KV-1 Project.

Tankbear · Post by **Tankbear** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:05 pm

Wow nearly 6 months since last post

Well got carried away with my Tiger but recieved Asiatam hull, drive sprockets, idle & roadwheels for the KV1 this morning so will back on the KV1 again soon.

Lots of pictures to come.

Ian.

Reaper332 · Post by **Reaper332** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:48 pm

Thanks Tankbear

Ken

The Tank Man · Post by **The Tank Man** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:24 am

Brilliant thread Ian you have been busy mate your going to have to show me how to make your smoker at the meet!!!

Tankbear · Post by **Tankbear** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:27 pm

As promised here's some pictures of the Asiatam hull and metal wheels.

Ian

Tankbear · Post by **Tankbear** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:34 pm

Assembly time

Track return wheels fitted.

Road wheels fitted.

Idle and drive wheels.

Idle wheels fittec, showing the working tensioner.

Plastic mounting tray added. For those paying attention you notice I've changed the battery strap to a velcro one from a Taigen hull.

caddyshack · Post by **caddyshack** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:39 pm

You have been a busy little bear...

Keep up the good work Tb, it will soon be finished.

Tankbear · Post by **Tankbear** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:42 pm

Next job is strip parts from the HL.

Now the hull has the switch located at the rear.

Wiring to switch

Now your supplied with a bag of screws of various sizes. So best figure out which goes where.

And now parts fitted minus smoke unit and switch (that's a job for another day)

Tankbear · Post by **Tankbear** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:52 pm

Next job the gearboxes, drive sprocket, and tracks.

Now I had already Asiatam 3:1 gearboxes previously fitted so I thought this would be straight forward.

Wrong, turns out that even though I had metal drive wheels before the new supplied ones require a short shaft where as the HL ones needed long shaft.

HL sprocket on left, long shaft on both gearbox and in middle new drive wheel with short shaft.

On the plus side the mounting holes on the plate in the hull actually match the gearboxes (I found on the Tiger they didn't all align up)

Well that is as far as I got today, so fingers crossed I should get this sorted this week.

Ian.

TankLover · Post by **TankLover** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:59 pm

your build is going along very nicely Tankbear. I wish I have the extra funds and your skills for this upgrade. I can't wait to see it finished.

Post by **maxmekker** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:11 pm

Nice work, and I can se you have 1: a new camera, ore 2: found the macro button for close up's . Much sharper shot's now, than in the start.

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