Howdy fellow tankers! Finally some progress! After quitting in despair earlier today I change my approach and conquered the beast!

Was having a hard time cutting the 1mm wide strips of copper foil with my paper cutter. Twisted the machine around, cut 1mm marks with my hobby knife and voila!

OK, about this project. My goal was to produce a simple and reliable 350 turret ring that everyone should be able to make that in addition to the 3 wires that usually go up there, two more for options. In this case, the antenna wire and battery on power for the wireless camera that will go into my M26A1 project.

[link=http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXF857&P=7]Evergreen Styrene[/link]

[link=http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&W=001200560&I=LXS031&P=K]Copper Foil[/link]

The Evergreen metal siding is used so that the rods will have a groove to ride in. This will keep them from slipping and crossing circuits when the tank is rolling backwards off that 80 degree hill you thought you could climb! In order to maintain that groove its important to keep the copper foil as thin as possible, in this case it's .005" thick. I've spent a lot of money on the wrong parts or parts that made the project more complicated, even after drawing diagrams and doing lots of research.

Anyhow, The ring is glued with CA to the toothed ring and then holes are drilled through the grooves for the wires to attach to the foil, they are soldered on first then the wire is slipped through the hole and the copper foil is glued with CA in place. The inside where the wire goes through the styrene is sealed with Clear RTV silicone. A 3-pin and 2-pin WS Deans connectors are used.

The copper foil will be cleaned up with the Dremel to remove any excess glue and then I'll put electricity through it again. After that I'll tackle the next other half and post the results.