| From: | "Gene Burbeck" <gburb-at-advantagecs.com> |
| Subject: | RE: Mathew's tracks [TANKS] |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:54:10 -0400 |
| Reply-To: | tanks-at-rctankcombat.com |
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quoting Mathew: "as the outer diameter of the
wheel and the wooden wheels as a guard to stop the track coming off.
then the pins are not as close to the edge of the wood"
When I tried this system, the long,
unsupported pins bent because of leverage and that was only with a rubber,
much lighter track. Mathew's system will work fine with
a thicker wheel in the middle that allows little leverage on the
pins. It is overall a good system if you can find rubber belts that
are 1.5 -1.6 m. long or longer. One meter long cloth reinforced belts like
these cost 40 euro each and , together with 3 mm bolts, run my Tankette
for about 6 months.
Chrys
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