Originally Posted by
Rad_Schuhart
Uh, I almost forgot it, I saw you installed the impact idler in your sherman. Well, I need that too. My sherman idler wheel is worn, I must say, Ausf, that the tamiya kits are not that extremelly well designed... I still cant believe that the sherman idler wheel is the only one that comes with the plain plastic wheel over the metal axle. So after some time runing, the wheel wears. Happened to many people and unfortunatelly happened to me too.
BTW, not to sound like I am defending Tamiya but their 1/16 Sherman started out as a computerized toy back in 1974 and wasn't designed for REAL R/C action like their following kits are. So what, you have to replace a $40 part? Tamiya felt it was good enough for awhile and several members here haven't replaced theirs yet!
Pretty much all of us have done it and the IMPACT part does work despite what you've read.