T 35 tracks [TANKS]

["Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos" <xchrysk-at-otenet.gr>]

Aahz, I don't want  to be bad news, however if the T35 tracks are twice that width and you stick to scale, they should weigh 4 times Neil's tracks.  Would you take an amateur's advice who overengineers everything to be on the safe side, and try drive sprockets on both the rear and front wheels (and 4 motors)? Either One is feeding the heavy track to the other end. The other is for traction or the other way around. That means larger batteries, or less fun time but it should work. 

I can see a T35 (1938) in:

http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/1-Vehicles/Allies/2-USSR/04-HeavyTanks/T-35/T-35(1938).htm

and it has quite wide tracks.

 

The drive sprockets that feed the tracks on one end can be cordless drills with the right angle drives mounted together on steel plates. See in my attached jpeg. Looks like a Meccano system. The right angle drives from grinders have holes for mounting them on 3 iron plates. The entire bracket with right angle drives and drills can slide back and forth with a tensioner (screws).

What's the weight of Guy Gregoire's T050 iron tracks ?

 

CHrys

 

> However my new tracks will be about 4kg  or more each.
> I keep telling myself that regardless of speed
> nearly half of them are just lay on the floor
>  

    Now you've got me wondering, I'm fairly certain my tracks are going
to weigh more than twice that.

Aahz.

right angles_plates .jpg