Reproduction UC Track availability?

[George McKenzie]

I was just at my friends place and he has all his trackpads drilled over size .Made up oversize pins from cold rolled steel and harden them about 25ooo and is now assembling them If you harden them all the way they will brake NOTE if you take the pins out be sure to save the cast washers that will be put on the new pins .If you turn the sprocket backwards they will be like new unless they are badly worn .Friend Jim is going to rebuild a few sprockets .He does great work .There are two types of sprockets .One has a flange on each side ,the newer ones are flat on the sides from the top to bottom It will be almost impossible to get some one to do this unless you have a big checkbook

[colin jones]

Hi George, it is not very expensive to get new sprockets profile cut then case hardened. You just need to put it on CAD for them. I would estimate around $500 a pair. To save on material you could also segment them in Halves or thirds. That would save a lot of waste from the centre.
Colin!

[George McKenzie]

Good sujestion I have done Caterpillar crawler tractors under carriage and they had sections to replace the old ones. With so much interest in these carriers I can see where someone will be making them

[RichardT10829]

George your right, this issue is clearly in the back of all our minds, as time goes on less and less usable sections of track will be obtainable, those that are will be held ransome by the few that get theyre hands on them. it would be good if we could trace factory workers from the period who could go through the production process step by step. I need to sleep with someone at Staman methinks get them to make a production run of tracks..

[George McKenzie]

Before I got a carrier I was offerd a new set of tracks and wheels for $500

[ron]

Not wishing to hi jack this thread, but does any of our aussie members have any original Army specs for the material used in the track links?there must have been specs set out somewhere I have someone lined up to cast them and I see no problem in doing the machining for the holes, we will have to make up a jig to ensure that every hole is reamed the same, we dont want to use any old metal but want to do it the way that they were made, we have some very clever people on this forum,and I reckon someone out there would beable to find the original specs in Canberra or elsewhere, I do realise that I can get a metalurgic test done but it would be much easier to see the original specs,
Lets see if we can get this thing done here, Regards Ron

[ron]

Just have a look at this pic, one link at a time and the job is done