Chassis
The plywood parts of the Solar House kit turned out to be very handy as a support for the motor and gearbox..With a bit cutting and filing all fits nicely. This base is 72,5 mm square. I will use a similar part and a sheet of balsa wood that I have lying around to expand the chassis. It will become somewhere between 130 or 150 mm in lenght, just what looks fine and runs well.I just use plastic LGB wheels while I had those left over and to keep it as leight as possible.
Also made an axle mount out of styrene sheets. Again all very basic and light weight.
A little video of the test run which was made without the solar panel. It was powered by a normal 1,2 Volt battery for testing (I could not discover how much the capacity of this battery was).
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