Does anyone have or has access to a machine shop? I'm looking for someone who can make a pair of sprockets about half size of the Pz III. That'as the big eyesore on my Japanese type 97,, the Pz III sprocket is way too big and I can't find anything smaller that would fit the Pz III tracks. [&o]Fortunately, the Japanese tracks are nearly identical to the German, so metal Pz II tracks work great..

Also anyone familiar with the Pirannah charger....are they prone to undercharge?[:-] I have charged two 2000 batteries and the machine indicated full charge..(machine is set correct by my son).. but the tank started fading out a minute after cranking. [X(]I removed the smoker unit from the tank as I couldn't locate any switch (Pz III upraded chassis) and it's doing fine with a battery I charged with a HL plug in unit. [8D]Could the smoker have sapped so much juice? It was kicking out a lot of smoke and looked great, but can't sacrifice the entire tank for a bit of smelly smoke. [][]

Appreciate any advice or help.

Bill

The switch is on the hull side, port side. The Piranha is a peak charger, only charges as much as the batteries can take.

Patton, how about modifying the pzIII sprocket, clip off the outer portion, sand the facing flat and this will give you a hub to screw/glue a smaller, scale detailed sprocket to. You could probably use a thin washer and use a dremel to make the teeth. Just spit balling here....

the switch for the smoker is circled in yellow on the piccie

Some time ago I did a modification for a 1/18th scale Panzer 4 to run HL gearboxes. (This was just as the Panzer 3 was released) was working on building

Jagdpanzer 4, with the release of the 16th Panzer I felt that the project would not be accepted in the Tamiya game.

Any way try using the HL tiger spocket hub and mate it to the RC Panzer4 sprocket and the reason is it just fits the 1/16 Panzer 3 plastic tracks.

I have done extensive drive testing using the 1/16 panz3 tracks on the 1/18 Panz4 and it works great!

Just my 2 cents

bullyhys