Re: Forming a East Midlands RC Tank Club ?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:03 pm
Hi Al,
Thanks for all your reply's and advice, I know we will proberly being wanting a lot more in the future,
I very intrested in pete's reply about a HL IR system that you can fit to a BB tank and battle with, but still retain the BB side as well. If someone could let me have some details about that I know for a start I'm intrested ( I have 6 BB tanks ) as well as a couple of IR.
The Hall floor is a concern but I'm looking into purchasing and laying a cheap carpet underlay or Canvas Tarpaulin down on the battle area to protect it, and at the end of day you just roll in up. I have also put the word down at our local tip so that any small plastic chrimbo trees that are scrapped he will let me know (so we can break them up into small tree's for a forest or wood.) Buildings and bridges will have to come in the future.
Regarding the BB side of things I agree that firing "live Ammo" inside has a whole lot of problems and personelly agree it should not take place unless under strict rules and circumstances (But again that would be up to the clubs Committee to lay down). My back ground as an engineer and also an Deputy Firing Range manager that shot and proofed anything from pistols to 105mm field guns I'm well aware of the Health and safety rules that apply to projectile firing Especially anything over 50m/s (Its a Damm Nightmare and should be avoided or risk assessed to the 9th degree) .
At the moment it appears that we have 9 people intrested in forming a club in this area hopely a few more will express intrest and step forward.
Anyway once again thank you for all your input and hopefully we can press forward
regards Denzil
Thanks for all your reply's and advice, I know we will proberly being wanting a lot more in the future,
I very intrested in pete's reply about a HL IR system that you can fit to a BB tank and battle with, but still retain the BB side as well. If someone could let me have some details about that I know for a start I'm intrested ( I have 6 BB tanks ) as well as a couple of IR.
The Hall floor is a concern but I'm looking into purchasing and laying a cheap carpet underlay or Canvas Tarpaulin down on the battle area to protect it, and at the end of day you just roll in up. I have also put the word down at our local tip so that any small plastic chrimbo trees that are scrapped he will let me know (so we can break them up into small tree's for a forest or wood.) Buildings and bridges will have to come in the future.
Regarding the BB side of things I agree that firing "live Ammo" inside has a whole lot of problems and personelly agree it should not take place unless under strict rules and circumstances (But again that would be up to the clubs Committee to lay down). My back ground as an engineer and also an Deputy Firing Range manager that shot and proofed anything from pistols to 105mm field guns I'm well aware of the Health and safety rules that apply to projectile firing Especially anything over 50m/s (Its a Damm Nightmare and should be avoided or risk assessed to the 9th degree) .
At the moment it appears that we have 9 people intrested in forming a club in this area hopely a few more will express intrest and step forward.
Anyway once again thank you for all your input and hopefully we can press forward
regards Denzil