Reproduction UC Track availability?

[Snowy]

Marc's comment about soft track pins seems to hold true. I know someone who has a Bombardier snowmobile (coincidentally almost exactly like the military one in another thread here) who uses soft iron bolts as the pins through the piano hinges in the the track belts. Just the cheap hardware store type used in woodworking projects, the bolt shank being long enough to pass through the hinge. The rationale is the bolts wear more quickly than the harder-to-replace hinge part, and are commonly available. As far as I am aware the Bombardier is used regularly as as work vehicle carrying passengers every winter so there must be some merit to it.

Steve.

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Originally Posted by Snowy

Marc's comment about soft track pins seems to hold true. I know someone who has a Bombardier snowmobile (coincidentally almost exactly like the military one in another thread here) who uses soft iron bolts as the pins through the piano hinges in the the track belts. ...

Steve.

Bombardier is an active Canadian company, with many more parts and divisions than just snowmachines. If you contact them in Valcourt, Quebec (it is the one business in that town), and politely ask about drawings or steel specifications for some of their very old equipment, you never know what luck you might have. I see some of their crawler vehicles regularly used to lug small drill derricks and rock drills around, so that part of the entreprise is still functioning.