote: > > I finally got around to building the front mud guards and track > guards, and T067 got to see some dry and crusty lumpy dirt. > > In this first vid it gets stuck, I needed to lend some assistance to > get it out. I didn't film it, but basically I just put a bit of > pressure with my foot on the front and backed it out of the ditch > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znx016dUbR0 > > > In this one at about the half way point the right track derails - > however in true Tiger Tank form I managed to drive it 150 meters back > to the garage, even though all 4 sprockets on the right track were off > the chain, the front drive sprockets were semi-engaging on the pads > themselves. I did drive it home fairly slowly and carefully, still not > bad to be able to drive like that with a completely unseated track. > > To combat the derailing problem some more I will be swapping out the > coil springs on the front-most and rear-most bogie wheels for a > stiffer spring. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu3dwCVBh0s > > > And a full-noise dyno run! > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmIRMMhKNFU > > > Now it's on to building a turret! > > Ben > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
