a wiki would be good, it might be good to think about moving to a vbulletin style forum also....
________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Gregory Kampjes [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TANKS] M113 progress 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]<mailto:[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<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 4:59 AM Subject: RE: [TANKS] M113 progress $150AUD was just that single piece, cut and folded, and that included the supply of the material. Happy to organise a group buy if you want to, but shipping could get expensive. My design is dependant on using certain components for the suspension, as you can see there are specific mounting hole locations. I may offer this as a rolling chassis kit if this one works out ok. Thats the real beauty of the laser cutting, if you want another part you just call them and ask - they already have it saved in the machine, all they have to do is place a piece of material on the cutter, press LOAD and press GO, and voila you have an exact replica. Ben ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] on behalf of Jason R Schafer [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 1:33 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TANKS] M113 progress 150$ 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]<mailto:[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 :) 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]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat
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