VICKERS MK6B's resto

[colin jones]

Hi Rick, no that is how it is. One side is different to the other side as they are both original and I have only repaired some cracks.
Colin.

[lynx42]

Thanks Colin, shows how much I don't know about them.

[colin jones]

I thought I would put up some pics of a 3/8 rivet former I made this morning. It was a piece of mild steel rod and I used a off the shelf bull nose milling cutter for the shape. A bit of shaping on the lathe to suite my air gun and then some heat and quench in oil for a bit of hardness and it works very well. It's always hard to find tools from a supplier when you want one but some are not too hard to make when you need something specific.

[David Dunlop]

Colin, they both look so tidy now, I think I have lost track of which vehicles I am looking at. Hope you don't run into the same problem and end up thinking 'Wombird' and 'Bower Bat' by mistake one day!

David

[Howard]

Magic!

[James P]

Good lord you folks down there don,t do things half ways do you ?? Both your work and Big Ds M8 certainly rise the bar to new heights.

[Mike K]

Low carbon mild steel: normally it isn't suitable for heating/quenching . MS is usually case/surface hardened in an oven with charcoal or casenite powder. For small items a flame and hardening powder is suitable. These days you can buy the modern less hazardous case hardening powder , they used nasty stuff years ago with cyanide or something in it. The TAFE I went to, they had "casenite" hardening powder and a big oven .

The higher carbon steels suitable for quenching have special elements added , its a science on its own and its a complicated topic !