VICKERS MK6B's resto

[super dave]

Again WOW, I think that only you could have done such a feat as to manufacture a complicated transmission housing

[Russ Gregg]

A hundred years from now this will change hands of the rarest of all Vickers Mk6B's, the only one with the steel gearbox upgrade. There will be all sorts of speculation over whether it was a factory prototype or done as a training exercise for the motor pool etc. Nobody will guess clever Aussie in a well equipped shed.

[Mike Cecil]

....Unless Colin does what Museums routinely do and stamps into it the date made and by who, thus clearly indicating it as a part manufactured during restoration.

It is a common 'problem' with restorations particularly where records can be lost or mislaid: just what is an original part and what is substituted from another source. Without clear indicators such as the stamping mentioned, it can lead to all sorts of speculation and assumptions.

Mike

[colin jones]

Thankyou Dave, but I think you are underestimating so many guys here with some of the resto's that have been done.
Mike, that's a good Idea. There is a plate on the trans cover that is all but gone so I will replace it with one of my own. Perhaps I might put "Panzervicker" and give them all something to think about in a century or so.
I started the side parts today and even thought the two parts I made don't look very big or complicated they took me all day and it took quite a while to get them set up for the correct radius but I got is at the end.

[colin jones]

These two pieces are 1" thick steel and they are now drilled and tapped with 3/8 BSF threads.

[jack neville]

It will be an interesting observation in the end Colin that the most heavily armoured part of this tank will be the gearbox.

[colin jones]

I set my original box on my work table and welded stays down to it with braces to stop movement while it gets welded. I have also cut my pieces on my new CNC plasma machine. They take some getting used to but cuts great and very accurate.