Whoa, I've never seen that! 

I suspect a shipping or manufacturer issue, that's not normal. I drive the crap out of my Tiger (same hull) and it's perfect as ever. 

Get ahold of Erik @ Taigen for parts. Might get lucky and get them for free.

Removing the sprocket is one of the best ways on a Tiger for track removal. Pins tend to bend, break, if you remove them often enough. Glen is bang on with 1/4" tubing for emitters, the LED fits perfectly inside.

You seem to be well on your way

remember what i said on the phone?

Ah Tom someday will be a tamyia but for now this has been my only issue of " bad quality" and its not the end of the world for me, but it does have some tamyia paint on it so that should make you happier

Capp wrote:

Ah Tom someday will be a tamyia

Well, at the June 2014 Meet, I saw a suspension arm fail on a Tamiya tank, they are nice, but like anything else, not immune to problems.


Anyway, let me know if you have difficulty getting a replacement.

Thanks, I am in the process of looking now, and if all else fails for the short term i will try some epoxy. These darn german machines and the notorious mechanical failures

I saw this happening to beginner over and over. Nobody want to listen. Where is that 'White tiger'? the worst thing is for beginner to taste their first apple sour, then they quit.

I don't think epoxy on its own will do it.

I had a damaged idler that was broken in shipment.

The repair procedure starts on the lower part of this thread;

https://can-amrctankclub.canadian-forum.com/t309-tiger-i-late-taigen-from-the-aff-museum-shop-to-be-done-in-abt-506-colours?highlight=taigen

But this had more "meat" to work with, after two seasons it is fine, I have not installed the replacement I received.


The club welcomes people with all brands of tanks; personally, I have had upgraded HL's and Taigen's since we founded the club in 2010 and have had no complaints.

Capp
don't use any glue or anything like that. Let me see if I can get us some parts for your tank first.

Wow Capp that's crazy ! I have two Tiger I, 2 KVs, 2 King Tigers and 1 Panther Taigen metal hulls and have never seen that. I guess I better take a look now. Is it three in one spot or is it all over ? Didn't the wheels of the broken one fell off, or is because it is interleave so they are just holding on by other wheels ?

If they are all on one spot then perhaps it was drop at that spot and they just snap off, If they are all over then it must be a bad batch of torsion bars. Did you find the broken pieces in the tank ?

So what happens when you press on the wheels that has the broken torsion bar ? I am just wondering if we should all go check our Taigen metal lowers for the defect if it is not obvious when you run it.

MikeC.

3 different ones.  all on the right side of the tank, where they sheared is on the inside of the locking tabs so the tabs still held the wheels on as well as the interleaving and tracks.
I only found it when the tracks were off and the wheel was allowed to travel alot more, ie when i held the tank the 3 wheels dropped much lower then the others. I will try and take a sample picture later to give everyone an Idea what it did.

As promised here are the pics, the first is the good side standard suspension drop
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And the second is how far the broken ones drop, I have the good ones removed for paint now, but you get the idea.
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seeing the pics like this I will post one more with a couple good ones in to really make it clear.

Ok so this shows the height difference well, wheels 2 and 4 are fine and 1,3,and 5 are sheared

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Right......... So none of mine does that when I take the track off for painting. I guess it is pretty obvious. Still amazed at the defect and the fact that there is 3 of them in a single tank.

MikeC.

will have your parts in a few days Capp.

Curtis. U r the man.!

Thank you Freaky.

Capp, did you get the tank from Freaky or he is just being nice ? Hopefully it will be in running shape on the 16th and you will get to battle with it. Or maybe "field repairs" on that day with all the tank minds there.

MikeC.

I got the tank from Freaky, but he is being nice and has been great at helping with a bunch of unposted questions I have had.

So on with the paint/build while the suspension is in limbo, here is the turret with a new coat of paint that I like a lot more from the green before, as well as the connector for the battle system moved over into the loaders hatch.

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