Re: Some Observations... [TANKS]

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

Bart wrote:

> While perusing the Order of Battle I notice a flaw in the design.....seem 
> some of the tetthwere bing cut ACROSS the grain of the wood instead of 
> WITH the grain, and in the photos of the ate up teeth I noticed this to be 
> true as well. While I suspect that they still could be damaged, attention 
> to that little detail might improve the situation....just my 2 bits......

The thing is that the teeth have to be attached to the track. So with 
(ply)wood material that means you have to choose between placing the grain 
perpendicular to the track, which probably means that it will split the 
moment you screw it onto the track. With the grain parrallel to the track 
(as I showed in the mentioned photos) there was a chance they would shear 
off caused by the force (and they did :-) but a succesfull attachment was 
very likely.

It's been a choice, and I took the best of the worst (or some saying, you'll 
understand). With homogenous material like plastic you don't have these (or 
experience less) problems.

Marc
Holland