Very nice ! I've been wondering about 3d printing the molds directly, as opposed to printing a master part and then making a rubber mold. If the mold was printed in PLA and waxed and treated with mold release, do you think cast parts would come out OK ?
On Friday, April 24, 2020 at 7:23:41 PM UTC-4, Caleb Smith wrote: > > Hey everyone! Hope you all are doing well and staying safe. Things have > been a bit quiet here for quite some time. Lately I've been working on > rebuilding my M22 Locust into a working tank again. Two days of hard > battling (her first battle) in Gettysburg brought out a lot of > shortcomings. The major ones were poor power, weak tracks that broke a lot > of teeth off, and 3d printed sprockets and idlers that didn't take the > stress well. So, to fix all that I'm installing 250w M01 motors, casting > plastic tracks, and making new sprockets and idlers out of plywood. > Attached are a few pics of my progress. I hope to post more updates here > frequently to hopefully get some conversations going and maybe motivate > anyone that's building a tank out there. Maybe we'll have a battle this > year. -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rctankcombat/cfc79d95-1870-4121-b03f-78e81db58f46%40googlegroups.com.
