So far I have the complete drive train out of a wheel chair,4 servos, 2 12v batteries, and my platform that I am building to the 36" rule. I have spent $3.00 on parts total.. that was for the servos on ebay. I am going to be using a friction drive system that I am building from old dirt track racing tires cut into 4" strips. and to drive the friction drive system I am (currently) using 2 4" rims from the front of a riding mower. today I am going to be cutting some guide teeth. and for the bottom rollers, I am using 10 legs off of couches. These are working good so far because they have carrage bolts through the middle of them already centered in the wood. I haven't decided on a tank design yet because of how large the wheelchair motors are. And I think I will be using 2 car batterys to power it. So if that is the case, I will have to use a bulky tank body to cover it all. For this massive of a setup, does anyone of a large bulky tank body That I build to cover all of this? What were some of the taller tanks or the more massive ones.
And the main question I have is: if I start building a body and I have to make the hull a inch or 2 taller than scale to clear the motors, or the batterys, is this ok? or if I have to make a raised cover just to cover the gear boxes on the motors, is that ok? is there any clear or outlined rules on this? because I haven't found anything on it other than general building guidlines. I don't want to goto my first tank war and have to watch because my tank is 1"to tall at the turrent or something like that. Thanks Steve Cobb [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
