ORIGINAL: WhiteWolf McBride
BubbaJoeXX:
You WANT the ones shown, or the NEW ones? I ask because the new ones actually take up less space, and the originals are only 280's - and anything larger won't fit unless you find specific short-can 300+ motors (I tried that too)
Unless you can snag a pack from one of the stored 'collectors' copies, you'll probably be SOL, and if you do get 'offers', they may want as much as DMD's anyway.
Not to mention the gears are the poor Tamiya 'pot-metal' ones, and rarely stood up to use over the 3+ decades that its been out. The 'used' gearboxes often had the optional gears missing - you got either a clutched 1:100 ratio with a central gear-shaft, or a separate-drive setup with two outer gears on a 1:200 ratio (making the clutch pointless) I can post pics of the RT-1601 manual showing this if you like.
As one who HAD the RT-1601 kit (it was NEVER listed as the 56001) I can say its a poor choice over the new gearboxes and the 56014 suspension w/ bearings. Even the HL metal boxes would be better (not to mention CHEAPER) and a HL electronics system could supply more functionality too: traverse (limited but a Sexton did have SOME traverse) and elevation as well as engine noise.
Just my two hundredth-loons.
I have many henlong gear boxes but they are way to tall and I have tamtoy gear boxes and they are to wide and I have 2 complete sets of tamiya 560014 sherman gear boxes
and all of them are of no use in this unit as I want to run gear reduction motors longetudenaly with 90 degree of sets to make even more space for the electronics for the gun IE
elevater 17 degree right left and the recoil unit as well as sound and smoke as all my tamiyas are equiped with hl smoke units