| From: | "Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos" <xchrysk-at-otenet.gr> |
| Subject: | quick BT-7 [TANKS] |
| Date: | Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:37:48 +0300 |
| Reply-To: | tanks-at-rctankcombat.com |
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Thanks for letting me know Paul. As I said,
this is only daydreams for a quick and crude BT-7. THe rear wheels will be
the drive wheels and will engage the guide horns T-34 style. It is possible to
drive directly if you want to avoid trouble of transmission, gears and pulleys.
There is space in a 1:6 model for Anvilus' motors, only there'll be only 388 RPM
for a 4 inch diam. wheel. Not too fast. They fit kind of obliquely and
supposedly mounted on a sloping base (yellow) that has to be rigid somehow. with
red, Anvilus' motors. That's why 1:8 scale is an option. You mount
DeWalts directly and you get all 500 RPM directly from the drills'
shafts.
No, I am not planning to drive it without the tracks.
Pretty photo of teh front.
Chrys
Those disk shaped things
on the back are housings for the final drive gears. I was confused about
how these shafts were driven until I got a good look at a drawing in"Steel
Steeds Christie" a biography of J. Walter Christie written by his son J.
Edward. This drawing clearly shows the layout of the major components in
the M-1931 Christie tank that was the basis for the BT series. The drawing
shows the transmission and clutches in front of the final drives and what looks
to be a gear arrangement between them.
Later!
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