Re: [TANKS] "The Tank Farm" in Nokesville, VA, 24 - 25 September 2016

2016-09-27 Thread Jean St-Pierre 
Great job!!!

Showing the hobby to the world is very important to get as many people
possible to give it a try and maybe get some of them to envolve in it!!!

Happy to see that kind of event working well!!!

Jean-Maxime Cyr St-Pierre

Le 27 sept. 2016 5:30 PM, "Mike Lyons"  a écrit :

> A great day!
> Beautiful weather, lots of people attended the event and we had around 200
> kid-visits (many repeaters) at our activity.
>
> Frank and John set up half a dozen silhouette targets of tanks and
> vehicles, plus one of an ambulance, and a post with 6 circular targets.
> A couple of shooters hit the ambulance and had to perform The Walk of
> Shame to go wipe it off.
>
> John had kids taking 10 shots each with the Navarone Gun
> .
> Prizes were awarded for the most hits in the shortest time each hour, plus
> instant prizes for first-shot hits on the post targets.
>
> Frank had kids occasionally driving the Semovente
>  to attract
> visitors when things were quiet (which wasn't often)
> and was promoting the hobby to anyone who would listen.
> Several adults were very interested in (and many more just amused by) the
> R/C Tank Combat concept.
>
> David and his buddy Dean had kids working Bazooka Joe
> 
> while I oversaw Len Opie
> .
> Kids were allowed 3 shots on each and about 75% were able to hit one of
> the closer targets.
> Some of the best shooters were young girls.
>
> Bazooka Joe's marker locked up after about 100 rounds.
> I suspect it got liquid CO2 in there and something broke and jammed the
> bolt open.
> I need to rearrange the layout so I can tilt the bottle.
>
> Len Opie had a new rotate servo mechanism installed the night before and
> ran flawlessly* all day,
> on a single set of 4 AA batteries for the R/C receiver and 3 servos, for
> an estimated 500 rounds.
> * I had to manually cock the marker a little each time because it wouldn't
> fully cock with the trigger depressed.
> I was using a toggle switch to fire and separate joysticks for rotate and
> elevate.
> Unless the toggle switch was rapidly reset it caused the problem.
> Not a big deal for a single-shot asset.
> A momentary pushbutton switch on the R/C transmitter would solve the
> problem
> but I plan to build a custom control box as used with RL001.
>
> At the end of the day the closer targets were almost completely covered in
> paintball goo.
>
> When a pair of 12ish boys came back for their third time through I asked
> if they had seen everything else.
> They told me "*Yeah, but this is the coolest thing here.*"
> This at an event with dozens of armored vehicles, many other vehicles, a
> helicopter to sit in, horse cavalry,
> working dogs, lots of people in uniform with weapons, LEGO building, tank
> demos, flamethrower demos, and more!
>
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Re: [TANKS] "The Tank Farm" in Nokesville, VA, 24 - 25 September 2016

2016-09-27 Thread Mike Lyons 
A great day!
Beautiful weather, lots of people attended the event and we had around 200 
kid-visits (many repeaters) at our activity.

Frank and John set up half a dozen silhouette targets of tanks and 
vehicles, plus one of an ambulance, and a post with 6 circular targets.
A couple of shooters hit the ambulance and had to perform The Walk of Shame 
to go wipe it off.

John had kids taking 10 shots each with the Navarone Gun 
.
Prizes were awarded for the most hits in the shortest time each hour, plus 
instant prizes for first-shot hits on the post targets.

Frank had kids occasionally driving the Semovente 
 to attract 
visitors when things were quiet (which wasn't often)
and was promoting the hobby to anyone who would listen.
Several adults were very interested in (and many more just amused by) the 
R/C Tank Combat concept.

David and his buddy Dean had kids working Bazooka Joe 
 while 
I oversaw Len Opie 
.
Kids were allowed 3 shots on each and about 75% were able to hit one of the 
closer targets.
Some of the best shooters were young girls.

Bazooka Joe's marker locked up after about 100 rounds.
I suspect it got liquid CO2 in there and something broke and jammed the 
bolt open.
I need to rearrange the layout so I can tilt the bottle.

Len Opie had a new rotate servo mechanism installed the night before and 
ran flawlessly* all day,
on a single set of 4 AA batteries for the R/C receiver and 3 servos, for an 
estimated 500 rounds.
* I had to manually cock the marker a little each time because it wouldn't 
fully cock with the trigger depressed.
I was using a toggle switch to fire and separate joysticks for rotate and 
elevate.
Unless the toggle switch was rapidly reset it caused the problem.
Not a big deal for a single-shot asset.
A momentary pushbutton switch on the R/C transmitter would solve the 
problem 
but I plan to build a custom control box as used with RL001.

At the end of the day the closer targets were almost completely covered in 
paintball goo.

When a pair of 12ish boys came back for their third time through I asked if 
they had seen everything else.
They told me "*Yeah, but this is the coolest thing here.*"
This at an event with dozens of armored vehicles, many other vehicles, a 
helicopter to sit in, horse cavalry,
working dogs, lots of people in uniform with weapons, LEGO building, tank 
demos, flamethrower demos, and more!

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RE: [TANKS] Torsion spring making

2016-09-27 Thread Ben Holko 
sorry never weighed it, but I would guess at least 30kg if not 40. The 
suspension could be softer, but be careful the softer you go the better in one 
way, but the more risk of throwing tracks



From: rctankcombat@googlegroups.com [rctankcombat@googlegroups.com] on behalf 
of taranaki tanker [saunderspeter...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 3:54 PM
To: R/C Tank Combat
Subject: RE: [TANKS] Torsion spring making

Hey thanks for the info mate, what do you reckon your m113 weighs in at, I'm 
probably looking at a all up weight of about 25-30 kgs.Do you have a good 
deflection from the suspension?

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