Combat Digi-Q Insides

[Ply]

Has anyone else dissassembled their tank(s) yet?

I got tired of the noisy gearboxes and took my panther apart to see what I could do. 2 squirts of WD40 later (1 to each gearbox) and the tank is MUCH quieter. Just be careful not to get it on the mainboard (dunno about conductivity of WD40, but I'm pretty sure it does), or the tread drivers (unless you don't want to go anywhere =).

The little screws underneath the treads were a bit of a pain, but I was able to get a little standard screwdriver (inky-dinky one for glasses repair and such) in there and got the screw out. More importantly, I was able to get it back in, using some needlenose and the same little screwdriver (angle is a little funny, but it's pretty easy if you're careful).

If anyone's interested, I can post pix of the insides.

Also noticed something wierd about the underside of the turret. It's actually geared, and there's what looks like kind of a mount point and opening where a geared motor could go at some point? Don't know if this was a "well we tried but it didn't work..why pay extra to re-mold w/o the hole?" or a "maybe in the future we'll motorize the turret" kinda thing. There's no room for a turret motor given the current setup cuz the batteries are in the way.

Ply