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From: "John Barager" <gogetta20-at-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: newbie [TANKS]
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 00:35:57 -0400
Reply-To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com 
And I don't think Balsa wood would be a good idea. My limited experiance 
with it is that it's as weak as wet paper. Most people here seem to use 
plywood, some use aluminum and steel, and I'm using straight up fiberglass. 
These things weight quite alot, and since the hull is the chassiss, it 
should be very strong and heavy.

- John Barager

----Original Message Follows----
From: JOHN PITTELLI &lt;jplily-at-yahoo.com&gt;
Reply-To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
Subject: Re: newbie [TANKS]
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 20:28:59 -0800 (PST)

Tim,
       Welcome to the funhouse. We have a great deal of
how to articles on our site. First, pick a vehicle to
build.Boxy tanks are more straightforward and easier
to build than curves or compound angles. The rest is
fairly easy, ask Chris in Australia, built his in
about 8 months.

John&quot; Panzer IV&quot; Pittelli


--- Tim Hansen &lt;barspin720-at-juno.com&gt; wrote:
&gt;
&gt; hi, i am Tim Hansen. i saw the thing on RC PaintBall
&gt; tanks on TV (Inside R/C on the outdoor channel) and
&gt; was fascinated. i have been playing paintball and
&gt; driving Nitro RC cars for about 5 years and thought,
&gt; how cool would it be to combine the two? i know how
&gt; to set up the turret to fire paintballs and where to
&gt; mount the servos to make it function, but what i
&gt; dont know is how to build the darn thing. i dont
&gt; know how to make the hull, turret, tracks/treads, or
&gt; how to make the drive system. do you make the tanks
&gt; out of balsa wood? is there anyone out there that
&gt; could send me instructions or blue prints on how to
&gt; build a simple functioning tank? any, ANY help would
&gt; be MUCH helpful.
&gt;
&gt;
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