Re: Hello...Question on the Pak40 (which i understand is now Deceased).. [TANKS]

["Zach Ginter" <zgunbear-at-charter.net>]

Airsoft paintballs aren't very reliable. they usually break in the mech box 
rendering it useless utnil it is dissassembled and cleaned
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "N Click" <superclick1975-at-hotmail.com>
To: <tanks-at-rctankcombat.com>
Cc: <jplily-at-yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 4:25 AM
Subject: Re: Hello...Question on the Pak40 (which i understand is now 
Deceased).. [TANKS]


> John,
>
> I WOULD BE VERY INTERESTED IN THE TEMPLATES (GRIN).  I suppose some 
> additional questions would be whether the club would allow someone to 
> manually aim the PAK such as before or if it had to have Automatic 
> controls in order to get the user 'out of harms way'? (signed Waiver 
> anyone (grin)).
>
> John, in hindsight was the PAK enjoyable in combat?  It seems to me that 
> Artillery could be very intertaining.
>
> Lastly, would the club allow the smaller airsoft caliber paintballs.  The 
> technology and reliability is getting better and as a result one could 
> build a nice semi-auto mechanism with close to 400fps speed and would not 
> need CO2 but instead utilize the 'electrics' gearboxes made famous by 
> Tokoyo Marui.  This would drastically reduce the weight and could 
> facilitate a 'lazy susan' lilke rotating base for the Gun.
>
>
>>From: JOHN PITTELLI <jplily-at-yahoo.com>
>>Reply-To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
>>To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
>>Subject: Re: Hello...Question on the Pak40 (which i understand is now 
>>Deceased).. [TANKS]
>>Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 15:07:04 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>Hi Norlyn,
>>
>>            I built the Pak 40/75. It did not have
>>rotate ,nor elevate, but I knocked out the basics in
>>less than a week. Marty added a rotate and elevate
>>when he transformed it into the 88. What questions do
>>you have? I bought a 1/35 kit for the scaling up. I
>>still have some templates if you would like to have
>>them let me know. Bew glad to answer any questions.
>>
>>John Pittelli
>>
>>--- N Click <superclick1975-at-hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > My name is Norlyn and i live in Virginia.  I want to
>> > get into this hobby but
>> > with a family to support and somewhat limited funds
>> > i have a few questions.
>> > I have always enjoyed the AT Guns (perhaps thats
>> > because where i grew up
>> > there is a PAK at the front of the National Guard
>> > Armory).  I want to build
>> > something similar to the Pak guns or the 88 on the
>> > website.
>> >
>> > Is the person who built it (Pak) on this board? If
>> > so any thoughts on a
>> > similar project? Tips, hints?ideas?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Norlyn
>> >
>> >
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