RE: tracks from tires

[paul needham <paul.2.needham-at-btconnect.com>]

Steve

If you think that was ' ass-backwards' thinking then you don't want to know 
what I did !

I guessed a spacing for the treads [ turned out the teeth/bells were scale 
distance/number ! ] but didn't worry at all as I had no idea how long my 
tracks were going to be , as they were near scale I counted how many would 
be needed to cover the scarf joint and then stopped building tracks when 
near that limit.
I then put the tracks on the tank with the tensioning wheels in the correct 
place [ matched prototype ] I then marked the other end of the scarf joint 
and cut it , then I just divided up the rest of the gap and got in how ever 
many treads would fit!

Paul [ Heath Robinsons grandson ] Needham

  At 15:54 23/09/2004, you wrote:
>Joe wrote:
>
> > Correct.  However you had to make your track
> > length some integer multiple of tread spacing.
>
>I think my thought processing must be ass-backwards from the 
>mainstream!  Instead of making my belt length a multiple of some 
>predetermined track spacing, I adjusted the track spacing for the belt 
>length!  ;-)
>
>How I did this was to draw a 1:1 scale spacing template in my favorite 
>vector drawing program (CorelDraw).  I then "stretched" it to the required 
>belt length and printed it full size on a dot matrix printer.  You can use 
>a laser/inkjet and tape the paper together.  Here's a pic of the template 
>test fitted on the T34 while under construction,
>
>http://www.rctankcombat.com/tanks/T005/33TrackTemplate1-large.jpg
>
>
>
>    Steve Tyng