Question Answers:

1. Suppressors are not required for the ETO Armor sourced motors that I used.

2. At the time of my various builds, the ETO Armor motors and Impact 8T pinion gear had been developed and recommended by ETO Armor for use at Danville and that is my understanding and still used today with no issues. I checked.

3. I have commissioned Daryl Turner to guide a Danville IR purposed rc tank "world class model" build, relying on his excellent recommendations, design, engineering and metal fabrication skills and that is my best research source for building IR legal AAF Museum fighters, plus a few other guys who also actually fight there.

3a. The gearboxes in my Danville JS-2 build are DT's "combat spec built gearboxes" which have been used by many guys and girls running at Danville for some time now.

4. Per James, the owner of my almost stock JS-2 Danville build (plus collecting some very high end Daryl Turner collaboration rc tank builds, including a KV-1, Tiger II and an Leopard 1A4, assembled and setup by me):

This is what he says about the JS-2, ETO Armor motors/8T Pinion Gear legal speed while running at Danville for almost 2 years now:

"Yes, no problems with that. It is not the fastest tank, but it is close to the real one in scale speed."

Look him up the next time you all are at Danville, he will happily show you his rc tanks and what makes them go and fight.

5. I live on the other coast and my rc tanks (for my use) are setup for charging across lawns and soft or drought hard dirt fields, like Kursk, during the Summer of 1943 (not Danville). So, the setup for my tanks includes ETO motors, Impact 8T Pinion Gears, a Daryl Turner gearbox mount brace (if available), removing and CA gluing the rotation and elevation units clutch gears and a metal elevation arm. Everything else in my rc tank build is OEM Tamiya out of the box including the tracks.

5. For comparison, below is a Tamiya legacy static kit converted to full option by Daryl Turner. It is a very fancy, high end, expensive Tiger II build setup purposed for AAF Museum, Danville IR fights using ETO black motors, Schumo gear reduction and Impact 8T pinion gears for scale speed and being able to maneuver after the 7th hit (LOL).

The Daryl Turner commissioned project is designed, engineered, fabricated hull and turret using all the bells and whistles, for sure: spring loaded return idlers, road wheel bearings, hull braces, gear box mount brace, Impact Metal Tracks & Early Drive Sprockets, ETO metal Porsche Turret Barrel, metal glacis plate braces and much more. I have found just asking the guys who participate at the AAF Museum Battles, when doing your build research for your Daniville rc tank, works pretty good. Anyway it is the t/c that wins battles, so I find they are pretty open about their IR tank build secrets.



Enjoy, John