Posted by: Dave _Tackleberry_ on July 13, 2003 at 01:52:08

This way the back tracks could just go at one constant speed and the front rubber tire wheels could do the steering, and on top of that youd cut the length of your tracks in half (wich means les BS and less cost. Do you know anyone with a machine shop? That would be the only way to do it right, remmeber theres still gona be alot of stress, those swooping 360* turns that real tanks make always run a huge risk of snapping treads. Ive spoke often about that with a ret. M-88 recovery specialist who used to pray along side his crew members while tanks did that for inspecing generals, that the treads didnt break right there on the field while they snapped the tanks back and forth in those impressive moves. Also if you go over say a log or something that puts lots of strain on one point in the treads, you might end up with lots of slack on one end of the treads, while the back is tight from the work its doing (upto the drive sprocket) this is when you are most likely to have the track itself hop off the bogies. Maybee you could make H shaped treads, the top and bottom of the H could have holes drilled in them and thick bolts passing through both verticals of each side of the H with double lock nuts on the outside of it. Youd probably want to experiment with stong steels or maybee auminum if your tanks light enough. Youl want to cary lots of spares though, and youl end up designing a drive sprocket for each side from scratch, and a guide for the front, and lots of rollers, or bogies wich if possible, should have some sort of tension on them so they force themselves down twards the earth on the bottom part of the track, and up twards the sky on the top half of the track. This way you dont have too much slack in the treads. The transmission part is lost on me. Have you considered a gas/electic combiation? Two strong electric motors, one on each side with adjustable speeds (or similar if halftrackig) and a reglar gas engine supplying electric to them, this way the engine like a train locomotive, is either idling or making power, the electrc motor varying the amount of work desired by the driver. Id love to see tanks with real tank treds, I hope it works out for you. I can actualy ask the about the basics of it all, maybee something simple could be worked out. It doesnt hurt to dream right? Good luck

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