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the track
seems that i lost some of the pictures of starting the track... after struggling with how to assemble the pieces so the track links would come out uniform enough to be assembled together i had the idea of making a jig so that the pieces could be glued together to form the links while the links were already "assembled" into a track
the jig lets me build 20 links at a time, about 1/2 of what's needed for each side i pushed the finished links off the pins and then assembled them them substituting small pieces of bamboo, i had to carve little "points" on the bamboo to be able to push it thru the 4 holes (2 for each link being joined) |
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I hadn't seen this thread until now - great work on the tracks. The design seems to have been based on the Renault FT tracks.
Oddly, I saw a reference to the Ford 3-ton recently with a French connection. The French Army ordered 1500 Ford 3-tonners as tow vehicles for the 75mm Mle 1897 field guns at the end of 1918. The Armistice in Nov 1918 resulted in the order being cancelled. The French view seems to have been that the Ford wasn't as good as their FT as an assault tank but would be very useful as a light tow vehicle for field guns, prossibly better than the French Peugeot T3. Regards, Charlie |
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tracks
i didn't like the look of the tracks when i tried to fill out the cleat with a piece of paper... so i tried a set where i carved the filler pieces from wood (from a ice cream bar stick)
they were an improvement, but still didn't look right |
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tracks again
my next attempt was to cut the paper cleat off flush and then make the whole cleat from wood... it think this is the way to go
the finished pictures are not here, but this shows the process of assembling the track links on the jig and then fastening them together with bamboo |
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the rest of the pictures
somehow these didn't make it in the first post
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Those are really beautiful.
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