Armour Dreams

[Jonathan Moore]

Morning,

To be honest David I don't know and initially I have plans to do either. I found reference to fabricating track links in one of the cruiser tank reports which although found their life to be in the hundreds of mile, 600 I think, indicated that the trial was never repeated. The items that will have to be correctly treated are the track pins but at present I can't find any information, material heat treatment, on them so any assistance would be appreciated.

Bob, what's spare time, in my world it never existed.

Jon

[David Dunlop]

Jonathan.

As luck would have it, lurking somewhere in the bowels of one of our geriatric computers or laptops scattered about the house, I happen to have an article from the 90’s dealing with the use of heat treating track pins for the purpose to repairing and reusing them, which I stumbled across when restoring my Universal Carrier. It is about 100 pages, as I recall, but I do not remember what format it was saved to back then. Rather technical, and dealing with steel formulations of the day like ‘E?????’ It might be a US Army publication.

If you want to PM me your direct email address, I will try and find the article and see how best to send you a copy. It might make an interesting read over toast and marmalade for tea, not to mention breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Best regards,

David

[David Dunlop]

I found it, Jonathan.

It is a 64 page PDF file sitting in my 1st Gen iPad under a cryptic title. I shall now attempt to rename it to something more meaningful and move it to our new iMac for better handling.


David

[Jonathan Moore]

Recently I have been getting the radio's, intercoms working. I had intended to use Clansman units but when I was browsing the net looking for rubber ear pads for the headphones, I came across the web site whrestorer. I bought a set of headphones and was so impressed that bought a complete kit. When you compare the headphones and throat mikes to originals, they really are the dog dangley bits, of course I have association with said company.

Anyway the radios are in and the intercoms are working, I am happy to say that the slip ring / rotary coupling works well and the only problem that I had was with a Clansman cable. It was second hand and had, at some time, been repaired but before I soldered the new plugs on the end I tested it and all the wires were fine. However when I came to test the whole setup the commanders position coms wouldn't work. It turned out that one of the six cables had a break in it, I only needed three but sods law said that one of the three had a break in it, I suppose that is why the cable was binned.

[Jonathan Moore]

The radios are of course just covers, the main intercom box is in one and the other is empty, apart from cables. However, I have put 2 LED's in the wave length windows to light them up and so that I can tell if the units are switched on. The intercoms are turned on by the on/off button on the front of the left hand unit and the radio operators head set, throat mike plugs in to the front of the left radio, as per the original.

[Jonathan Moore]

Saturday was supposed to be hay day buy the weather wouldn't play game so I decided to use the time wisely and give the tank it's final top coat of paint and then today I removed the masking tape from the wheels and attached all the pioneer tools, all I have just got to now is to reapply all the markings. In the afternoon we played making hay.

Jon

[Jonathan Moore]

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[ChaseR83]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Moore

Morning,

To be honest David I don't know and initially I have plans to do either. I found reference to fabricating track links in one of the cruiser tank reports which although found their life to be in the hundreds of mile, 600 I think, indicated that the trial was never repeated. The items that will have to be correctly treated are the track pins but at present I can't find any information, material heat treatment, on them so any assistance would be appreciated.

Bob, what's spare time, in my world it never existed.

Jon

Jon did you ever get any track pin info regarding material and heat treat?

I don't have anything the on the Panzer II but I do have the following from a CIA report on a captured T-34, maybe this will help.