Armour Dreams

[Jonathan Moore]

The support is bent in this unusual shape so that it misses the radio operators leg when the turret turns and yes the space is that limited.

That's all for now.

As an after thought, I have Just constructed a lovely pie for tea. A layer of thick cut bacon, followed by a layer of mushrooms, then a layers of chicken, a layer of cranberry sauce, and finally a layer of sausage meat, with a nice thick chicken gravy poured over the top, topped off with nice red Leicester thick crust pastry. Bloody tasty, I can tell thee.


Jon

[Jonathan Moore]

And my wife has instructed me to tell you, that I made her a vegetarian quiche. Red Leicester pastry, with mushrooms, sugar snaps and sweet peppers, mixed with egg, pepper cream and more red Leicester topped with melted Cambozola.

There, done as instructed.



Jon

[Tony Smith]

Is there nothing you can't turn your hand to?

[Jonathan Moore]

Evening Tony,

I can think of a few but the most frustrating thing is no one, in this part of the world, want's to pay me to make these toys.

Evening All,

2021, it doesn't seem five minutes ago that it was 1982 and I was leaving school to enter the big bad world and if someone had told me what a shit year 2020 was going to be I wouldn't have believed them. But forwards, onwards and backwards. On to the turret rotation gearbox and just to remind you what it should look like.

The top section is the actual gearbox, the lower section is just a guard to stop things getting trapped in the gear that meshes with the turret gear ring. This is what the gearbox housing looks like in my world.

[Jonathan Moore]

The original unit rotates the turret 4 degrees for every turn of the handle, so that's 90 turns to rotate the turret through 360 degrees, which I find quite hard to believe. I would have thought that there was a fine and course setting but I can't find any evidence of this, however I have read that the gearbox could be disengaged from the turret ring so that the turret could be rotated manually by hand. The original turret ring gearing would have been quite a precise component but of course mine has been fabricated, so I am trying to compensate for this by allowing the gear that meshes with the turret ring gear to have a certain amount of horizontal float. To this end, the internal gears are housed in a frame that rotates around the small forward gear shaft bearings, at the opposite end of the frame will be a spring, that puts pressure onto the frame, thus forcing the final gear and the turret ring gear together, I hope.

It's early days but I think that it will work.



Jon

[Jonathan Moore]

Evening All,

Things are progressing steadily in the right direction but not as quickly as I would desire. I attached the light and the power plug in the turret, a small job but another one off of the list and I have been making the components for the turret rotation gearbox.

[Jonathan Moore]

The gear box now has it's attachment brackets welded on.
I assembled the gearbox tonight, just to see how it all fitted, it's surprising how many parts there are and this isn't all of them.
It all appears to fit ok, now I just have to machine all the key ways and make the rotation wheel, if only it were that simple.



Jon