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No, that was filmed awhile back after I finished a bunch of mods to it.Edit: Wait, did you film the video just for that reply?
You probably could, but the real problem if you notice, the front upper arm isn't much of a triangle. It is just a straight bar basically. They would be better off if they had just used a turnbuckle there. But even then, the slop in the lower arms would still allow it to flop about.Could you add some little metal flanged collar pieces or shims to fix it?
It's just an all around sh!tty design that doesn't even hold up to toy grade standards, and to alleviate the problem would require more fabrication than I care to do at this time. I just got frustrated with the whole build after seeing that.
The original design using stock components had the arms/hinge pins as one complete plastic part with the pins. Those pins would just be rotating in holes embossed into the chassis and a piece that bolts to the diff cover, with grease as the only protection between plastic wearing out plastic. Really, really, really, really (continue really's for a couple miles) dumb design.
Sitting here thinking about this more, and I bet what happened was back in the 80's, Tamiya probably had guys with no engineering degrees designing their stuff. Just avid hobbyists with an eye for things. They came out with legends such as the Hornet, the Grasshopper, the Frog, the Bruiser, etc. Then comes retirement age and they were replaced by some guys who went to school for engineering at one of those blankets thrown down in an alleyway with everyone sitting on the blanket listening to some Billy Mays kinda guy teaching them product design
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