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Simply beautiful. You have got the movement spot on. Very smooth indeed.

Normally work for me after a successful trial run ended and the tub goes to her new owners, but every now and then I build a tank on request largely completed, as this time also.

That is why it went today with poly continue to work on the tub.

Since the hull sides are made of 1.5 mm aluminum so I have to double up on the ends even with 4mm Ploy. At the same time as I create the attachment for upper hull and transom. To ensure it fits judge the upper hull with transom clean the chassis and glue the corners with adhesive performs well. The Tesa prevents sticking of parts. Then I can stick with STABILITH express the prepared Polys fittings with the supernatants.
Then you should wait at the minimum one hours before the upper hull decreases gently but forcefully. So you get an exact match connection for the hull front.
Next I make first with the transom. This first gets two hooks with which I can plug it into the rear strut. This I must then adapt so until the upper hull can plug clean.
Then I glue the transom again to keep everything on top of the no glue.
Then I glue again each with a poly STABILITH stripes to the sides. This is not so easy because of the corner mirror is warped and so I press it into shape.
By the way I verklebe also the countershaft.
After I was able to remove the transom again I still use this to adjust the glue better and Dustproof. With STABILITH goes perfect and it can work very well with the poly.
After the glue has cured long enough, man should really have time, I have begun to edit the supernatants on the hull front. I'll do that again tomorrow but only if I continue to can out with the mess.

And on it goes with the tub.

Before I adjusted the ends When finished I wanted to install the solenoid bracket the upper hull.

In addition I have just turned M4 screws with flat head 2 pieces and screwed them into a thick piece of poly I-adhesive at the appropriate place under the rear of the tub to the chain covers.
The height of the screw was adjusted so that it remained a small gap to the upper hull attached to the magnet. Between coil and magnets I had to put a piece of scotch, so I did not connect the magnets with them. On the magnets still a drop STABILITH and put the pan. So I get after curing a perfectly matched magnetic holder.
Now it has finally stopped raining and I was finishing the tub ends.
Since I was just I wanted the same even begin painting.

First disassemble everything again after the bottle and spray degreasing metal base.
And after appropriate drying time, I could mix the yellow Basecolor match the upper hull and painting everything.

Once that was dried, reassemble everything, adjust the upper hull and a little dirty with brown and black. Since the upper hull largely as it is to remain so that the paint is finished except for a little chipping and Washington, then I'm at the very end.
Now it can go on and on to the final sprint to the inner technology.

Superb work Edwin...Please keep the updates coming.. I am really looking forward to seeing the completed tank 'roaming' around your garden

This time was the first battery in the series to be able to start with the installing.
As always, I used with my 8-cell vehicles that I just break apart in the middle.
The open-loop poles, and I solder two cables with a 80W soldering iron to the poles. The cable I have made ??as long as the tank is wide.
I cover the open pole with the remains of a blister from which I can adjust with some heat and attach it with a piece of heat shrink tubing.
So I can now build the electronics to the battery.
As well as the electronics, the speaker box is fitted is formed in the tub and with the on-off switch.
So I'm going to make the Köti slowly finished this week.

Step by step you continue.

The cabinet has yet to get a little insulating material of mine for a better sound.
And so the engine then looks through the door. Here too good of a switch is then accessible.
Next, I build a micro controller of the Sol-Expert. This fits perfectly with the orginal tower drives of HL and is therefore not overwhelmed. Moreover, I need no separate power connection as well as the controller gets its power from the receiver and also the speed of Urms fits easily.
The controller I have to solder the cable, which is not easy because of the small size.
Next I do with the tower. The first is disassembled and the recoil away.

To fix the Sevos well and tarrieren the long tube at least to some extent I screw a aluminum bracket to the cradle.
Because then I glue the servos for elevation and recoil. For the flash shot I bring to a micro switch that is triggered by the retreat of the pipe. Here I examine precisely the functions with a servo tester.
Thus, the tower can be screwed again.
For the movable MG I have come up to me a very simple solution, since no precision is required for the movement. The MG is moved just over a curved 0.8 mm steel wire back and forth. By the way, I also soldered the resistors is equal to the LEDs from the MG and the headlights. Unfortunately, however, seems to have broken the driving lamp. Something just is always ....
And right now I'm in the wiring that's already relatively expensive. I will well fit even a charging cable, so you do not always have to remove for charging the tub.

Since summer is just and therefore in my local less going with me, I'm just going to program the transmitter and the sound module into the idle times.
He can drive already.

After dinner I ever could program in my local key features, but I still had to make some adjustments at home and the sound.
Now that Bassis is here I have tinkered on Stefan's request, a transmission cover. The spring is made ??of hard aluminum and is only inserted. So you can for servicing all again very simple Push Open.
After everything works so far, of course, was still in a great functional testing and test drive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJCUlY1pDY

What I now have to make a few minor adjustments are the sound and the suspension on the rear still needs to be raised a little, but then Stefan Köti is ready.