Armortek

Hello Guys,

I saw now in the KT manual that you have to glue the two parts of the idler wheel together, but i am gonna drill some holes and use M3 or M4 bolts to keep the two parts together.( for replacing bearings maintenance)

Ps i made a mistake about the idler wheel of the tiger 1, it is in one piece and not two like i first said ( sorry )

regards Yves

Hello guys,


Yes 3 week holiday time, so i have a lot of time to work
on my 2 tanks.

This weekend i workt on the idler wheels. I made my own
modefication to put the 2 parts of the wheel together.

First i drill 4 holes for M3 thread and made a countersink hole for the bolts.



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Next i made some welds on the turret & turret roof.



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Put the 2 armor segments on the hull and place the 4 bumpstops.



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Tomorrow i am gonna work on the welds for the hull and more welds on the turret.

regards Yves

Hi Yves

Nice to watch your project. Keep up the nice work.

Kind regards
Tim

Hello,

Thank you Tim for your compliments,
this week i workt on the hull welding, first cut out some line to
hold the milliput in.



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After this i workt on the drive case, there are on both sides two holes to drill in the hull and tap M3 thread.



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So now all the 15 bolts on both sides are in place.



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Next step, i have made a front deck locking system ( i saw that
from John Grima his KT build, thanks John )



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Thats it for now
see you later
regards Yves

Hello,

Yesterday and today i workt on the KT wheels,
that's a lot of sanding with mr dremel.
i'am almost ready to put primer on the wheels.



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Than put the wheeltabs on 18 wheels.



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Put some TS-3 dark yellow on the sprockets



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Tomorrow i sand the last six wheels and put the primer on,
and fix the bearings in the hubs.

regards Yves

the wheels seem to take forever, but do make the end result worth it, , best to have some other jobs going on aswell, its a big job to complete these models from start to finish, keep going yves, regards simon.

Hello again,

Thanks Simon for your support.

First sanding the wheel hubs and wheelplates,
than i put all the bearings in the hubs and secure them with
loctite nr 648





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Next step prime the wheels, the hubs and hubplates.



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Today arrived some parts from Steve W



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Regards Yves


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all the pictures remind me of my wheel saga, cant stop now yves, regards simon.

At this rate you will be finished by open day. Coming along nicely. Great looking parts from Steve.

Hello John,

Unfortunately the KT will not be ready for the openday,
because i still must work on my tiger 1 electric stuff,
i think thats something for next week ( last week of the holiday time) but the KT takes a lot of my time now and i cant stop working on it, ha ha ha. I also need to buy all the electronics for my KT, thats something to do on the next openday,
maybe i see you there.

regards Yves

Hello,

Made some weldings on the front of the hull,
feeling a little like a dentist here.



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and on the back sides around the idler



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Did some work detail on the back, a little modifaction on the coverplate ( not finished yet ) i drill the two tensioner plates for
easy track adjustment.



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made a modifiction on the original Armortek jack blok ( not finished yet )



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And the last step for today, the exhaust system also with a modifaction ( also not ready )



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See you later
regards Yves

Hello again,

I post a double picture and forgot one to post
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regards Yves

Hello Yves,

Great job you are doing on the KT. Hoppefully we will meet at the open day. Not sure for me. Have to undergo some surgery and not sure if I will recover fully in time.

Regards,

Marcel

Hello,

Thank you for your compliments Marcel,
and like i said before in the PM hopefully you are ok for
the next openday.

Today i am a small step further, here are a few pictures



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The center coverplate is now done



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greetings from Belgium

those detail parts your making look good yves, makes a differance to the finished model, so in the final photo you can't tell if its model or the real beast!, regards simon.