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Old 09-02-18, 22:15
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and finally.

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Old 08-03-18, 19:05
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I have at last, managed to fabricate the suspension arm travel stops / bump stops and attached them to the chassis. It seemed to take ages to complete these items but we have been in a perma frost for a week, that seemed like a month, snowed in and the workshop was frozen up, thats my excuse anyway. They are not perfect but as near as I could get them, the grey one is from the Bovington tank museums PZ2.

For my next trick I am going to make the track return rollers, now that will be fun.

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Old 08-03-18, 23:01
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That is very, very, impressive work and fabrication you are doing
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Old 08-03-18, 23:38
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Thanks james, very kind of you. I am just doing something that i enjoy.

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1967 Land Rover series 2A LWB
1986 Land Rover series 3 SWB
1938 DKW SB200
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1944 VW Kubelwagen KDF82
1942 Steyr 1500A
1944 Morris C8A
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Jonathan keep on doing what you do as you are doing some amazing fabrication. I find it a joy to see folk take on a project like yours or some over the top restoration and work their magic to achieve a successful build.
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Old 13-03-18, 20:24
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Track return roller shafts, manufactured and bolted in place.

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1967 Land Rover series 2A LWB
1986 Land Rover series 3 SWB
1938 DKW SB200
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1944 VW Kubelwagen KDF82
1942 Steyr 1500A
1944 Morris C8A
1943 Chevrolet CMP8A HUP?
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Old 01-04-18, 22:22
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I have been busy making the track return roller hubs. As usual, I have been using materials that are locally available, rather than ordering specific sized materials, so a little bit of adaption is required. The main hub starts as a piece of tube cut and machined to length, then a flange is welded in each end of the tube and then set on the lathe so that the rings can be bored out to suit the centre bearing housing. This bearing housing is then welded in place. A ring is then welded on to the outside of one end of the tube for two reasons. Firstly to give the impression that the material is thicker and closer to the originals dimensions and secondly to give the polyurethane tyres something to bond to when I cast them in place. This assembly is the reset on the lathe and bored out to the bearing diameter size and correct internal lengths. A separate ring is then welded on to the opposite end of the hub, for the same reasons as the first. Reset on the lathe and then again faced to the correct lengths. Each time the hub is reset in the lathe, for each operation, it has to be adjusted so that the assembly rotates true to within 0.02mm, so you can see its a time consuming process.
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1942 Steyr 1500A
1944 Morris C8A
1943 Chevrolet CMP8A HUP?
194? Bedford QL
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