VICKERS MK6B's resto

[colin jones]

And the finished product.

[colin jones]

Well that's all the bins completed for both turret baskets. I now need to repair the angle frame that sits on the bottom and I can reassemble them.

[colin jones]

still working on my turret basket internal frame machining down the oversize angle. Such a shame the original just turns to powder.

[colin jones]

Done a test fit and all appears to be a good fit. It just seem to be highly over engineered.

[Mike Cecil]

Of course it is over engineered ... it's British!

Mike

[colin jones]

Great, it all fits and the next fab job is the turret stays. I will make a press tool bar to make these as they are about 900mm long, tapered and a 180deg return on each side for strength.

[colin jones]

The stays are 3mm ally and they are tapered 200mm out to 340mm. I made a former for my press brake to get the 180 return on both sides. They are extremely rigid once pressed.

[colin jones]

They are secured by 7 bolts at the bottom and then another 3 at the top of the turret basket. It's seems quite odd but they are not symmetrical every stay is a different angle and a different distance apart. That alone is going to be tricky to mount it to the turret and have it traverse within 10mm from centre Once again, I guess they had their reasons.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by colin jones

The stays are 3mm ally and they are tapered 200mm out to 340mm. I made a former for my press brake to get the 180 return on both sides. They are extremely rigid once pressed.

"...The best candidate, based on current evidence, for the earliest species in our genus is Homo habilis (meaning “handy man”). ..."

Spend 6 hours making a tool that does 3 perfect passes and is in use for all of 5 minutes. Sounds about right.