Armour Dreams

[Jonathan Moore]

progress, progress. Bending the radius on the nose of the hull was fun lots of leverage and heat, which was most welcome on a cold day. I gave it a coat of red primer to keep the surface rust at bay.

[Jonathan Moore]

All ten suspension arms are now complete, apart from the wheel and locating arms which is my next job on the lathe.

Oh and I made a chocolate cake.

Jon

[David Dunlop]

Is the cake still there???

David

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

Is the cake still there???

David

I bet the chocolate lab got it.

[Jonathan Moore]

The dog didn't stand a chance, my son had most of it. Just a tip for all those making such a cake, if you put the chocolate eggs on when the topping chocolate is still warm, the inside goo of the egg dribbles over the top and down the sides of the cake. There's lovely.

Jon

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Moore

The dog didn't stand a chance, my son had most of it. Just a tip for all those making such a cake, if you put the chocolate eggs on when the topping chocolate is still warm, the inside goo of the egg dribbles over the top and down the sides of the cake. There's lovely.

Jon

I think your description of the dribbling goo and its effect is a little too graphic for those of us still under 18 years of age...

Still, seamlessly moving from tank bogie suspension arms to chocolate cake does demonstrate a certain diversity in skill sets!!

[Jonathan Moore]

A mans got to eat and my wife doesn't like cooking so needs must when the devil drives.

Although I had drawn the suspension arm location shafts on CAD, I decided that I would make a set just to make sure that some plonker, that,s me, hadn't cocked up. Well it turns out that I hadn't. The outer bearing housing retainer has an oil seal pressed in to stop the ingress of dirt. Then there's the complete set, bearing housing retainer, shaft, bearings, the relevant spacers and finally, the complete set installed in the hull. The hole in the end of the shaft is for a greasing point that I have to make, see below. I am not going to weld the arm to the shaft until I make the wheel axles and I don't think that I will do that until I have made a wheel. Only 9 more sets to make.