For Sale: Expressions of interest, universal carrier track

[Alex van de Wetering]

Originally Posted by Tim Bell

Perhaps if you hold the camera upside down when you take the image it may then display the correct way up when you post to the forum?

I think you have to keep the camera the correct way up, but put yourself upside down......
One of the biggest mysteries of today! Pictures showing up upside down, rotated 90 degrees.....selfies sometimes mirrored, sometimes not. pictures shpwing correct way up on your phone or camera.....but upside down in your picture viewer program....argghhh..

Richard, the tracks look excellent! Well done.

Alex

[Lynn Eades]

Something to do with the on going war between Apple and Google, and that's probably why the I phone 13 doesn't have google.

[Paul Singleton]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

I think you have to keep the camera the correct way up, but put yourself upside down......
One of the biggest mysteries of today! Pictures showing up upside down, rotated 90 degrees.....selfies sometimes mirrored, sometimes not. pictures shpwing correct way up on your phone or camera.....but upside down in your picture viewer program....argghhh..

Richard, the tracks look excellent! Well done.

Alex

I also have trouble with Apple pictures on this forum. The pictures were rotated 90 degrees when I post them, but if I click on the picture and open it in a new window it’s the right way up. It doesn’t make sense.

[Mike Gurr]

I invariably take photos on my 'I' phone but always save them onto my laptop through a hardwire connection, rotate and save as necessary and only then use them for the forum, always posting them from my laptop. Never had a problem with doing it this way! Don't attempt to understand the technicalities but it seems to work.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

I lifted these pictures from Richie’s webpage. Hope this settles the picture orientation debate

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[RichardT10829]

Thanks Hanno

[RichardT10829]

Well we ran some of the track mixed into a worn set on worn sprockets, I was happy with the results, the track meshes correctly !!

Out of the five sets available there is one left, once it is claimed I can proceed with the production run, if nobody is interested I may buy it myself.

[Lynn Eades]

A joy to see!, Richard.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

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You have to admit that those are very pretty little castings. Almost too good to throw on the ground and drive over.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Awesome work Richie....again, well done

[RichardT10829]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

You have to admit that those are very pretty little castings. Almost too good to throw on the ground and drive over.

Yes they are finished somewhat nicer than the war time stuff, the links are investment casted then vacuum quenched in order to meet the strict Brinnel hardness scores.

In the end, due to steel costs I couldn’t supply pins at a sensible price, those who were interested were all given options to proceed or not, I am glad they chose to proceed and sort their own pins as it means we were able to do something that hadn’t really been done since the 40’s.

I have supplied my data on pin specs to everyone concerned so they can go and make their own. I can also provide the tooling to press the heads into pins if required.

I know Paul S from the UK is tooling up to make vast quantities of pins, so far as I know he has the tooling setup but is verifying metallurgy before he goes into production…..so there is another box ticked for us all.


I did make some interesting finds on the pin front surrounding pin diameters, to be honest, the whole track link project has been an eye opener on what was made, how it was made during different periods of the war.