E-Bay Carrier just sold

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by RichardT10829

wonder why they would charge so much for a cast set ? am I naive in thinking you only need one good track link to make a pattern, then the metal from the old links are melted down plus some extra bits to account for lost material in the smelting process you can drill the pin ways yourself iwht a good pillar drill no ? my thoughts were if you are going to make new tracks you could CAD a design to incoroporate track pads for the road to make them last a touch longer .

Richard,

You're right, casting new track links is the easy part, albeit they have to be hardened. The difficult (and expensive!) part is forging/machining/hardening track pins.

Secondly, yes, I suppose one could make a padded track, but realistically it would be a lot more money and frankly, considering carriers have relatively little ground pressure, a waste of time. Rubberized tracks might allow a bit more traction on asphalt, but probably not enough to justify their design & manufacture.