Re: Cardboard Armour (Don't tell Jon)

Brian Burger wrote:
> 
> ...
> On the subject of wheeled vehicles, does anyone have any ideas for
making
> wheels? I'd like to make a wheeled APC and various other wheeled
vehicles,
> but lack of good wheels is getting in the way. Wooden dowelling,
maybe?
> Cut disks of the right thickness from dowel of the right diameter,
then
> file tread patterns in and use a drill or something to get a sort of
hub?

For this, I'd actually suggest just going to a hobby shop and buying a
bunch of wheels.  They're cheap enough to justify the cost vs time
tradeoff.  

If I was going to make my own wheels, I'd build one out of putty and a
dowel and then cast it in resin.  You could easily make a one-piece mold
for a wheel (similar to what GZG does on the SF-25 range).  It would be
flat on one side, but that just makes it easier to attah to the hull.

Tom 

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Thomas Pope
Human Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
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