Armour Dreams

[Niels V]

https://hmvf.co.uk/topic/35947-panze...e/23/#comments jon had taken a break but he is back here

[Darrell Zinck]

Hi Niels

Thank you for that.

Glad to see he is OK and here's to hoping he updates this thread as well.

regards
Darrell

[David Dunlop]

Two different surnames???


David

[Jonathan Moore]

Evening All,

Remember me, no i didn't think so. I decided that I should update this thread, so here goes.

I have had the sprockets cut and they now need to be machined. All the metal for the sprocket mounting hubs

has been cut and the centers machined to suit the final drive, I just need to weld it all together, machine the outer diameter and drill the sprocket mounting holes.

[Jonathan Moore]

Because of the limitation on the amount of pictures that we can post at one time I am going to have to drag it out a bit so sorry in advance.

I have made and fitted drives and radio operators seat cushions.

[Jonathan Moore]

If we go back to my last post, I was working on the drivers vision optics.
I have now made the vision tubes, I don't know what the originals looked like but this is my version.
It's a bit hard to get a picture looking through them but they do work. However at normal magnification you can see bugger all, I don't think that the originals 1.25X would make much difference.

[Jonathan Moore]

On the Tubes there is a little boss that locates in to a slot in main optics housing.
When the unit is assembled, if you turn the knurled boss, the split pins only there as a temporary measure, the vision tubes move closer together or further apart to suit the driver.