As I was building this, I detoured to build your Tiger 6x6. I started with the dual transmissions and before I knew it I was building Tiger lol. I had to try not to be lazy and try something new. Your design skills are amazing...the compact design, the unsprung self balancing front, everything is so thoughtfully laid out. I actually tried to follow your advice from the wildcat video and shooting for a good power to weight ratio but I still built a nearly 3kg monster. Lol
I kinda had to settle on front wheel steering. I had the idea for the self balancing rear with large turntables after tinkering with the design of 42070. The small turntables were frustrating me so I literally started with large turntables and 7x11 frames, then built the entire thing from that. The problem with this as the starting point is that it relies the driveshaft going through the center of the turntable. That pretty much ruled out left/right drivelines (at least for my current design skills)
@@shroomzzz Thanks...if I'm understanding correctly, a large turntable would have allowed you to steer by rotating all 4 back wheels, right? If so, then wouldn't that have caused either those 4 wheels to skid sideways, or the front wheels to skid sideways when turning? That's what happened to the walker chariot I built last year. Originally I tried steering it like an actual chariot by changing the angle between the walker and the chariot, but then either the wheels or the legs got pushed sideways. I was able to eliminate most of this sideways motion/friction by simply steering by rotated the wheels in-place like cars are steered, and like you've done here, right? Super cool builds!
@@diywalkers7898 Actually, to move something of this size I stepped up the whole design from small frames/turntables to large frames/turntables. I wanted something heavy duty to balance the rear two axles and came up with this idea freeimage.host/i/yB9tb1 It's very durable, but the drawback is that the driveline throughout the whole vehicle has to pass through a single hole--centered in the middle of each turntable (magenta frame in the pic) so that the axles pivot around the active driveline. Anything in front of, or aft of my motors is driven by a single driveline. It can limit the design somewhat. By contrast, Zerobricks' Tiger 6x6 ruclips.net/video/m6S6vHOr6Is/видео.html implements tank steering via two drivelines (left and right). Hope this help a bit. Sorry I'm crummy at explaining it. Lemme know if you still have questions.
I really like the gearing you used for centering the rear pendular axles, well done!
As I was building this, I detoured to build your Tiger 6x6. I started with the dual transmissions and before I knew it I was building Tiger lol. I had to try not to be lazy and try something new. Your design skills are amazing...the compact design, the unsprung self balancing front, everything is so thoughtfully laid out. I actually tried to follow your advice from the wildcat video and shooting for a good power to weight ratio but I still built a nearly 3kg monster. Lol
That's awesome Michael! Does front wheel steering perform better than tank-style steering?
I kinda had to settle on front wheel steering. I had the idea for the self balancing rear with large turntables after tinkering with the design of 42070. The small turntables were frustrating me so I literally started with large turntables and 7x11 frames, then built the entire thing from that. The problem with this as the starting point is that it relies the driveshaft going through the center of the turntable. That pretty much ruled out left/right drivelines (at least for my current design skills)
@diywalkers7898 not sure if you saw one of my other bids but you may recognize the design :-) ruclips.net/video/nINkgRdMXfI/видео.html
@@shroomzzz Thanks...if I'm understanding correctly, a large turntable would have allowed you to steer by rotating all 4 back wheels, right? If so, then wouldn't that have caused either those 4 wheels to skid sideways, or the front wheels to skid sideways when turning? That's what happened to the walker chariot I built last year. Originally I tried steering it like an actual chariot by changing the angle between the walker and the chariot, but then either the wheels or the legs got pushed sideways. I was able to eliminate most of this sideways motion/friction by simply steering by rotated the wheels in-place like cars are steered, and like you've done here, right?
Super cool builds!
@@diywalkers7898 Actually, to move something of this size I stepped up the whole design from small frames/turntables to large frames/turntables. I wanted something heavy duty to balance the rear two axles and came up with this idea freeimage.host/i/yB9tb1 It's very durable, but the drawback is that the driveline throughout the whole vehicle has to pass through a single hole--centered in the middle of each turntable (magenta frame in the pic) so that the axles pivot around the active driveline. Anything in front of, or aft of my motors is driven by a single driveline. It can limit the design somewhat. By contrast, Zerobricks' Tiger 6x6 ruclips.net/video/m6S6vHOr6Is/видео.html implements tank steering via two drivelines (left and right). Hope this help a bit. Sorry I'm crummy at explaining it. Lemme know if you still have questions.
@@shroomzzz that's great, thanks for explaining!
I like your style, big and powerfull 👻
I'm flattered! Speaking of power, I've been checking out your ripsaw. I just happen to have 6 buggy motors laying around... Maybe over the holidays!
@@shroomzzz thanks mate, i will be flattered a lot if you do that ❤️🙏
It is my favourite moc.
now make a 2nd one and use them as roller skates lmao
On it! (j/k)