21st century toys m-5 Stuart

[Barcus83]

I recently purchased this tank at a garage sale and was wondering if I could get some info on it. It looks as if it has never been played with.

[tankme]

Had one years ago. That looks to be one of the later releases. Probably has the ABC switch to be able to run with two other tanks at a time. Lots of upgrade parts from East Coast Armory, AmourPax, and others. Runs on a 12V Sealed Lead Acid battery, but no reason you couldn't use a Li-Ion or Lipo with it. I would use a Low Battery Alarm if using a Li-Ion or Lipo though.

Spyker Workshop https://spykerworkshop.com sells ABS tracks that are representative of the actual tracks and other upgrades. Not cheap, but of good quality.

Sprockets can break if run too hard, but a lot of folks put a hose clamp around the sprocket hub to keep them from splitting. These tanks are getting to be pretty old by now so the plastics are probably getting a little brittle, but in most cases the plastic is thick so it shouldn't be that much of an issue.

[sassgrunt]

Page 2 of the Large Scale Military section has two M5 builds that you ought to look at. Both have lots of good information there.

[tankme]

21st Century Toys filed for bankruptcy circa 2010 and sold off all their assets around 2013. Most of the production of the 1/6th scale stuff stopped around 2010. Spare parts for these tanks are getting a lot more expensive at this point. Ebay prices for the tanks are anywhere from like $150 bucks for really bad examples to over $600 for really nice ones, but I think that's too much personally. Most of the time you have to add a big chuck for shipping on top of those prices.