Cracking job you made of it. (Pictured)
Elevation servo.
One of the aims of the idea was not to change the "Armortek" option too much, so that a return to the original supplied mechanism would be easy to adapt back. A bag of original parts already in the spares box. Plan B, if everything goes Pete Tong.
The gun barrel is not just heavy, but very long too as you know, and I felt thinning it to reduce weight could only weaken it. I don't have a lathe either
. The lead counter weight is an extra 1.2kg to the original setup, it's a necessity to take the load off the servo. But then the fat servo itself has a lot less weight than the original mechanism and motor, so you could say it's probably only half the extra weight (600g) that's been added to the original set up.I remember a discussion years back where some builders wanted to slim down the weight of their Armortek models, I wholly agree to disagree.
Why do we buy these monsters in the first place and not buy an alternative manufactures 3mm fibre glass model.
Up to 90mm of frontal turret armor, that's why. ( I do anyway)
I'm must emphasize I'm not expecting much from the new system, But I've had experience of the screw jack system in Centurion, Comet, KT and watched others, the whirring sound of the robust screw jack and slow speed mimics the hand operation of WW2 tanks very well but it doesn't compare to the actual powered action of an MBT gun elevation. this is my take on it.
The servo system I've fitted is not a very sophisticated system and should only work on the 90' frontal arc. I'm not going for accurate angles of gun elevation or depression, enough to show it works should be enough for most of it's time in use. The manual override control should allow clearance over the rear deck.
At the end of the day the main thing is not to damage anything with that bloody big gun.
