Reproduction UC Track availability?

[RichardT10829]

50 quid says it was Johns carrier, and a further 20 says it was Kevin that has snaffled it

i dont know anywhere that is doing repro track yet, I contacted Staman a while ago to see if they would do it, they have done repro tracks for Stuarts and Shermans etc etc, along with the ruberised copies for the roads.

Martyn and I have both priced up sets to be cast and machined / pinned and based on enough to make a new full set you are looking at circa 4 - 9K best case scenario OUCH ! bearing in mind the rate of wear even for us using them on low hours its a big pill to swallow. there are sets about and second hand track is fairly affordable unless it is being held captive by MV pirates

the theory is that if there is enough of us to bulk buy reprowise, it gets cheaper, problem is most folks tend to try and "track" down (forgive the pun) NOS sets or second hand sets of links.

be very carefull when buying either as i have know folk try to pass off NOS sets when they were jiggered used sets, yes they had the correct amount of links, but they were all shot........

if your in Lincoln and into carriers you need to know Martyn Tasker, a great lad who is clued up on these beasts, i have no doubt you know him though

other carrier owners in the UK include, Kevin Powles (Suffolk),Shaun Hindle (suffolkish) Barry (london), Neil Ashley, Ron Pier, Nick (Yorkshire), Nigel Watson (Dundee), and Me (Newcastle) there are others but my absent mindedness strikes again... so sorry lads if i have missed you.

if you contact these folk they will keep you right on what to look out for etc, carriers do come up for sale and sometimes our brothers in Canada and Australia allow us to buy some back

finally when you do get a carrier you can paint her up in the Lincolns colours who formed part of 138bde 46th Div and were nortorious during Op Avalanche in Italy during ww2