Re: Tiger 1 road wheels [TANKS]

[George Mastoras <idiom-at-optusnet.com.au>]

Title: Re: Tiger 1 road wheels [TANKS]

What the alternating directions of the road wheel arms did was allow the torsion bars to run through the entire width of the hull internally. The interleaved road wheels meant that the arms where closer together than say a T34  so by flipping the arms on one side and lining up the road wheels the internal suspension set up would fit rather neatly with no overlapping of springs.

If you are not using torsion bars for springs then you donąt need to do it.

Heres an early pic of when I was playing around with  this type of suspension se tup. 

http://www.robowars.org/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=1035&sid=1b6b5483054ea6388567fa60cc5a44cf

Itąs a bit cheesy but it shows the mechanics of the Tigers suspension system.

The layout is based on a king tiger ­ having one more arm and wheel per side for a total of 18 arms. As you can see from how the springs run parallel together that it couldnąt be done if the arms where symmetrical.

The other difference with this system is that you basically use the whole floor for suspension with little height lost but you keep your complete width.






on 25/6/06 10:50 AM, burn995-at-aol.com at burn995-at-aol.com wrote:

> Tom down here in in Tenn.(transplanted from PA four years ago).Bought the tamiya tiger 1 1/32 scale model for detail refrence on my 1/6 tiger. I noticed that the road wheel arms are in oppisite directions.left side face aft and the right face fwd. Can anyone tell me what this does for the tank and if it really matters on the scale models.Hope to have some photos worth putting on the sight soon.thanks