Results

Race results below for the last week

24th April 2008 - Saloon Championship Round 2

All the best,
Phil 'The Tape Cleaner' Moss

Wot a Saturday afternoon.......

Jared set me a challenge this weekend, as he had decided he wanted to make a remote control tank as part of a World War Two project for school. Not one to be beaten I set to dismantling the collection of broken radio control helicopters I collected at the Brighton Centre. I soon found that the motor and pinion meshed perfectly with a 46t 80 pitch gear, so with my trusty soldering iron, some 16g piano wire, Jared's tank was soon underway. Once constructed all we needed to do was create a 'tank' from an old box and the job was nearly complete ! ( you know bodywork has never been my strength ! )

You can see we even used pin tube to mount the shell to the chassis !

Under the covers you can see the size of the motor and the backend. For the technically minded this is a 7 to 46 gear ratio! Initially built with a set of 1/24th JKB rears (on large polymers of course !), however, these seemed to provide to much resistance and cut the motor out, a little experimentation found it ran best with a gear on each side.

As you can see in the attached video, it's got a good turn of speed ! Wonder if I could get a saloon body on it - great fun !!!

See the tank in action

Results

Race results below for the last two weeks

10th April 2008 - 1/24th Championship Round 2

17th April 2008 - Reg Church Memorial Round 2

Don't forget all results can be accessed through the calendar on the main website as well - useful for checking history !!

All the best,
Phil

Results

Race results below for the last three weeks

20th March 2008 - Team Race

27th March 2008 - Super Production Championship Round 1

3rd April 2008 - Sports Championship Round 2

All the best,
Phil

My big idea......

One Sunday afternoon do you think we could lay out four 00 guage tracks and run a four man team race ?