VICKERS MK6B's resto

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by colin jones

But I'm still happy with my progress.

Understatement?

[colin jones]

I have now had the gears in and checked for clearance and all is good.

[colin jones]

I also put the side bearing housing and cross shaft for a test fit and that too is good and the bevel gears appear to mesh correctly.

[colin jones]

Well that's it!! i've welded the bottom on so I hope I don't need to do anything else in there or I'll be cutting a hole . Centre lines all lines up, the gears all mesh well and I can turn the main shaft and get the gears to respond so that's a plus. One of the bearing housings in the centre must have got a little bit too hot so I will have to do a bit of mods with my die grinder but no biggy. The outside wing parts are next then the holes and tapping.

[super dave]

Again WOW, I think that only you could have done such a feat as to manufacture a complicated transmission housing

[Russ Gregg]

A hundred years from now this will change hands of the rarest of all Vickers Mk6B's, the only one with the steel gearbox upgrade. There will be all sorts of speculation over whether it was a factory prototype or done as a training exercise for the motor pool etc. Nobody will guess clever Aussie in a well equipped shed.

[Mike Cecil]

....Unless Colin does what Museums routinely do and stamps into it the date made and by who, thus clearly indicating it as a part manufactured during restoration.

It is a common 'problem' with restorations particularly where records can be lost or mislaid: just what is an original part and what is substituted from another source. Without clear indicators such as the stamping mentioned, it can lead to all sorts of speculation and assumptions.

Mike