Finished the exhaust components and did a trial fit.
Added the lifting pins and milled the semicircular cutout at the bottom for the drain.
Remade the top cover with 45mm diameter. Used smaller head bolts and also experimented with the lock washers using brass washers. Remade the supports for the top cover from 3.5mm brass rod. Male thread at the bottom and female thread at the top.
Added square stand-offs for the exhaust heat shields. I used the same square stand-offs which are also used for the side skirts.
As new holes need to be drilled for the jack brackets I thought I would make a template for the holes on a piece of ply.
Next finished the engine main access panel.
Finished the radiator fan grilles and mating access panels.
Temporarily bolted all the engine deck bits and pieces together to the deck. At least now I can keep them together.
Managed to get my first ever R/C setup to work. I wanted a very basic setup just to test the tracks and running gear. So I wanted to use the motion control module only for now. Problem was that I could not find a diagram (or I missed it) for using just the receiver, motion control module and the two motors. With some help I managed to successfully bench test the setup using a power supply.
I am using a Spektrum DX8 transmitter with Spektrum AR8010T 8 channel receiver which came with an additional external receiver. At this stage I was using the Throttle and the Elevator channels to control the motors.
part 12 here Part 14 here
