Hugill big cat rescue/rehabilitation
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:50 pm
Hey folks,
I've wound up with a few projects recently of the German tamiya variety
First one was fairly straight forward, tamiya tiger spares and repair with an inoperative recoil.
On arrival the plastic part at the end of the barrel had snapped. Recoil was grinding too. This was removed and on inspection the worm gear had slipped along the shaft, moving this back for the unit working. The recoil mount was also bent leading to the action being inconsistent through the stroke of the recoil. Squaring it was required to sort this.
Rotation wasnt quite right with it hanging up in places as it turned. To help stop the clutch kicking in at the smallest amount of resistance I swap the clutch gear from the final one to the middle one. This way there's less torque on it and it's more resistant to slipping.
Now the mechanical sides sorted it can go back on the shelf till I decide how to proceed. At the moment I'm quite fancying a light detailing but doing it in grey.
Despite being nearly 1/4 of a century old the tamiya tiger still holds up well. The sound might be a bit antiquated but still one of my tamiya favourites.
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I've wound up with a few projects recently of the German tamiya variety
First one was fairly straight forward, tamiya tiger spares and repair with an inoperative recoil.
On arrival the plastic part at the end of the barrel had snapped. Recoil was grinding too. This was removed and on inspection the worm gear had slipped along the shaft, moving this back for the unit working. The recoil mount was also bent leading to the action being inconsistent through the stroke of the recoil. Squaring it was required to sort this.
Rotation wasnt quite right with it hanging up in places as it turned. To help stop the clutch kicking in at the smallest amount of resistance I swap the clutch gear from the final one to the middle one. This way there's less torque on it and it's more resistant to slipping.
Now the mechanical sides sorted it can go back on the shelf till I decide how to proceed. At the moment I'm quite fancying a light detailing but doing it in grey.
Despite being nearly 1/4 of a century old the tamiya tiger still holds up well. The sound might be a bit antiquated but still one of my tamiya favourites.
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