Tigers weight

Dale jordan · Post by **Dale jordan** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:55 am

Can someone tell me the weight of a tiger with motion pack and sound installed ?? . I think the early tiger when shipped to me . It's weight was around 135 kg I'm not sore how much the motion pack weighs . Has anyone taken their tiger over a weigh bridge ?? I think on the old forum this was talked about ... Dale

Adrian Harris · Post by **Adrian Harris** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:01 pm

Dale,

I've had a look on the old forum but can't find any postings which give a definitive weight.

I would guess Gill has to give UPS an accurate weight for shipping, so may be able to tot up the weight of all packages that make up a fully loaded Tiger.

You could drive your Tiger up onto two sets of bathroom scales, one under each track, and then add the weights together

Adrian.

David Pengelly · Post by **David Pengelly** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:45 pm

My Tiger 1 had 2 big 12volt x 28amp hr batteries and all the option packs and weighed around 170 kilo,s

Roland Mann · Post by **Roland Mann** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:05 pm

Hi Dale,

as Adrian told you, best is to use two bathroom scales. I have done similar
with one bathroom scale and using a bar with correct distance. First checked the front and than rear weight. Not yet completely ready but all options encluded it gave 58 kg for the front and 68 kg for the rear. As expected the rear is much heavier because of my two 21 Ah batteries.

Not a rule for other Tigers. My extensiv use of aluminium parts replacing white metal reduced the overall weight by at least 10 kg. When completed I guess the total will be around 128 kg.

Just my little weight to your question - Roland

Allan Richards · Post by **Allan Richards** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:27 pm

Dale,

My Tiger at fighting weight with 22 A/Hr batteries is 365lbs, but I have put some effort into lightening the turret and the gun mantle but have not fitted Aluminium decks etc.

Chang · Post by **Chang** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:46 pm

Hi,
Just curiosity:

With bigger/heavier batteries and extra option parts, do people need to upgrade those torsion bars at rear half (or even the whole) of the chassis?

Have anyone had competited with other brand non-metal Tiger 1 on speed/cross-country ability before?

Rick Jensen · Post by **Rick Jensen** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:54 am

Hi Dale

Well the long awaited result of my Tiger is now to hand. Its official weight with ALL options plus my bearing/wheel modifications is 172.7 kilograms with the 12volt 28 amp hour batteries and not the earlier reported figure of 207 kilograms we spoke about. I was down at tool teck on Friday and had them re-weigh my Tiger......peace at last.

Rick

Chang · Post by **Chang** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:22 am

Hi Rick,
Thanks for the info about the Tiger 1's weight. That's really heavy!
With it's extra kgs than the standard one, how is it's mobility? Any modification made on the torsion bars system?
Regards,
Lerh Chang

Rick Jensen · Post by **Rick Jensen** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:55 am

G'day Chiang

The Tigers mobility and capability is not affected by the additional 18 KLGs' of the bigger batteries. The original Tiger motors supplied have more than enough torque to handle the additional weight of the batteries and mods I have done. Obviously, I am unable to compare the Tigers performance with another Tiger at this stage as Dale has sold his tank and I am working to get Adrians up and running so as we can do some comparisons. In a nut shell my Tiger has not collapsed on to its rear end, or any other sector for that matter, as has been reported by other owners.
I have been running my Tiger now for about 5 months and it is still on the original settings I made back then. The other benefit is the extended running time derived from the bigger ampere batteries, that really adds to the fun of these big tanks.................more play time.

Best regards

Rick

Chang · Post by **Chang** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:26 am

G'day Rick, Thanks again for the info.
From my experience, just like the real thing, the scaled model tank always has a lot of problems---unless operated and maintenanced by good hands. I am sure this is the situation of your Tiger, and it certainly pays you back for having so much of fun. It also gives me more confidence that the yet-coming Kingtiger will be as good as the Tiger.
How is the Jagdpanther now? Have you purchased all of the option parts already? With the downward exchange rate, the later we pay, the more it will cost. It's bad, isn't it?
Keep in touch!
Regards,
Lerh Chang

Allan Richards · Post by **Allan Richards** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:06 pm

I would say that weight is a bit of a double edged sword. On the one hand the lighter the tank is the better its performance will be in terms of battery life, general manoeverability and less wear and tear. Also transportation and general fetching and carrying is easier. The down side of light weight is lack of grip on slopes and also lack of ground churning when slewing around giving a general lack of realism. Look at some of the you tube films of 1/16th tanks, the way the bounce over the ground and can almost spin around like a top. The Armortek motors are certainly powerfull enough to cope. I know that Armortek's policy is to use prototypical thicknesses of metal but I would like to do an exercise of really trimming down the weight to see how the model would perform.

Dale jordan · Post by **Dale jordan** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:57 pm

Here is a photo of my tiger 1 on the scales , with motion pack and sound plus two 22 amp 12 v batteries . It weight is 123 KG . with the batteries out it comes back to 110.KG . I have replaced most of the steel with alloy plus not having the fiflel cleaners etc. . That saves around 9.KG . The model runs realy nice and very smooth .. Dale

Dale jordan · Post by **Dale jordan** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:58 pm

It looks like Roland and I , are on the same tack .... David and Rick are similar with theirs ... Dale

Chang · Post by **Chang** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:16 am

Does anyone wonder why and how the big different weight (about 50kg!) happened? I mean the only different equipment possible is the battery(-ies), and it's difference maybe less than 10kg only. Where the rest of kgs came from?

David Pengelly · Post by **David Pengelly** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:57 pm

My tiger 1 was No 99 of the original 200 run batch , there is another early tiger 1 in my area , not sure of the production number , but it has a single battery and weighs around 12 kilo,s less then mine .
I found the turret to be very heavy on mine and it does look like the thickness is over scale .