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My tensioning setup, (works well).
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Update Dec 2008:-
Thin mild steel L brackets suffer under the constant strain, and tear during the October revolution in Essex UK , why do so many components wait until a battle is underway to break ? |
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A much chunkier and galvanised replacement. |
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My first generation axle and tensioning system.
I made this axle out of 8mm,
8mm likes to bend, as it did after about 30 feet of driving .so I made a new one out of 12mm .
12mm is the minimum I recon.
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Update:- Dec 2008
The tension axle of T051 consists of 2 No 12mm bolts held together by a 14mm steel tube. Over time (and frequent impacts) the 14mm tube has bent a little causing the tension wheels to run out of line. This I think was the main reason why T051 has been shedding tracks. |
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A whole new set-up was in order. A half inch axle from an old golf trolley two new wheels. |
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Suspension arm setup,
10mm bolts held by a nut cut in falf ,
tightened with expanding glue on a 6x20x90mm bar,
this has worked very well and shows an alternative to welding
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A typical "make it up as you go along" design was used for the motor gearbox (drills) housing.
It looks a bit rough and it is, but it works
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Until a UK target tank comes on the horizon I`ll be using the batteries that come with the drills ( all 1.3ah of them )Thats long enough to show any stray neighbor
,family member or innocent passer by what I`ve been doing all winter
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This entire build has seen constant reshape ,refit ,remake redo, re-a-line, re pull your hair out and start again, all of which make dust.things got a little easyer when i bought a cheep dust extraction system
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