okay so lets talk tank tracks, i'm going to make a track design with a 3d program, 3d print it and use the result as a model for a plaster cast with which i'm going to cast aluminum tracks for my rc tank
here's the (very basic) 3d modelling program
https://www.tinkercad.com/
and here are my design ideas so far
https://www.tinkercad.com/users/6UD8qJvY3l6-tank-tracks
so, any suggestions for how the tracks should be like?
>>29489394
What's the scale of your tank? Also what model?
It's gonna be a bitch to drill and possibly ream every single link for the peg anyway.
>>29489394
Looks nice and intricate, how much power will your tank have and what's its weight?
>>29491402
>>29491423
i'm using the electronics of my old buggy so about 1-2kg i will design the chassis myself.
i will place the pins of the tracks inside of the mold so that they form the holes and i wont have to drill them.
>>29491454
also, i'm not sure if i can cast so intricate shapes so something like this might be better
>>29491510
I was going to suggest 3D printing wax and doing investment casting but then I realized you'd have to do that for a couple hundred links so..
Even though tiger tracks are sexy as fuck simple shapes and reusable molds are definately the way to go.
>>29491927
would you happen to know where i can order about 50 mm long tension springs in europe?
>>29489394
>3d print
Sounds like an expensive way to make something that's not very hard to make
>>29492202
how is it expensive? also, i tried to cut tracks from foamboard but it is very hard to do this precisely
>>29492245
because the plastic is hundreds of dollars per spool
Granted if you're making only 1 and reusing it, it's not bad depending on the size, but that shit's expensive
I'm guessing you're using your colleges 3d printer?
>>29489394
You desinging similar to something in this vid?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1d76evqjwU
>>29492339
>>29492265
single track would be about 10mmx50mmx5mm so this would be just a rc tank.
>>29492418
>measuring in mm
American imageboard champ
Give me that in real measurements
>>29492418
see>>29492265
>I'm guessing you're using your colleges 3d printer?
If this is true, then price is irrelevant
>>29492626
like 1 thumb wide and quarter thumbs long and eight of a thumb thick.
>>29492638
i'm actually on the search for a 3d printer since we don't have one in every school here in yuropoorland, local university probably has one, idk if they let me use it, i'm a student though.
