OK Chris, Here's the machine for you.
http://www.mediummachinery.com/index.html <http://www.mediummachinery.com/index.html> You wont even need to fix your truck to pick it up. It ships by UPS. Steve On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 11:32:36 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > Some of you who know something about me, know i do work with resin > castings and produce sci-fi kits. Recently i have begun to look into > stepping things up, taking me from resin kits to styrene kits (or at least > some of them), but i am also looking at other things such as tank related > parts :) > > I know i can't do everything (producing useable parts that everyone could > use for every tank), but i could start to do some. > > The plastic injectors i am looking at all have a mold size of about 3" > square but might know someone that might be able to do mold blocks up to 6" > (still have to talk more to them about some parts). > > at first i was thinking of using regular styrene , but thought i'd need to > add some sleeves into the links to help prevent wear, but then starting > looking into some harder materials that i might be able to use (still > checking) such as nylon. they would hold up much better than regular > styrene, and i don't think they would need any kind of sleeve cast into > them but think there is a possible draw-back - not being able to be > painted (unless someone out there know's otherwise). > > another limitation is the amount of material required to make a part, the > injectors i am looking at have a limit of 1 oz of material (think that's > liquid, not weight), so some parts might be out of the question to make - > for now. > > if the other person would be willing to make some of the bigger parts for > me, those i think would be some road wheels and sprocket wheels - oh, while > i'm thinking of road wheels, there is a material that is used to make > rubber like gaskets that i was thinking of for making the rubber tires for > the road wheels, but haven't obtained a sample of it yet to see if it > really is closer to rubber, if so, we have rubber tires (again, limited > only by size and volume of material needed). the sprockets i thought could > be done in nylon as well as i think that would hold up fairly well but > still need to work out the hubs to mount them to and the mounting them to > the drive shafts (and hope they don't break) > > the parts would be in 1:6 scale > > as to the tanks i am thinking of looking into for parts....but would have > to do research to see if the track links would be feasible to make and use > > Tiger (but of course, I have one) > > Sherman (i have no real knowledge of them so i don't know if one track > fits all) > > Abram (not 100% sure as i don't know if there are any real variants of the > tank or just the one, again, i have no knowledge of this tank). > > Stug > > as it's still several months away before i can think about getting an > injector, i do know i'll be getting one, so i might as well start looking > into other subjects that i can do using the injector. > > I don't want anyone to think that these would be a cheap things to buy as > i have been pricing nylon and it's a few dollars a pound for it and the > molds could cost me $500 - $1500 on up. > > now parts such as hatches and such would be made out of styrene, this way > they can be easily painted along with the rest of your tank. > > the nylon parts (if i can get everything worked out) i wanted to see about > maybe trying for 4 colors, black, light gray, medium gray and dark gray. i > was sort of leaning towards the gray as i thought if they could be painted > and the paint were to wear off, the gray could sort of be a bare steel > color (or i could look into an orange brown for a rust color if i could get > custom colors somehow). > > oh and the road and idle wheels that i do make, i plan to make them to > accept bearings (i think i can get a good supply of them so i could include > them with each wheel and also as replacement parts). > > i would even consider a generic track design > > if i can get things to all work out, i think some of this could be a big > boost for future tank building. > > Chris > -- 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
