HL Panther rework

Markocaster · Post by **Markocaster** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 5:21 am

Nice problem solving. It’s looking very good

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ronnie42 · Post by **ronnie42** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:06 pm

Hi Soeren You can buy gear and pulley packs from hobby and robotics stores. Tried to use pulleys and rubber band first but never worked . Always had slipping/ binding issues with the turret rotation . If the turret ring fitted the lower hull without some slop it should have worked. One day i will try the Tamiya leopard turret ring if i am brave enough to cut up hull and turret.

ronnie42 · Post by **ronnie42** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:14 pm

Hi Soeren They are Waltersons gears. Comes with a plate for gearboxs to sit on, 3 sizes of gears to fit motor and a gear puller if you want to change the ratio. The newer ones are steel gears instead of brass.

ronnie42 · Post by **ronnie42** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 12:05 am

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New metal sprockets and idlers to replace wobbly plastic HL ones. Sprockets not very good had to file down , inner side quite thick.Might need another go on the teeth look like a wider profile . Changed gearbox's to Taigen ones, fitted a new base for the gears . Going to use the Waltersons ones for the metal lower hull . Had to drill new fixing holes in Taigen gearbox as the original holes are under gearwheels and spindles.

ronnie42 · Post by **ronnie42** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 10:11 pm

Just about sorted the wiring added a fuse to battery lead as i am using 3C lipo,s

ronnie42 · Post by **ronnie42** » Sun Jan 13, 2019 11:48 pm

Fixing the missing part above the cleaning rod tube. Was going to repaint but i found this . From Missing -Lynx forum

Two tone brown
Dec 09, 2003 #10

Just to add a bit more confusion and controversy; a number of U.S. vets I have spoken to and written to have insisted that they observed German vehicles with two distinct shades of brown in their paint jobs. The most obvious combination, to me anyway, would be a combination of the primer coat with a coat of the "rotbraun (provide your own number-all that stuff is too confusing anyway)." I should add that the two shades of brown was seen by these vets in combination with the famous dunkelgelb and whatever we're calling the green shade this week.

: El cheapo HL ,fixed lots of faults and still not quite right. Its a challenge sorting all the problems.

ronnie42 · Post by **ronnie42** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 8:30 pm

Going to keep the Hl lower hull , Taigen hull will be saved for the Trumpeter project . Fitting supports for the sprockets and taking the edge off the lip on outer road wheels .