Neil, Those tracks are amazing to me! They are plastic like the Panther. But we broke about 6 tracks with the Panther, in 3 days of testing, always at the same weak area. I think the Tiger tracks are more "flat", wider, and the pin is smaller (30/1000th of an inch). But those pins are "plastic" compared to the metal pins on the Panther! I also heard that the Chinese use recycled plastic to lower their costs, while US injection cie which we used for the Tiger Tracks use almost all new plastic.
We have not given up on the Panther/Jagdpanther at these high speed/torque. I will check with our Injection Molded mfg and see if the pins can be decreased since they are separate from the mold. I'm also interested in slightly changing the design of the weak point if possible.We might use the same "plastic pin" as the Tiger, rather than the expensive metal pin! For the Tiger we did not lose ONE track pad [the reason the Tank stopped abruptly as it went over that rock, and slammed into the ground, is that it closed the unattached ON/OFF switch inside the tank]. As I said, the only issue we have is the double guide tooth going over the left idler [in the Tiger, the idler is between the two row of guide teeth - in our situation, the inside guide teeth went IN BETWEEN the two idler wheels, and the outside one moved further to the outside], which means we need to move that idler slightly to the outside like we did on the right side. We just cut the hardened steel a "little too tight". Steve thinks that the tracks slightly skipping on the sprocket on the high torque events might not be an issue, and act as a safety to avoid breaking tracks... This can be addressed by tightening or loosening the tracks. Now we are waiting for the Elevate system/trigger system from "Tyng Tech" and we might have a "combat tank"! We also found an outfit with great Electronic Background in the "Robot Industry" to take our tank and fit it with the latest electronic controller (not even released to the public yet...). Those tanks will be able to use Game Controllers. Time for the HOUR TEST... -- -- 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 received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R/C Tank Combat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
