FreakyDude

Glen remember Tiger 332? same box as that with a different drive shaft. I hope you do remember the Grey 332

Glen B

Tiger 332 was a HL Tiger I with Mato 3:1's; 1st picture

My Das Reich HL Tiger I also has Mato 3:1's; 2nd picture

The other gearboxes seem to me to be similar in general configuration, but have differences from the Mato's; 3rd picture

My Mato's do not have the mounting tab shown on the outside of the right gearbox, ahead of the motor; 4th picture, this appears to match up with a tapped hole in the gearbox mounting plate on a Taigen Tiger I

FreakyDude

Glen

Glen B

Mato 3:1 for a HL Tiger I is on the right, the other one is on the left, both are for the left side.They are close. but not the same.

Imex-Erik

I am not familiar with a Clark board as I should be. I hopefully will be ordering one soon for testing my personal tank. However, the barrel does have a flash, though software takes care of the recoil in the tracks. FreakyDude would be the guy to talk to about Clark boards.

Quote:

ORIGINAL: kingtiger88

Hi Erik,

I have an Imex Taigen King Tiger IR version on order and wanted to know if the recoil is similar to what it would be if a Clark TK22 board was installed. In other words, does the barrel have a flash and does it go backwards when 'fired'?

Thanks,

Congrats on your new Tiger! However, you should of contacted me first thing! A cracked hull is most likely from shipping, but we are always glad to help/replace/offer alternatives to any problem. The lower hull can be replaced no problem very quickly. As for the gearboxes, the steel gears was a mess up on my end, I was still new here and got some incorrect information and passed it along. They are zinc alloy gearboxes, HOWEVER, we do have brass gearboxes coming (with new high torque motors) in the next few weeks. Either way, if you wish, you can contact me through our website and I'll fix your issues promptly. Don't worry about the steel ones, they are being looked into, but I can announce no current plans for them.

Quote:

ORIGINAL: mcm308

Hello , I purchased a full metal Tiger 1 from The Motorpool. So far I have ran 3 full battery packs through it.  Its a great tank and I love it. However, I will mention my couple quirks.. when it arrived, I opened the box to find a cracked lower hull on the fender support? Doesn't seem structural or affect the way it runs so I didn't raise a stink about it . Just bugged me a bit that it arrived new that way. Second is the gearboxes, I thought these came with black steel gears? Mine came with pot metal gears that some of the gear teeth only engage the opposing gear halfway and not full gear contact. I'm sure its a matter of time before the teeth start to strip and now I'm a little hesitant to install more powerful motors. A little disappointed in this.. other then those 2 things. Its awesome! I would probably be interested in a set of those brass gearboxes to have on the shelf for when the original pot metal ones fail.

EDIT: Just went back and read the whole thread and now I'm a little confused..  4.1 boxes with STEEL gears were an option in what? 

tomhugill

Freaky these tus are just the asiatam ones that have been out a very long time. They're far superior to the mato tus of any generation.

Imex-Erik

Strato50

They look tough, I like any new gearbox products that look beefy such as these. I don't know of anyone in the club here with them but I think they can be popular.

YHR

As someone else mentioned these have been out for years marketed as Asiatam in the past.

Ex_Pat_Tanker

At least a half dozen Asiatam sets here...

The Gearset I really want is the ones RCCommand used to sell - the gear ratio was more than the stock HL ratio, but not the massive reduction that the 4:1 sets provide [&o] - the 4:1's are OK for Tigers, but when you are trying to get scale speed out of a Bulldog (or even a Pershing or Panther!) they ain't much use [&o]

Strato50

Agreed. I like the steel 4:1s a lot, they make my KV-2 zip around like a speed deamon yet in my Tiger & Panzer IV, sluggish!

I've mentioned before I'd love a standard ratio steel set with bearings.. Taigen should jump on those.

YHR yes you're totally correct, I didn't recognize them!!

jrowe

I saw these available on the Taigen web site called to order a couple and was told they were sold out! how long have they been available? i thought i was keeping track on them but guess not!

Imex-Erik

We put up a picture, but they still arent here yet
I promise I'll let you guys know first thing.

Imex-Erik

Cruiser133

Not very "military", but very cool none the less. Me Likey.

bowlman

Reminds me of my teenage years back in the mid 70's it was popular when we had big tires on the rear and air shocks to raise the rear end replace the rear drive cover with a chrome one after painting it then add blue lighting untell the cop made us stop running the lights it was ok when parked but not driving down the street .

Jimmy

Imex-Erik

kev308

I wonder if anyone makes 16th scale spinners for the road wheels????

Arctic Cat ZRT

I think it looks really cool, yes it is not prototypical, but it does give your tank some extra flare and a person touch! I may just have to "borrow" your idea. 

Imex-Erik

Thanks! If I get enough people liking it, I'll redo all the wiring and set it up nice and show how I did it to everyone
Next time I will go with a lot more single LEDs and really light the tank up. The hardest part is getting the lights on the bottom of the tank and wiring them. So far I have pushed well over 8 hours with the lights on and the battery is still good, I'm hoping to get around 12 hours of lights on one charge.

jrowe

With the right lighting you could simulate some type of explosion under the tank like running over a mine or something.

Imex-Erik

Or you could hook the LED lights up to the headlights and it would glow when connected and blink when not. You could also hook up the LEDs to the machine gun switch and use the button on the remote to flash them

Good news! The kit is getting closer and closer to being finalized! It is a grueling job working on instructions and such, hopefully you guys will get to see it soon enough.

mcm308

[QUOTE=Imex-Erik;11574238
Congrats on your new Tiger! However, you should of contacted me first thing! A cracked hull is most likely from shipping, but we are always glad to help/replace/offer alternatives to any problem. The lower hull can be replaced no problem very quickly. As for the gearboxes, the steel gears was a mess up on my end, I was still new here and got some incorrect information and passed it along. They are zinc alloy gearboxes, HOWEVER, we do have brass gearboxes coming (with new high torque motors) in the next few weeks. Either way, if you wish, you can contact me through our website and I'll fix your issues promptly. Don't worry about the steel ones, they are being looked into, but I can announce no current plans for them.


[/QUOTE]

Hi Erik,
Thanks for responding to my post! I didn't pursue the problem when I received it because I didn't think I would have much support and that it would be a hassle. I guess I was wrong.
I will try to get in touch with you through your website or you can shoot me an email at [email protected]. Again, Thanks and I really appreciate it !

Panther G

I have the very first set of steel geared TU's that RCCommand ever sold in my Tiger. They are probably the toughest TU i have except for the Impacts Willy built for my Panther. The gear ration on the RCC boxes is awesome. My tank weighs close to 10 pounds and climbs anything. great gear boxes. shame they can't be found or re issued by some one.

bowlman

You mean these .

Jimmy