Sexton 1900 restoration

[Jesse Browning]

Bryan; Very nice. Jesse.

[Jesse Browning]

Just about ready for the engine. Unfortunately, the engine is not ready. We should get the remainder of the parts for the engine on Monday. Jesse.

[strat1]

Jesse

Looking good .

Anthony

[Jesse Browning]

May be running this week. There is still one bad cylinder. It was dropped somewhere along the way, and needs to be welded. Jesse.

[Ganmain Tony]

Jesse,

We're in awe here of your work, even if we are down under.

I was wondering if you could post a pic with you standing next to the engine just to get some appreciation of the scale & size of the stuff you're working on.

Enjoying the thread mate - mind blowing resto job

As one the other fellah's said earlier.....cant wait to here it fire up. Smoke, flames, should be awesome!!!!

[cantankrs]

The -C4 cylinders sure look different to the -EC2 and -C1's that were in many of the Lee's/Grant's.

Also back in an earlier post I see the suspension gudgeon's drop down once the caps have been removed in that style of suspension bogie - a significant improvement regarding serviceablility compared to the early US M3 Medium tank bogies.

Great work Jesse!

Regards

Alex

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by cantankrs

The -C4 cylinders sure look different to the -EC2 and -C1's that were in many of the Lee's/Grant's.

Also back in an earlier post I see the suspension gudgeon's drop down once the caps have been removed in that style of suspension bogie - a significant improvement regarding serviceablility compared to the early US M3 Medium tank bogies.

Great work Jesse!

Regards

Alex

translation please

[cantankrs]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

translation please

Terry,

Early in this thread is a RHS pic of Jesse's Sexton. It shows track and roadwheels off and suspension units dismantled but with the core suspension housings or stations still bolted to the hull. They appear to have been based on roughly mid-production Sherman design - or maybe they weren't. But on the underside of the stations are caps that retain the suspension arm gudgeon pins to the station housing. So these caps can be undone and levered downward off the bottom (after the volute springs have been compressed first!) presumably allowing the gudgeons still through the suspension arms to be knocked downward and out, followed by the springs and spring base. Maybe Jesse needs to verify or correct what I've written about that.

Whereas on the M3 Medium tanks instead of being capped on the underside of the station, they had a cotter bolt that ran through a fore-and-aft hole. Maybe in service there wasn't a huge difference if they were looked after but 60 years later there is considerable difficulty getting the old units apart. The whole unit has to be placed in a hydraulic press of around 100ton capacity. Maybe Jesse only had to place the suspension arms with pin in a press. I may be wrong

The Australian Army seemed to have replaced many if not all of the original suspension units with something similar to this later style, on the twin diesel M3 Mediums that they retained in service postwar.

Regards

Alex