2024 88MM FLAK 36 ARMORTEK KIT

[Armortek]

Redesign work on the bogies is now 99% complete.

Pretty much every part you can see in the image below has been modified and more detail has been added.

These bogies alone contain 4 gears that are used for lifting and lowering the main gun cruciform.
And, similar to the real mechanism, we have made the extension shaft extendable so that the handle bar clears the fenders during operation.

Production on some of the bogie parts has already started.

[Jerry Carducci]

Are the chain hoist pulleys, if that is the correct name for them, still to be made of zinc alloy?

On the 88 I rebuilt I made my chain hoists (yes it's a stretch!) functional. Took some doing and changes and the chain
I used proved to be a source of concern- the links need to be brazed or welded to stay closed but my last concern
was those pulleys.

I realize I'm the odd nut that will do stuff like this and cranking one end of that massive contraption wasn't easy however
it was fun to make it work. I wouldn't expect steel pulleys but perhaps brass or aluminium?

Jerry