Important Announcement - Forum Upgrade

[Armortek]

This coming weekend we are going to be upgrading the forum to the latest version which will greatly improve its functionality.

In order to do this, it is necessary for the forum to be offline for a number of days. The old forum will be switched off tomorrow (Thursday 18th) at 9 am (BST) and will back by Monday (22nd) evening.

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Gill

[Adrian Harris]

Blimey - we'll all have to get on with actually building stuff

Good luck with the move

Don't forget to delete the install directory - I always do

Adrian.

[John Fitzsimons]

My productivity will improve. Must be careful about that.

[Stephen White]

Brilliant Gill, perfectly timed to coincide with my daughter's wedding.

Good luck.

Stephen

[Armortek]

John and Adrian - Enjoy doing some building!
... and Stephen hope you and your family have a wonderful day.

Gill

[Derek Attree]

Hi All
See you Monday night I hope. Good luck Gill and Mark with
the upgrade to a new site.

Derek

[Armortek]

Hello everybody

We are back online with this new version of the software for the forum. There are many enchancements here and it should be much simpler for you all to use. Please let us know if you find any bugs. Avatars will be back soon.

Thanks

[Derek Attree]

Hi Guys
Welcome back is there any chance to make the text white as I am
getting Grey on Grey and its a bit hard to read.
I did go to Specsavers

Other than that it looks a very nice layout.

Derek

[Armortek]

Hi Derek

Yes we thought that as well. Has now been changed, but you may have to refresh your browser a couple of times to see it.

Mark

[Doug Pinkerton]

Gill,

Love the new format. Very hi-tec...

[Kent Wiik]

Hi Gill and Mark,

The new look look good!
But...
My Panther saga has lost about ½ of its photos in messages I have written, can that be fixed please as a lot of work has been put into it.

Another thing, the PM function has an error as the "quote" function comes up instead.

Otherwise 5+ from me.

Kind regards
Kent

[Derek Attree]

Hi Gill and Mark
Good service as always
Much Better

Derek

[Armortek]

Hi Kent

I can see all your pictures fine. Try refreshing your browser and allow enough time for the pictures to be loaded. The PM button is is programming bug on the PHP template, we will have to get an answer fom them on that.

Mark

[Kent Wiik]

Hi again Mark,

My browser is ok and even after giving the pages a lot of time to load almost every photo in my saga showing "parts in progress" or finished are gone.
Still there are photos seen of the real thing but a lot of text and photos from my messages are not there, sorry

For example, my last one at page 10 dated Mars 07 2011 5:47pm looked like this before:
http://www.armortek.co.uk/Forum3b/viewt ... &start=135





Hi all!

I am afraid not that much today, just to let you know the saga is still on.
Have a down period in the build right now and needed something that required less brain activity for a while.

The track pins…they are very shiny so to speak.
Quite ok if you aim for a brand new Panther which I am not:



But after a while in field they look more or less like the track links.




Yes dirt and dust make them so after a while but I wanted them in the blackish/dark greyish color similar to the track links.
Paint is one option but maybe something else might do the trick?
Years ago a US stuff called “blacken it” was available here in Sweden but is now forbidden.
Toxic stuff I guess but it worked.

I have one of the earlier Panther kits and back then they was secured with a push on nut.
Today they are drilled and have a cotter pin, that is so much better and a far safer design.
Upgrade sets are available for a reasonable price but I decided to drill my set of pins myself.
(talking about a boring job…and not all 180 needed was drilled correctly… )

The color of the track links is in my eyes quite ok, looks as brand new real links in their blackish protection paint.
I will later give them the same MIG-treatment Tim has showed (thanks Tim) but skip the dark grey primer.

Almost by mistake I found that when heating up a link it change color into dark grey.
Using aluminium foil on a kitchen stove at high temperature the pin takes a beautiful color after some minutes.



Bye, bye shiny track pins

Will change the pins direction as the flat end look a bit like the real thing.



The uglier cotter pin end will face inwards, and then I also never have to worry about a pin coming loose and jam at anything on the hull side as it then travel outward well visible something is wrong.

I (Mr Dremel) will also give the track links some grinding (and that will take a while…) but more of that later on.

As always thanks for looking
Kent


Today I can only see the upper text and the 2 WW2 Panther photos.

I have every message saved on my own hard drive and might be able to edit the text myself but I have no access to my messages earlier then December 23 2010 to do so.
Also notice the whole message regarding the panniers are gone
Hope it is just a programming bug and can easily be fixed.
With +63000 wievs my saga seems to have some interest out there.

Kind regards
Kent

[Paul Morris]

Hi Mark and Gill.
Yes it all looks very nice indeed.
Well done and congrats.
Cheers Paul
P.S. like the new colours
P.P.S. thing is there's a lot to choose from