Re: Transmission Help [TANKS]

["Marc en Wendy" <marcmethorst-at-zonnet.nl>]

How about applying a bit of Loctite? I'm thinking of using this when 
assembling the drive line.

Regards,

Marc

PS: I've posted two short movies on my site, one of the French Leclerc and 
one of the Swedish S-Tank. Click on 'de ritselkist' on the main page and 
follow the links. The page is in Dutch but you'll recognize the hyperlinks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Tyng" <SteveT44-at-comcast.net>
To: <tanks-at-rctankcombat.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 12:56 PM
Subject: RE: Transmission Help [TANKS]


> Chris wrote:
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>> What I did in my tiger (t030) was mounted the sprocket tightened
>> the set screw to mark the shaft, and then drilled a hole slightly
>> bigger than the screw a little bit into the shaft. Then
>> re-tightened it all up. that way gives the screw a very good
>> "seat" to settle into.
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> I'm also using the "hole" method instead of flats in my current project.
> One word of advice concerning set screws.  Make sure you can get at them
> after your tanks assembled.  They WILL loosen eventually and having to rip 
> a
> transmission out to tighten a set screw is a pain in the arse!
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>    Steve Tyng
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