Armour Dreams

[Tim Bell]

Originally Posted by Petr Brezina

Jonathan, your engineering and fabricating skills are outstanding. Great work!

Indeed... if he had been building tanks in 1944, we might not have won the war!

[Jonathan Moore]

Originally Posted by Tim Bell

Indeed... if he had been building tanks in 1944, we might not have won the war!

Sometimes I wonder if we did?

Evening All,
I had a little bit of time to play today so I made the handle that is used to rotate the turret by hand.

Only a little job but another one off of the list.

Jon

[Jonathan Moore]

Evening All,

I had quite a productive weekend making lots of little items for the linkage from the remote trigger in the turret gearbox to the MG, so now you can see how it operates.

[Jonathan Moore]

The other item was the cover that goes over the turret ring gear, well it's nearly finished but I was requested to make some biscuits by my dear wife and I know never to argue where the biscuit box is empty.

Until next time and thanks for looking.

Jon

[DaveBuckle]

Your panzer making skills are equalled only by your sense of humour.
Speaking of which, before you get too far along with the project: isn't that a 20mm magazine off one of the Bizmark's guns ...?

[Jonathan Moore]

Evening Dave,

I don't know about the Bismark but you are correct, the magazine is not the correct one for a Panzer II. the Correct magazine would have held 10 rounds of ammunition, where as my one holds 20 and would have been used in a flak gun. The initial purchase of the magazine merely started a thought process or one of those dreams that one has, that maybe just maybe, one could create something. The correct magazines are quite rare and the only ones that I have found for sale are very rusty or for sale in Russia. A member of another forum did promise to send me one but nothing ever materialised. ​

Anyway, as far as Panzer production is concerned I have achieved very little, only finishing the turret ring gear guard. Other than that, it has been a very busy week in one way or another, a week in which I decide that it was time that I increased my turning capacity, so I purchased a new toy.

jon

[Kirk Armitage]

Master 2500 ? A great lathe, a little daunting when you remove the gear box cover and peak in. Mine is missing parts for the taper attachment and did not come with a fixed steady, I had to modify one to fit.
In your hands that lathe will do wonders , this is a great thread.
Regards K Armitage