Ken's Tiger

[Adrian Harris]

[Adrian Harris]

[Adrian Harris]

[Ken Molchanow]

Thanks for the kind words it is good to be back and working on the Tiger again.
Adrian to your question: I did put a cut in the wheels, about 1mm in depth, just enough for the Milliput to anchor to.



Here is a sample of the stand offs that I intend to use for the back of the Tiger. The stand off next to it is the fender stands off you get in the kit. 3mm vs. 4-40.

[Adrian Harris]

Thanks for the road wheel picture Ken, another job to add to the list

Adrian.

[Ken Molchanow]

A little more progress has been made over the past week on the rear of the T-1; I also found out that my video camera takes a better photo in the lighting that I have in my basement then my regular camera does.

Made the standoffs for the exhaust shields and for were the air cleaners would be mounted. Added welds to the standoffs that are mounted on the top of the rear plate. Contoured the rear plate to match the deck grates. A while ago I have purchased the front and rear mudguards from Mike Stannard, the mudguard kits where very enjoyable to build. Installed the rear mudguards and added the weld to the plates that make up the hinges. Starter plate, toolbox, exhaust shields and reflector are from Steve Winstone. Hung all the detail parts that I have for the moment will hang the rest when I get them.

Next: Need to mount the top deck and make the new standoffs for the side fenders.

[Ken Molchanow]

A little more progress:
Made most of the blocks that I need to secure the top decks in place, have a little more work on the sides to the rear deck. The tank takes on a different view with the decks installed and the turret bearing in place.



Installed the front fenders:
I liked the hooks that Tim made for his fenders, but I attached them a little different. I used some 3/16” magnets that I had to hold the hooks in place. One magnet is glued to the hook, the other is glued inside the hole that I drilled. The magnets are more than strong enough to hold the fenders in place, but should give way if debris gets in between the fenders and the tracks. Hopefully not causing damage to the fender, it seems to work if I pull up on the fenders. If I loose a hook when that happens, I loose the hook; I rather make a new hook then fix a fender.

[Rocky Sembritzky]

Ken,

Brilliant work!

Rocky

[Ken Molchanow]

It’s leaf season here and a bumper crop we had. There was not as much progress as I would have liked, but I did do a lot.

I made the 32 new standoffs that I needed for the Mud Guards. I used 4-40 screws instead of the 3mm screws that were provided with the kit for mounting the guards to the side plates. Mud Guards were notched and I squared off the corners to the braces.






Next: To finish off the mounting of the decks.

[Ken Molchanow]

Finished up the mounting blocks for the deck plates. After I was done I found that I could lift the bulkhead and deck plates were they join together. I know there is a lot of weight that holds that area down, but I added a block on each side and a screw on each corner of the front plate to hold that area in place. Can’t hurt.





Next on the items that mount on the rear deck.

[Ken Molchanow]

Started the rear deck, one of the things I have found are the castings are slightly different mostly in thickness. The castings themselves varied and the mirror castings were different also. The disk sander solved most of the problems to get the heights of the castings the same.

Spent a lot of time in front of the lathe, finally got 4 caps for the fuel and water that looked descent. After I re-worked the top of the front grill casting, I added a shim to simulate the bottom that the caps screws into, then added the weld around the shim.

[Steven Day]

Nice work on the filler caps.

Someone else on the forum is planning to make similar caps, and I hope to buy a set from him.

Steve

[Ken Molchanow]

Has been awhile since I posted anything. The rear deck is almost complete but on hold, I’m waiting for a few parts from Mike Stannard to complete that part of the build.

With the down time on the tank build I started another endeavor. I been wanting to get a small Scissor Jack to lift this brute up, but I opted to build one instead of buying it. I had some of the materials I needed and the balance I purchased. Up the road from me is one of the best industrial hardware stores in the tri state area, they got just about everything you can think of. Never built anything like this before, the worst I could do is give up and then go out and buy one.

The jack is 8” x 16” with a collapsed height of 2 ½”, so it fits under the Tiger with no problem. The main body is aluminum and the lifting parts are steel. I used four ½” cam rollers for the moving part. All and all it worked out pretty good, the threaded rod bends a little under the weight of the tank but I’m not going to use it every day.

Attached is a link, had a little fun with the camera to give you an idea how the jack works. Till the next post.

[Tim Bowman]

Hi Ken

Nice job on your Tiger and your new Jack.

best regards
Tim

[simon_manning]

just clicked on to this build, don't know how i missed it, very nice ken, regards simon manning.