Probably some experienced guys would say that too much grip mean difficulties 
to turn neutral on grass and drawn to much amp. to your motors.

In second I would say that some guides thooths would probably work better even 
if it's seemmed to work. Your super traction will probably trow off your track 
at the first turn...

I'm not experienced a lot but i got a 80% tank hull that will maybe running 
this weeckend, but a lot of guys reduce their grip with flat tracks even let 
some screws heads out to run better on all 

conditions..

Out of that good work and make lots of testing cause tracks are cool but hard 
to master!!!


Jean-Maxime Cyr St-Pierre

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 12:00:56 -0800
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [TANKS] New Track Idea

Hello all,
My name is Josh and I am a robotics engineer. I do a lot of medical robotics 
during the day and mess around with RC stuff for fun. I was thinking about 
building a RC lawn mower because I figured it would be more fun to build the 
robot then mow my lawn. Plus sitting in the shade with a beer while I drive a 
RC lawn mower around the yard sounds great. Anyway, stumbled onto this group 
when looking at the track options. This page was really helpful 
http://www.rctankcombat.com/articles/track-systems/ and I got an idea that I 
wanted to see what people thought of it.
I really liked the chain and bolt track idea. Using standard roller chain has a 
lot of advantages. Lots of sizes, strong, standard drive parts. But I did not 
like how all the load was on the chain and not the middle tread. Seems like you 
might not get much grip in some situations. So I started toying around with the 
idea of a custom tread, that you mounted to the roller chain. You could have 
various sizes, for different chain. Maybe even have different tread profiles to 
pick from. I 3d printed some parts to make prototypes and I ordered the 
materials to cast about 50-100 parts. I figured I would see what you guys 
thought. Maybe pick your brains. The final part would probably be injection 
molded. I do this kind of stuff at work so I have some contacts.
Any comments welcome. The red ones match #35 chain and are 3" wide, the black 
match #40 chain and are 4" wide, and the white match #50 chain and are 5" wide. 
Maybe I am just missing something obvious since I have never build a tracked 
vehicle.





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