Beach running...

[bikerdude]

Has anyone here run their tanks on a beach? We're going to Norfolk in a couple of weeks, and was planning on taking a tank with me and having some fun with sand castles and trenches... I made the mistake of mentioning it to my sons and now they want to take theirs, but I'm unsure of just how badly the sand will affect the parts. Do you reckon with a good freshwater clean down (making sure the electrics don't get wet) I'd get rid of enough traces of sand for it to have little to no effect on longevity? Was planning on doing this as it'd give us something else to do on the beach as we're looking for a cheap holiday, so don't want to have a cheap holiday and then spend £££'s on replacing parts.
Thanks.

[wibblywobbly]

Personally I wouldn't, as the sand will get into every moving part, and there is reason why they glue sand to paper and sell it as an abrasive

[tomhugill]

I ran my tamiya Leo, Tamiya king tiger and hooben t-55 and on the beach and they were ok, sand did end up in the lower hull but away from the gears!

[bikerdude]

Thanks, I'll probably just stick with the 1 tank then. It was bought as a spare runabout, in case 1 of ours is U/S at some point, plastic tracks, wheels, and gearboxes, which I'll swap out for metal at some point in the future anyway. We'll be taking the vacuum in the caravan with us, so maybe take a screwdriver too and give it a quick clean out each day. Other bonus of only taking 1 tank, is that I can charge all batteries before we go, and then I'll have 5 to last us a few days.
I'll try and get some videos to put up if there's any interest.

[bikerdude]

We have, and we'll have electric hookup, but the charger I use is fairly large and weighty, I like to use a charger that turns off when the battery is done, as I never remember to turn it off after a certain amount of time. So I'd need to take the charger and then take the power source for the charger too.

Plus it's our first time away in it, and my first time towing, so we're trying to not take anything more than we need!

[bikerdude]

Haha bad luck, it'll probably rain the entire time we're there too, especially as we want to do it cheap, so then we'll have to pay to go do indoor things!

1 Indoor thing we will be doing though is the 'muckleburgh collection'. We 'didn't get time' (read as, wife refused to go) last time went to Norfolk, but my eldest is now interested in that sort of thing, and I almost had to carry my 2 y/o out of the land warfare part of Duxford, he loved all the tanks and lorries etc.

It's a tiger we'll be taking, so the part are cheap and easy to get should it all go horribly wrong. Childish of me but really looking forward to getting the kids to build sand castles, walls, and moats, so we can drive over the lot! I'd love to take my Bulldog, but having just shelled out for nice black metal tracks and sprockets, I'd hate to ruin them in the sand, despite being the cheap end of the market I do love it.

[jukebox]

Hi,
I'm in Norfolk, I think it would also depend which beach you're going to use, some of them have a lot of small stones pushed up on them following the storms last winter, good for jamming tracks and sprockets! If you stick to the firm sand following a falling tide it should be fun though, PM me and I might be able to help if you're going to be anywhere my location, I do think all plastics is the way to go for this though!

If you haven't been before the Muckleburgh Collection at Weybourne is worth a visit, http://www.muckleburgh.co.uk/, not as polished a set-up as Duxford or Bovington but you can get up close to the vehicles and tanks, also have some runners they take-out occasionally.

Cheers

Steve

[bikerdude]

I'm going to do up a bulldog with faster motors and closed pin tracks for beach driving lol.
Got to have one doing this

https://youtu.be/_q9MME3R09U

Think I've seen that video before, looks good, I like the speed of it too, I do like things vastly over scale, I've got the only planing WWI battleship at the local boat club! Looks like the suspension has been softened on that bulldog? And what are closed pin tracks? Think the metal ones I bought are 'Mato', they run as slack as in that video, but turning on the spot on grass makes them start to come off and the sprocket then spins in the track so will probably remove a link and run them tighter.

Hi,
I'm in Norfolk, I think it would also depend which beach you're going to use, some of them have a lot of small stones pushed up on them following the storms last winter, good for jamming tracks and sprockets! If you stick to the firm sand following a falling tide it should be fun though, PM me and I might be able to help if you're going to be anywhere my location, I do think all plastics is the way to go for this though!

If you haven't been before the Muckleburgh Collection at Weybourne is worth a visit, http://www.muckleburgh.co.uk/, not as polished a set-up as Duxford or Bovington but you can get up close to the vehicles and tanks, also have some runners they take-out occasionally.

Cheers

Steve

Has Norfolk had a bad winter again? We're going to Cromer, last time we went there (2014 I think) the pier was closed due to storm damage the previous winter. The beach there looked quite nice, but for some reason we kept going elsewhere, wells next the sea (never again) and some other place a few miles north, there was a big stately home open to the public just the other side of the main road I think. But had to walk a long way to get to each beach, which with a 2 year old wasn't much fun!

[jukebox]

Hey Mr jukebox, do you per chance race in the mussel bay club?

Mick.

Hi Mick,

No, but I have raced against them when I was at Presto Park, been a few years since I hung up my Parma controller! Still have all my cars and track in boxes in the loft though, waiting for the day I get time to build a permanent track.

[jukebox]

I'm going to do up a bulldog with faster motors and closed pin tracks for beach driving lol.
Got to have one doing this

https://youtu.be/_q9MME3R09U

Think I've seen that video before, looks good, I like the speed of it too, I do like things vastly over scale, I've got the only planing WWI battleship at the local boat club! Looks like the suspension has been softened on that bulldog? And what are closed pin tracks? Think the metal ones I bought are 'Mato', they run as slack as in that video, but turning on the spot on grass makes them start to come off and the sprocket then spins in the track so will probably remove a link and run them tighter.

Hi,
I'm in Norfolk, I think it would also depend which beach you're going to use, some of them have a lot of small stones pushed up on them following the storms last winter, good for jamming tracks and sprockets! If you stick to the firm sand following a falling tide it should be fun though, PM me and I might be able to help if you're going to be anywhere my location, I do think all plastics is the way to go for this though!

If you haven't been before the Muckleburgh Collection at Weybourne is worth a visit, http://www.muckleburgh.co.uk/, not as polished a set-up as Duxford or Bovington but you can get up close to the vehicles and tanks, also have some runners they take-out occasionally.

Cheers

Steve

Has Norfolk had a bad winter again? We're going to Cromer, last time we went there (2014 I think) the pier was closed due to storm damage the previous winter. The beach there looked quite nice, but for some reason we kept going elsewhere, wells next the sea (never again) and some other place a few miles north, there was a big stately home open to the public just the other side of the main road I think. But had to walk a long way to get to each beach, which with a 2 year old wasn't much fun!

Hi,
Yes, we had a couple of bad storms and a storm surge, lots of pesky small stones pushed up the beaches!