Has anyone got or can make me a tool for track pins?

[Stewart Ashton]

As title

I seem to remember Paul made a tool out of a G clamp
which looked very good.

Any response greatly appreciated and I have some spare dosh

Regards Stewart

[Richie Wignall]

hi stewart

Do you have the track pins with the round clips at the end? if so i used a small socket to just push them on, and you need a small nut to ues as a spacer between the pin and the floor at the other end, easy but if you have the spare pennys get the drilled pins and split pins of gill, i have never looked back, so much better and faster.

i see your in blackpool, your well come to the tank meets at warton nr carnforth, theirs one this sunday.its good to see other tanks and to see how other people have done things.
richie

[Stewart Ashton]

Hi Ritchie,
Aye the horrid little round things

I am building the Flak 88 and the towing unit. Taking ages but good fun and the tiome flies.

No vehicle and virtually housebound. Shame as it would be nice to meet folks.

If ever your coming my way let me know via pm.

Regards Stewart.

[Richie Wignall]

hi stewart

no problem, the drilled pins are the way forward, i was well glad to see the back of the round crimp washers

richie

[Steve Stuart]

Does anybody produce tiny nyloc nuts? then threading nearly two hundred track pins might be an attractive proposition My job can involve threading bicycle spokes, something we avoid if at all possible! but the real question is how were the real, original track pins secured and so what is the most authentic?
However I do appreciate that a moving model, which is the best, may need compromises. I have just test driven my Tiger on the field by our house and the scufff marks in the grass are good,.... and the lines on the tarmac path are very satisfiying,.... and my sons enjoyed driving it over the earth mound at the end of our road!
On the move at last, Steve

[David Lee]

Hi All,

If the issue is about putting the round clips to the ends of the track pins, here is the solution from one of the members but I can't remember who.

Solution:

This is the general idea, and you can use small blocks, nail them on a length of wood to address the spacing and depth issue on the pin and track ends. And you can insert the round clips into five pins or more at one go.

1. Take a few small blocks/cubes of wood, each the size of the indent/trough (space where the pins come through) between the tracks (side view).

2. Drill a hole in each block of wood, each hole should be that same as the diameter of your track pins, distance between each block of wood to be placed on the length of wood should be the same as the spacing of each pin insert in your track link.

3. Place one round clip each on each hole on the wooden block (the circumference of the round clips is definitely larger than the hole)

4. Place the end of the each pin vertically over each hole with the round clip resting on the wood and press downwards. So the each pin is inserted into the hole and round clip will click into the grove.

Hope I am answering your question and not confusing you.

[Paul Morris]

Hello Stewart.
I did make a small tool for doing the job you are on with, if you are really struggling i can make one for you quite easily, just let me know .
Richies idea with the small socket is more or less the same idea but one little dodge i did... instead of using a small nut, get hold of 2 or 3 screws with a head about the same size as the head of your track pin screw them into a piece of wood then its a simple matter of sitting the head of the pin onto the head of the screw and the press washers go on very easily with either the tool i made or indeed a socket, if you spaced the screws in the wood to correspond with the track spacing you can do two or three at a time quite easily.
Hope this helps a bit regards Paul

[Paul Wills]

Hi All,

Sorry Paul, I think he means me, to many Paul's.

Stewart,

I take it you mean this little number from my web site.



it's just a basic G clamp, with a bit of shaped ally pipe to hold the clip, and brilled at the other end, tapped and a bolt screwed in.

Paul Wills .

[Stewart Ashton]

Hi Paul W

Thats the fella

Ive managed to make a wooden thingy with 4 screws which works a treat.

Many thanks to you all.

Regards Stewart.

[Paul Morris]

Paul M

[Dan Williams]

Hi For my Panther I took 1/2 sq steel block 1" long and drilled a 2mm hole though the lenght,and drill a 3mm hole to have a step inside the block.This match the shape of the track pins.And drill a cross hole #55 so I could cross drill all of my Panther track pins.I want to do the same for this model
too.Dan