Armour Dreams

[Jonathan Moore]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

Awesome, Jon!
You must be quite pleased with the power train progress to this point.

I am David, I now have to concentrate on the drive wheel and sprocket both of which are going to be a challenge, however I think the sprocket, being 25mm thick, is beyond my cutting capacity so I will have to find a company to produce it for me.

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

.... you look so much younger!!!!!
The lad seemed to be enjoying himself.......
Very nice work Jon.......

Bob, I sometimes wish it was me but then again...….

Toby, my youngest, was brought up having to share Dads eccentricities and some of it has rubbed off, he's currently restoring a very rusty 1964? New Holland bailer. It was his first time at the controls and he's dreaming of the future or maybe the past.

Thanks for your support,

Jon

[Tim Bell]

Do you have a picture of the morse key which goes on that holder.

Asking purely because I have a WW2 German Morse key somewhere mounted on a metal plate... I had assumed it was an amateur mod post ww2... but perhaps it is for this holder!

If I find the morse key, I will post a pic.

Exceptional work - you have me wondering what you would have created if you had been working as a Tank designer in the 1940s.

Cheers

Tim

[Jonathan Moore]

Originally Posted by Tim Bell

Do you have a picture of the morse key which goes on that holder.

Asking purely because I have a WW2 German Morse key somewhere mounted on a metal plate... I had assumed it was an amateur mod post ww2... but perhaps it is for this holder!

If I find the morse key, I will post a pic.

Exceptional work - you have me wondering what you would have created if you had been working as a Tank designer in the 1940s.

Cheers

Tim

Morning Tim,

This is the little devil but in this picture it has it's removable rubber base attached.

Jon

[Jonathan Moore]

Evening All,

I have started fabricating the track guards, they are not as straight forward as one would think and as I haven't got the machinery neccassery to bend steel angle there is a lot of fabricating to do. The retaining brackets are a multitude of different angles and took quite a bit of research but I think that they are some where near. I haven't had any luck finding the correct steel for the guards at a sensible price, so at present I am just going to use modern diamond tread plate but I am making them in such a fashion that if some plate in the correct pattern does become available, it won't take much to change them.

[Jonathan Moore]

It took ages to find a horn of the correct diameter and I thought the chrome effect would look quite flashy in a combat situation. The piece of tube sticking out is a stop for the drivers hatch and will have a rubber bung in the end when I have made it.

Jon

[Jonathan Moore]

Evening All,

All of a sudden it has grown and made, what would appear to be, a massive leap forward. The remainder of the resin has arrived, so I can now cast the tyres on the road wheels. Next job is to get the upper hull in place and start fabricating the engine deck.

Jon

[Petr Brezina]

What a cute little vehicle!

[Jonathan Moore]

Afternoon,

The first road wheel out of the mould.

Jon

[David Dunlop]

Looking good, Jon.

Any idea what it weighs in at? Once they are all cured and on the tank, it should make moving it about a lot easier.

David

[Jonathan Moore]

Evening David,

They weigh roughly 20kg each.

Jon

[jack neville]

Jonathan what is the resin material you are using?

[Jonathan Moore]

Morning Jack,

It's a high abrasion polyurethane casting resin.

Jon