<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm looking for replacement gears. I have a Mato 3-1 gearbox and my pinion gear broke some teeth. I'm looking for:

20T pinion gear
36/12 spur gear

I've been looking for these items, found a place in europe, but shipping cost is high. I was hoping there was someplace in NA (US,Canada) that can carry these.

Thank You!

David
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Ouch that's a strange place to fail! Have you tried asking mato?

Try Matomart a good crew to deal with.
Brass is too soft for the use in gears. I've never had a problem with nylon in a stock grae box, after heat treating in boiling water.
A mix of steel and nylon is a good combo.

Boiling Nylon gears? hmm.. haven't tried that... Do you have a cook time in boiling water? I have another set of hl nylon from another tank and was wondering how they would hold up. The Mato gearbox in the pic came from Phil... I'll try hitting up Mato (a bit easier to contact....) and see what they have. Thanks

Boiling nylon parts and gears is something I learned in my RC car racing days back in the 80s. Boiling simply allows it to be more flexible, and absorb impact better. "Tougher".. It doesn't take very long to improve the toughness of the gears (or any other nylon parts). Bring the water to boil, take the water off the element, put the parts in let it soak for 20-30 minutes. Add some dye and give some colour. I use to dye me RC10 and TRX-1

John

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HL Tigerl, King Tiger, Pershing E3 x2, Pzr lll x2, Pzr lV, Stug. lll, Jagd/Panther G and Tam Sherman

My next tanks will be a HL Sherman and Leopard ll

I know back in my HO racing days, you either boiled the chassis to make it more flexible or you baked it to make it more ridged.

Just depending on the recipe, er... I mean what type of racing you did.


I would be cautious on boiling just standard nylon.














~ Jeff

Hey Jeff

1/10 electric on/off road compittion racing. Used to race all over southern Ontario and twice in the states. I lost more races than winning. Winning is't everything it's about having a good time with your freinds.

That's so true about winning. You must learn how to accept loosing to understand winning. Once that is accomplished and loosing doesn't destroy your physique, then you will become a better winner.

Something I couldn't teach my little brother.


I raced for over 13 years and won my fair share of races, local events and one of my cars I built won the HOPRA National SS Championship. And that was 13 years ago.














~ Jeff

There used to be an ONLINE racing series where you downloaded your track times into a data base and they compiled the data and built graphic display so you could play the race back on your computer. It was great fun. The trick was to turn consistent track times.

I had a 4 lane 1/24 scale wooden track in my basement for awhile where I drove all the old 1/24 scale COX classics. I still have the cars.

mortak I haven't tried them yet but from what I have seen the Waltersons gears are the same same size. I have plenty of them gears as spares. Payu for the shipping and I'll send yoiu one of each. I am 95% sure they will fit and you will have no issues.

Got a used set of transmissions/partial gears coming in (Thanks green Amphib!).... and have ordered a new set of pinions from MatoMart. I've looked at walter and thought the same thing, they look the same. Asiatam also has the gears... Shipping was a bit expensive... I mean, go figure.. stuff from china takes a few days to arrive snail mail.. yet practically impossible from germany (better/quicker using courier).
I figure I'd build up a collection of spares... knowing that brass is such a long lasting, tough metal, an excellent choice for transmission gears....... .

Thanks for the help! The Mato gear set is set is going into my T34/85, love the T-34 and loved moding it into a pretty decent battle tank. It was one of those projects where that WSN shell didn't last 30 minutes out of the box before I started pulling/cutting all sorts of stuff from the lower chassis.... the wsn transmissions were the first to be dumped into the garbage (ok, not garbage, but the spareparts/scrap shoebox). Tried HL long shaft gearboxes, but couldn't fit a promax 400. a 380 was the largest. Super fast with no hits.. but and after 3-4 hits, it didn't have any torque left to move. Upgraded to a Mato Gearbox/380 motor and torque was great. Bad part is the high tensil strength brass.... ...... Could have (rather should?) gone with impacts..... Haven't tried using Tam Jagpanther gearboxes...that would be my next experiment(I'd have to buy some tam sprockets though.....) oh well.... I'll battle with Mato's , their really good trannys when they run........

Again, thanks for the assist.... RC tank community is small, but the expertise/knowledge is what keeps this hobby alive... Happy Tanking... both RC and online (WOT)... lol...