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Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 8:59
PM
Subject: hinges and wheels [TANKS]
Yesterday my tank performed some stunts with its
new hinge tracks. It rolled fast over rocks and other obstacles, up hill
45 degrees steep, in an out pit holes, through bushes, squashed and mushed
some of them at 360 turns no problem.
I noticed that the first ground wheels suffered
the most, like expected. The axle bent, only a little, but it did (have
no suspensions and rely on very loose tracks ). The axle (8 mm
thick, stainless steel) can easily be replaced. I have read somewhere
that certain T-34s lacked rubber on the wheels due to shortage of rubber
in 1944, except from the first ground wheels which suffered most
from the shocks of obstacles and did have rubber.
It was about time to experience this first hand.
CHrys