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Old 03-29-2021, 05:09 PM
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Hello everybody,

and now let's come to the last squeezing & bending round, it becomes time slowly too.

In the first step it went down from 70 to 50 pins,



subsequently from 50 to 30 pins,



then from 30 to 10 pins.



And finally the long-awaited Countdown of the last grouplet was approaching: 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - Cut-off!!!



Hard to believe, but it's done, and so am I!!!

The battlefield is deserted and the pins are safely stowed away.



Therewith the cutting of the pins to their final length of 6 mm can follow now, which then can be threaded into the Pin lugs of the Track shoes, which will finally result in the 8 Crawler chains.

After careful consideration, I've decided not to shorten the pins using the Miter Cutter, but with the already tried and tested Single-cut method using the steel ruler angle.



And so it will go on soon,



because 350 pins are already waiting for the final cut.

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