The life and times of No 28.

[Charles A Stewart]

Evening all.

Just a quicky tonight, dry fit of motor, see how it goes etc. I ran the motor using a 7.5v battery so not full tilt:-



Now I will strip it down, paint, grease, reassemble & test again. After which we will see.

Cheers

Charles

[Charles A Stewart]

Hi Folks.

Honest, it is only by pure coincidence that a flurry of S1 stuff should appear on the forum this evening.

I thought I would share progress since testing the running gear(which seems to have had quiet a few viewings). The settled weather has mean't I have been able to do some painting:-

Scrubs up well, the bolts will becomes studs, once everything is cured.

Gloss or matt (I know the answer, it was rhetorical)

On a painting note, does anyone have a recommendation for a paint that will replicate the older/weathered galvanized metal parts. Some of the steel paints seem to bright?

Take care.

Charles

[John Clarke]

Looking good Charles, can't help you with the painting, although looking at some museum pieces, no sweat.
"Swamp thing", "barn find" or "working and in service" all looks you can find on the net and no doubt Joan Collin's can help you out with the studs

[Charles A Stewart]

Good evening.

Carrying on with the fitment of things. BTW this is going to be the spare wheel, so is open to some abuse at this stage.

Centre holes will need widening, a bit. But studs work.

I now need to open the other four so they can fit on the axle without removing paint.

One lives and learns

Cheers all

Charles

PS Missus pointed out, quite rightly(I know where my bread is buttered), where are the tyre inflation valves
Watch this space

[John Clarke]

Looking forward to seeing all four studded wheels on the wagon. Excellent mod, as for opening out the holes, I think it's called chipping in the detailed model painting world
Ahh "Women, the other great mystery of the universe" always there to put you on the straight and narrow.

[Charles A Stewart]

Afternoon all.

Couldn't resist it.

Only running on a 7.2V lash up, but seems to does the run on the grass OK, struggled a bit on the soft earth of the tank track. We hope a video will be forthcoming. So here a couple of photos for now:-

A word of warning though, even at 7.2v and voltage regulate turn up too high it could out run you, be aware

I am lucky I have a lad to run after it

Cheers
Charles

[John Clarke]

Cool Studs and all too.

[Donald Suttie]

Afternoon all.

Couldn't resist it.

Only running on a 7.2V lash up, but seems to does the run on the grass OK, struggled a bit on the soft earth of the tank track. We hope a video will be forthcoming. So here a couple of photos for now:-

Baby crawler 1.jpg

Baby crawler 2.jpg

A word of warning though, even at 7.2v and voltage regulate turn up too high it could out run you, be aware

I am lucky I have a lad to run after it

Cheers
Charles

Did you adjust the Diffs? i found them really loose?

Donald

[Charles A Stewart]

Hi Donald
PM'd

Charles

[Charles A Stewart]

Good afternoon everyone.

I had a pm asking me about my wheel studs and the brackets on the leaf springs.

Springs first then. The brackets were first bend, in vice and hammer over, second bend, over a former (about 7mm, I used a 4mm & a 3mm) clamped in vice and hammer over.

Bent so as to fit around the springs.

2.5mm sections were then cut off(see earlier post), tidied up and drilled to suit.

Brackets were secured with 12BA x 1/2", then trimmed.

Studs are simply m2.5 bolts loctited(638) into the hubs, cut the heads off, which could be used for something sometime maybe.

M2.5 bolts glued in place.

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Fit nuts, trim and touch up paint work.

M2.5 lock nuts, can't remember where I go them from.

Hope that answers any queries, take care

Charles

[Charles A Stewart]

Evening all.

Thought I would get my panel bashing head on, ahead of some stuff I would like to do on the Chieftain. Not a lot needs to be said, you can see where I am going with this, enjoy.

Using the AT grill as a jig.

A bit of fettling.

Dry fit, slight resemblance, possibly.

See the likeness.

That's all for now, take care. Oh, BTW one reason for this mod was:-

Note radius, not found on the models front end.

Enjoy the weekend.
Cheers
Charles

PS Found this, this week, come on own up who bought it?

[Robert Reid]

PS Missus pointed out, quite rightly(I know where my bread is buttered), where are the tyre inflation valves
Watch this space

Good lord... How could I have forgotten that on my 25 pdr... Limber... And I have to modify all my Ghost wheels!

Please buy your wife something nice on behalf of all of us!

Cheers,

RPR

[Charles A Stewart]

Certainly will

[Charles A Stewart]

Hi all.

After a bit of procrastination, finally got around to the tyre (tire, US) air valves, still two to do. A very simple mod and the wife approves of the result , so there you go:-

M2 grub screw, that's all, honest.

As a later model '80'. Valve aligned with a stud hole.

OK, that done, does anyone know where I can get M2 valve covers from?

Have fun, take care and batten down the hatches. Well here anyway.

Cheers
Charles

[John Clarke]

Love these "inflated ideas" you have Charles
Wish there were more builds of the S1 going on, I never get "tired" of them