Tamiya Pershing

[971wright]

Hi Guys Just had a delivery from postman pat,a Tamiya Pershing havnt decided what im going to do with it yet, will have a good look at it and then make my mind up .The cost was £150 +post which is a real bargin would cost that for the DMD&MF units .have taken a few snaps to show it as it came out of the box there seems to be a few extra sprues extra engine covers and hatches muzzle brake plus lots of little bits .

  regards pete

[Glory71]

150.00 GBP?    Your kidding...really?! That's just US$243 ish. Damn! We did you get this?  Are there more?

I am happy for you 971wright...my only wish is that are more of that from where it came from...lol.

[Gigantohawk]

How's the build going mate ?

Nick.

[971wright]

Hi Guys Been in the shed today stripping the Pershing down to see whats what ,while Ive had it stripped done a few mods .First took longer to strip than I thought the guy who built it did a good job didnt find anything wrong with what he had done ,found a bonus took a wheel off and behold its got the modified bearings allready fitted (this has saved me another £30 sorry welshdragon )
          So with a smile on my face and everything on the bench first to get a mod was the speaker, nothing subtlie hear took the top off and cut down the side off the speaker with the hacksaw,then screwed the cover back on and cut that quick clean up with a file and glued a piece of plastic sheet to the side.
          Next to get a mod were the gearboxes this is by way of an experiment have managed to get hold off 8 tooth pinions 2mm bore,opened up the holes to fit the shafts then filed the motor hole to allow the motor to move and mesh the gears ,this should give me a 20% reduction in gearing which should slow it and give it more torque .
          Next was to fit I.R.emitter in the mantle very easy drill 6mm hole and fit tube with I.R.emmitter through the sight hole
pic 31 left gearbox with mod
pic 32 right gearbox before  pic33 after mod
pic 44 mantle I.R.emmitter mod
pic 45 speaker mod


  regards pete

[BREL]

Pete, I cut  the speaker box in my Pershing in the same way as you have done

[971wright]

Hi Stewart it does make alot more room inside might be able to sqweeze another battery in but will have to wait and see ,it definetley makes running the wires easy.

regards pete

just playing with the radio trying a spektrum DX5e will see if it works O.K.

[Mackem]

Hi Pete,

Fitting drive cogs with less teeth to get speed reduction is an excellent idea. If it works we will all be wanting you to supply us with them. 

Cheers
John

[971wright]

Hi Guys Got it working with Spektrum radio finaly took some time to work it out but it works ,Had the hull out and test ran it with the 8 tooth drive, it has slowed it dosnt run off like a wild cat now still has a good speed but you can tell its slower should work fine.But will have to test some more when its all up weight is on board .

regards pete

[BREL]

by how much did you have to move the motors Pete, because I don't fancy stripping the pershing down just yet to make this modification

[971wright]

Hi Stewart If you take a close look at the photos you can see they have a double hole on one side for the motor mounting screw and the big hole is elongated in total about about 2mm .I didnt alter on of the hole in case it didnt work ,then I could return and use 10 tooth pinion .You will have to remove the gearboxes to alter them ,its alot off work but the mod dosnt take long to do ,you will also need a pinion puller .

regards pete