5 hours PST Left on a Mato sale if you want metal tracks

[Marc780]

Now might be the time. Its 6:59 US Pacific time, and it says there's only 5 hours left on the sale at Matooutlet, ali express. I had my eye on the Panther tracks shown, at $50 they don't get any cheaper even on ebay.

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/201869



Seriously agonizing over whether to get these for my new PAnther, but I have had mixed results with the ones i already have. After the Tiger and Panther I'm not sure I want to deal with metal tracks. My T-34 came with them and these are trouble free. But the metal tracks i retrofitted, on the KT and tiger have been one problem after another. The pins working their way loose, tracks working its way off the idler, and so on. For the KT i spent $56 for the henntec, from ETOarmour, since the alternative was stop using the tracks or get the Torro hull. The metal tracks on the King tiger have chewed up the plastic wheels. But I've given up on my Tiger metal tracks, and going to clean them up and sell them soon. I'm kind of tired of the whole tank, might sell it after replacing the radio with an RX18.

[wibblywobbly]

I tend to agree, metal tracks look good, and give the tank that heavy look when on the move, but they can be the devil in disguise. I used to use them, but went back to plastic as they were better 'off road'. The best tracks I had on my HL Tiger were the Tamiya ones, I never had any problems once I fitted a set of those.

Amazingly, when turning on grass I actually broke a metal link once. At the time I was impressed that the Elmod board had enough power to do that without damaging itself??

[tomhugill]

You got to make sure your chassis is suitably equipped for metal tracks, to me that means an idler adjuster, black steel taken gearboxes and metal sprockets and idlers. As wibbly has said the henglong chassis with the top bolted on is very strong so extra reinforcement isn't always needed.

[ALPHA]

Marc.... tracks at 50 dollars sounds like a deal...but if you think about it..that would almost be regular price.....you see what the vendor does is remove important parts ...the sprockets and idlers...as they are more commonly sold in sets...that's the reason on EBAY and other private sites they cost more....You need metal sprockets at the very least to run metal tracks
Metal running on plastic is only a recipe for disaster ...So spending 50 for tracks now...only to spend more later acquiring metal sprockets and idler individually will eventually add up to just purchasing a Set

Lesson is ...always consider the deal...if it sounds too good it probably has a catch

CAVEAT EMPTOR my friend

ALPHA