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I'm looking for a set of Tiger 1 late model road wheels with bearings to work with a Taigen metal lower hull, all I'm find is early model road wheels with bearings
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As you are in the U.S try IMEX in Florida. Or, just go to Forgebear Tanks in the UK anyway, hes as good as they get

HERMAN BIX wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 7:34 am As you are in the U.S try IMEX in Florida. Or, just go to Forgebear Tanks in the UK anyway, hes as good as they get

I contacted Forgebear, he said only early model road wheels from Taigen have bearings, the late do not .
I'm not sure what other manufacturers ones will work with the metal hull? I know the axle shafts have smooth ends for the set screws, the plastic hull has coarse thread, I have a lathe and could lathe off the thread , but that's alot of effort I'd rather not spend lol, plus not sure if it would end up under sized ?

I believe the long coarse threads are designed to go all the way through the early Tiger roadwheels and swing arms then engage in travel limiting slots in the hull sides as you were advised.
The late set up has the smooth axles that are retained by grub screws in the swing arms which are travel limited by small pegs on each arm that engage the slots. I dont recall seeing any late wheels with bearings outside of Impact ones, but now thats said, there will be loads of fingers pointing to just what you need
Ive run the Taigen late set up for ages without failure so having bearings in them isn't really a deal breaker I reckon.

HERMAN BIX wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 8:37 am I believe the long coarse threads are designed to go all the way through the early Tiger roadwheels and swing arms then engage in travel limiting slots in the hull sides as you were advised.
The late set up has the smooth axles that are retained by grub screws in the swing arms which are travel limited by small pegs on each arm that engage the slots. I dont recall seeing any late wheels with bearings outside of Impact ones, but now thats said, there will be loads of fingers pointing to just what you need
Ive run the Taigen late set up for ages without failure so having bearings in them isn't really a deal breaker I reckon.

I'm debating if I want to tap the swing arms for threaded axles vs the set screws, I don't really care for that , plus I've seen some road wheels where the axles completely capture the road wheels to keep them from separating? That I really rather have ? Do the 2 piece glue ones that I currently have come apart with use? Or the ca bond is more then strong enough?

Ive never had any separate in use.
Do you know what make yours are?

HERMAN BIX wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 9:22 pm Ive never had any separate in use.
Do you know what make yours are?

I do not, not sure how to post pics using mobile devices?

are they a grey colour by chance ?

HERMAN BIX wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 4:52 am are they a grey colour by chance ?

Yes unpainted

Ahh.
Not a shiny silver but a grey, like Panzer Grey ?

If so, these could be very old type versions that were for Matorro Sturmtigers .
A pic would help.

Try takinga picute on your phone/device
Save that to you photo files.
on the forum site you will see below the test box you write in a small box with Attachments on it.
Hit that and it give you options to select photo album
select that and choose you required pics by tapping on each one(s)
wait for them to load(you will see each one progress until they are all ready) and then hit the SUBMIT button under your test box.
They should go in.
The file limit is 3MB each pic so take a pic as close up on the subject as you can..

Try that & we''ll see if you get pics to work