Re: Some Observations... [TANKS]

["Bart Salmons" <shayguru-at-charter.net>]

How thick material was being used on the teeth and what size 
screw?......personally I had planned on using soild wood teeth (cause I got 
a trucklaod of rough cut poplar for free) and pre drillingthe holes to kee 
it from spliting.  Also thats whay I was asking about the TREX material, 
saws like wood, acts like plastic.......what are you using to attach the 
plastic teeth to the  treadblock?

Bart Salmons
Slammer 6

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc en Wendy" <marcmethorst-at-zonnet.nl>
To: <tanks-at-rctankcombat.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: Some Observations... [TANKS]


> 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