Panzer III swing arms once again.

[Adrian Harris]

Does anyone have any close up shots of the wheel end of the Panzer III swing arm, preferably without the wheel attached

The gallery Jim posted has some StuGs with the wheels missing but, frustratingly, they are not high enough resolution for the detail to survive once they are magnified.

I know the arms with the shocks attached have a squarer profile end than the standard arms but I'm trying to determine how the axle fits to the end of the arm in each case.

Adrian.

[Stephen White]

Adrian

Try this - a number of pictures which you may be able to use:

http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Panzer_III.pdf

Regards

Stephen

[Adrian Harris]

Thanks Stephen

A bit of detective work from those pictures and I found some walk-arounds on Prime Portal which show pretty much all I need

Now just need to wait for the brass to arrive and to get my new drill wireed up and running.

Adrian.

[Sarah Frazer]

Hi Adrian,

I came across this photo from Bovington which might be useful.




Regards,

Sarah

[Adrian Harris]

Thanks Sarah

How's your Panzer III build - any progress

Adrian.

[Sarah Frazer]

Hi Adrian,

I've had a lot of problems with my back injury over the past few months so nothing has been done on my Panzer III. Though I have been joining the road wheels with the brass tubes together this week and I've now got a CAD model for the suspension guide blades.

Regards,

Sarah

[Adrian Harris]

> I've had a lot of problems with my back injury over the past few months

I'm sorry to hear that

> I've now got a CAD model for the suspension guide blades.

Snap

It will be interesting to see how they compare - did you use the Panzer Tracts drawings ?

Adrian.

[Sarah Frazer]

Hi Adrian,

Yes I used the Panzer Tracts book and also from photo's. Are you going to try and machine the recess for the mounting nuts? I was going to try and CNC them, I also though about getting them 3D printed, how about yours?


Sarah

[Adrian Harris]

No, I'm just getting various thicknesses of aluminium waterjet cut to shape and than sandwiching them together.

The only one I can't make this way is the part which attaches to the hull on the shock absorber arms.

I'm hoping I can either get that machined to the correct shape by a local machinist, or maybe do it myself with a rotary table.

It might be possible to counterbore around the holes but that layer of the sandwich is only 1.5mm thick, so there's not much metal there

Adrian.