Anyone tried metal tracks on their Tam Pershing?

I put Kenny Kong's metal tracks on my Tamiya Pershing back in 2004 and it is still rolling along fine. They add quite a lot of weight, but don't worry. The Pershing's drive and gears are designed robustly enough that I have never had a problem. It maneuvers through all kinds of terrain without fail and I think the extra weight helps it ride and move in a much more realistic "tank-like" (read: heavy) manner. Many of the guys here consider the Pershing to be Tamiya's best engineered tank to date.

I have Inpact T-81 tracks on my Super Pershing and t-84 on the m-26A1, look great, sound great and no problems.

I've got Mato metal tracks on my Tam Persh, and they fit fine. I wouldn't recommend them though, they lose bits every time I run them. You need to have alot of replacement pins and retainer clips. I've had the Mato's on there for about 1 year, and have replaced maybe 25 parts so far. Just poor molding resulting in castings disintegrating with use.

Kenny's tracks or Impacts are the way to go. I didn't do much else to the Persh. Best Tamiya I've built.

Hmm sounds great. I like my tanks heavy

I am thinking of putting metal tracks on my T34 too. Well may even put metal tracks on my other projects. I really love metal tracks as they really add that touch to the whole tank and it really sounds great.

Just too many projects but so little time.

One question, the aluminium hull of those Tam Tanks, I am thinking of doing something similar and would like to know how they join the edges up? Do they weld them? Is there a household type welder which can weld aluminium? Anyone knows?

On the Sherman and King Tiger it is just folded, no welding, some places are bolted along with plastic or metal parts.

Since were on the subject of the KT, is that the idler upgrade?

It's the DT upgrade, works great, well built, does take a bit of time to get the springs cut and adjusted right, but once your done it's another Top of the line Daryl Turner well engineered part.

Gary

Ok noted. However, does anyone know if there's any household type welder etc?

Not gonna happen. Aluminum is very difficult to weld and any machine that is cappable of doing so is gonna be HIGH AC current and very expensive. not easily done at home.

About the only "household type" of bonding for aluminum would be using JB Weld, a 2 part epoxy with metal type properties for bonding metal together.

Also do not waste your time with aluminium solder paste, I tried usingthat to solder some aluminium pieces and it never did solder teh pieces together and at the same time caused a mess.

Yup heard about the JB Weld, it would seem that's the only way to go.

I had the mato pershing metal track on my Tamiya and took them off. They ripped off one of the road wheels and added way to much weight for me. I'm happy with the stock tamiya tracks.

Sad to hear that, I hoped it didn't cause any other damage. The road wheels are quite weak in terms of using metal track. I might need to fashion some aluminium road wheels but that would come later.