HL T72 Problems

[Rubicon99]

Look at Stanlley's website for stiffeners. RCTANKLEGION-youtube. He has a whole tutorial just for this tank. Looks like it flexes a lot. You could probably source all the aluminum yourself. He as custom versions for other tanks that look very cool and are drop in almost.

Good to hear Toucan is taking care of you. They always have for me.👍👍

Any “flexing” **(see below paragraph) that might occur does NOT effect the reliability of the T72/90 tank and does NOT cause track loss issues. I have four T72/T90s(and have built several others) with all metal suspension, road wheels, tracks, 390 motors, very heavy and large 9.6v NIMH 7000mah batteries and additional internal balancing weights. So needles to say they are rather heavy tanks (three to four times the weight vs stock), MANY times more powerful and faster. Even as hard as I drive and abuse them there has never been an issue caused by hull flexing. Heck I even run them with just four hull screws (two front / two rear) and that has proven sufficient.

**Hull flexing is far more of a concern for those tanks that are using magnets to hold the hulls together. They loss all the “unibody” effect of being screwed together. So unless you are going to be using all magnets to hold the hulls together you are better served saving time and money forgoing installing hull bracings.

[dai phan]

Hi all,

I will be working on putting back everything as TH had sent me a lower and upper hull 4 years ago. I also had ordered the 7.0 board. Will keep you updated with pictures. Dai