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Hello. I’m new to the forum and live in Perth, Scotland. I’ve just bought a second hand Heng Long Challenger 2 from 2016. I have got it all working after a better recharge but don’t have any manual, or instruction sheet for the accessories. I can see there are a couple of parts missing but without the instructions I can’t see what I need to get. Also the tank has metal tracks which I think need tensioning better? Can anyone advise please? Thanks in advance, Andy

Welcome to the group Andy, from New York.

Broken Chally? In Scotland? Mr. Meter Rat is Your Man

He'll be along shortly I reckon.

Welcome from Perth...Ontario, Canada!
This article on the HL Challenger might be of help:
https://www.modelersite.com/en/112880/d ... 1-16-scale

Buying and resurrecting secondhand tanks--my kinda guy!

Mike.

Welcome to the forum Andy. If you haven't seen it yet, we have a dedicated Challenger section: viewforum.php?f=156 Give it a look, should be plenty of pictures in those threads to help you spot what you are missing. And yes Meter Rat is your guy for help when the rest of us fail you.

Ecam wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 12:24 am And yes Meter Rat is your guy for help when the rest of us fail you.

I meant "IF".

Ecam wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 2:29 am I meant "IF".

Quoted for posterity

Halo agus Failte gu foram bho Dùn Omhain Earra Ghaidheal agus Eileen Bhoid.

Hello and welcome to the forum from, Dunoon, Argyll and Bute. Indeed, I saw your post and and thought that makes three of us in Scotland.

What do you need to know? Seen as the most incompetent baffoon has been volunteered to help.

Then I saw the word challenger 2, and thought he’ll be living off bread and water now, and his house will be ransacked, as he will not be able to afford Tunnock’s tea cakes to appease the local haggis population.

I have some instructions for a Challenger, but you can get a complete set of parts for it from https://www.motionrc.eu/products/heng-l ... lg3908-100
It may also be worth giving Dave a ring at Forgebear tanks, a UK site. Dave is showing the spares as not in stock. Dave is on this site. Andrew at Haya, may also have them, but I could not find the spares on his site. Also UK based. Might be worth giving him a call. PM me your address and I can send the instructions to you.

Sorry Andy, I did not see the bit about the tracks. If you can post a picture of them? Challengers need their track tight. With about 3mm or less, in the middle of the bottom run, with no weight on them.

Hello, Andyscot1960: my sweetheart and I visited Scotland in 2023 and we loved it. Meter rat will take care of you. He sure was a help suggesting liquid refreshment... unh, this is about tanks...