Re: Tiger 1 road wheels [TANKS]

[David Cansler <dcans-at-verizon.net>]

George

What was the construction method for those tracks?
I see that you've used chain on both sides, but how is put together?
They lood unusual.

David "I have 10 false starts" Cansler
Florida

George Mastoras wrote:

> 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.