Finney Pannier Tank Radio Control/Battery
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 2:06 pm
Hi folks,
I've been working on this Finney Pannier tank for the last few weeks. It's such a lovely kit. For this project I wanted to try out another of the 4V Mabuchi motors, this one the N10. It's tiny, and just needed the shaft to be sleeved with a brass tube and it fitted nicely to a High Level gearbox, bolt holes in the correct place, already tapped M1.4. So, a few photos and a video...
The kit, probably familiar to a few of you:
Simple CSB set-up using High Level hornblocks and carriers:
Mabuchi N10 motor and gearbox:
The chassis is designed to power the rear axle, but I prefer to power the centre one, so I made some modifications to the centre chassis spacer to accommodate the motor:
The basic set-up with one of my old 14430 750mAh batteries:
Then the new 10440 1000mAh batteries arrived amid much excitement:
The centre 10440 has been fitted with a protection circuit, on the right is the 14430. The size doesn't look that different, but it's actually much smaller and easier to fit (and remove), and of course has 1/3 more capacity:
Body almost done...
Basic chassis set-up:
Power and R/C. I'm using DT RX63 from Micron Radio Control, but could just as easily be Protocab or equivalent, if they'll fit:
Pretty much done aside from chassis and cab detailing and some other bits and pieces:
And finally, a little Youtube video of it running up and down my test track:
Runs nice and smoothly, so far so good. I need to add some weight and see what it'll pull. And then see what running time I can get from that battery, but I'm thinking it should be around 8 hours...
Cheers, Nick
I've been working on this Finney Pannier tank for the last few weeks. It's such a lovely kit. For this project I wanted to try out another of the 4V Mabuchi motors, this one the N10. It's tiny, and just needed the shaft to be sleeved with a brass tube and it fitted nicely to a High Level gearbox, bolt holes in the correct place, already tapped M1.4. So, a few photos and a video...
The kit, probably familiar to a few of you:
Simple CSB set-up using High Level hornblocks and carriers:
Mabuchi N10 motor and gearbox:
The chassis is designed to power the rear axle, but I prefer to power the centre one, so I made some modifications to the centre chassis spacer to accommodate the motor:
The basic set-up with one of my old 14430 750mAh batteries:
Then the new 10440 1000mAh batteries arrived amid much excitement:
The centre 10440 has been fitted with a protection circuit, on the right is the 14430. The size doesn't look that different, but it's actually much smaller and easier to fit (and remove), and of course has 1/3 more capacity:
Body almost done...
Basic chassis set-up:
Power and R/C. I'm using DT RX63 from Micron Radio Control, but could just as easily be Protocab or equivalent, if they'll fit:
Pretty much done aside from chassis and cab detailing and some other bits and pieces:
And finally, a little Youtube video of it running up and down my test track:
Runs nice and smoothly, so far so good. I need to add some weight and see what it'll pull. And then see what running time I can get from that battery, but I'm thinking it should be around 8 hours...
Cheers, Nick