M36B1 attempt

[wibblywobbly]

You have a remarkable memory Painless!

[tomhugill]

Really liking the covers for the servo and breach! Could you be persuaded to print me some for mine?

[wibblywobbly]

PM me, we should be able to sort something out. I am still refining the servo cover so that it is a neat install. As to what was going on in Mato's heads when they located the elevation servo I have no idea, they could have made a much neater job of it without any more work at all, possibly mounting it under the turret floor. The servo 'seems' to be a 360 degree continuous rotation one as there are no stops on the arm movement, but I won't know for sure until I can hook it up to a board or rx.

[Bogeyman]

Rob, looks like this is going turn out a real belter!!!

John

[wibblywobbly]

I totally dismantled all of the suspension units today, primered, and started airbrushing. I now have a box with a gazillion parts in it...should be fun when I have to reassemble them?

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[wibblywobbly]

Managed to get some paint on the suspension, lower hull, and upper hull. Reassembled it all to check that it all went back together ok. Now need to rebuild the front, and then I can get back to sorting out the turret.

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[Bogeyman]

Looking forward to seeing this one in the flesh, top job Rob!!

John

[wibblywobbly]

Just hit a problem with the elevation servo, there are two clumsy screws with locknuts and washers that clamp the servo down. One of the bolts has had its thread stripped so badly that the locknut is only a loose fit on the threads. There are two ways that I can solve this, one is to get some new countersunk bolts, the other is to drill new holes (the bolts are too close to the servo body, and the last is to simply glue the servo down, though I can't do that until I know that the servo is centred as I won't be able to get to the screw on the arm once it is permanently in place.

I tested the servo on a Clark board set up. however as there is no elevation servo support on those, I simply plugged the servo straight into channel 5 on the receiver. I then configured the transmitter so that a rotary knob operated channel 5. It's actually a much better way to control elevation as there is no chance of accidently activating the elevation when using the gun fire or turret rotation on the tx sticks.

[PainlessWolf]

W.W.,
How about simply sticking that servo down with some 3M product. They make a clear tape that grips like a vise yet is removable if you want to swap things out in the future. I use it now for storage details like crates, ammo cans and helmets, etc.. Haven't lost anything yet.
regards,
Painless

[wibblywobbly]

What's the tape called? Sounds like it might be a neater solution.