Speaking of adding things to the website, I suggest that we make all the articles and maybe the link lists into a wiki. There isn't too much involved in the setup, and it makes it so that we can have a much better knowledge base.
-Gregory On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos < [email protected]> wrote: > I started this hobby by building 1:35, and 1:16 steel laser cut tanks. > For my first two 1:35 steel models they charged me nothing. The people at > the laser cut thought it was a fun little side project for them. And then > fun became an addiction and things got out of hand. > If you can have something like that built accurately for $ 150, it is worth > teh effort. Steel is for ever. Aluminium and stainless steel is for ever and > ever. > I had suggested , about 10 thousand messages ago, that we create a > collection of our CAD drawings for those who want to download and use them > readily at their local laser cut shop. IN fact, I could ask one of my > students to work a couple of CAD drawings, of the most popular tanks, for a > minimum price, if those who are interested chipped in a little $$$. Upload > the files to the forum for anyone to use. It is called globalization. > > A Tiger should come first, I guess. Again, the file can be laser cut at any > scale, so it is a good investment. > > Chrys > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Ben Holko <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Monday, January 18, 2010 4:59 AM > *Subject:* RE: [TANKS] M113 progress > > $150AUD was just that single piece, cut and folded, and that included the > supply of the material. Happy to organise a group buy if you want to, but > shipping could get expensive. > > My design is dependant on using certain components for the suspension, as > you can see there are specific mounting hole locations. I may offer this as > a rolling chassis kit if this one works out ok. Thats the real beauty of the > laser cutting, if you want another part you just call them and ask - they > already have it saved in the machine, all they have to do is place a piece > of material on the cutter, press LOAD and press GO, and voila you have an > exact replica. > > Ben > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [[email protected]] on > behalf of Jason R Schafer [[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, January 18, 2010 1:33 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [TANKS] M113 progress > > 150$ sounds reasonable to me! Was that for just what was shown in the > pic or did it come with other pieces? Would you be willing to do a group > buy if other people are interested? Very nice work. > > Jason > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Ben Holko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I picked up the hull for my M113 this week. After many hours drawing in >> sketchup I supplied the cad file, and the hull was laser cut from 2mm zinc >> steel, and bent in a single piece on a 10-tonne brake press. I am VERY happy >> with the way it came out. >> >> >> >> Next is to start to make suspension components, which will be torsion >> bars. >> >> >> >> Front and rear hull pieces will be welded on, also from 2mm zinc steel, >> the top will be bolted on and removable. Not yet decided on whether to have >> a drop-down rear ramp, part of me thinks if I was going to do that I would >> have to make it RC controlled otherwise it just wouldn’t be cool J >> >> >> >> The 4 vertical holes are for the motor mounts, which I will fabricate from >> steel. >> >> >> >> 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 >> > > ------------------------------ > > -- > 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 > > > -- > 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 >
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