Leo2A6 Owner

Actually i stand corrected ist a composite hull, with spaced armor in front to the drivers and radio ops hatches.

septon

thank if you could post the external ones too that would be great i may also do a M32 with a welded hull to as i have a tamiya hull spare

Leo2A6 Owner

Sounds good. Let me go through and edit for size and contrast and il post them in a bit. I took about 50 pics. Youll see that his has been sitting a while. It has sink into the ground a bit. All th track is there. Aside from some road wear its in pretty restorable condition.

Leo2A6 Owner

ok here we go.

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last ones. I hope i was able to get some useful detail shots for you.

septon

thank you very much these photos will be so much help with my build

Leo2A6 Owner

Your welcome
I hope others find it useful as well.

The_Stuff

awesome pictures. that tank should most definitely be restored. Still amazed at how much it has sank.

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pattoncommander

Which winch are you interested in? The main winch had a huge drum inside at the rear of the upper superstructure. It fed through the box at the front which has sets of pulley wheels at the sides. A smaller winch fed at the top front of the same structure On the B-1 and B2 models and M-32A1B3, the smaller winch was used to raise and lower the boom by using a bar that locked into where the mortar base was and had a pulley at ther top end. The cable fed through the pulley and back to the boom A frame and this eliminated the need for the bracket on the right side boom. The bracket had a lock bracket on the hull which held the boom in place when errected. A short cable was placed into one of the 3 points on the bracket and into a flange on the right sprocket. The driver would raise the boom by inchiong forward until the boom was straight up, then using the brakes, would ease forward until the bracket was locked into place. The boom had no additional movement possibilities. Removing engines or heavy items was done by the winch and A frame on the boom. The main cable was carried either backed up into the front box or let out a bit and locked into a front towing eye.
Pic of an M-32A1B3 showing the boom lifting mechanism. I have a pic of our M-32 in Korea but can't find it...will have to look. I ised to drive it for kicks and was able to leatrn a few things about it..

pattoncommander

I couldn't locate my M-32 without re-shooting the photo itself, but here are some pics of the 1;35 scale models I did for our museum, which shows the lifting bracket, cables and gear and a couple more photos of the M-32A1B3 showing details and stowage, with boom raised. My museum displays are extremely accurate and although a 1;1 scale is better, these at least, show the gear as seen in the normal operating mode. These may be of help.
Bill

pattoncommander

Forgot one very interesting thing on the M-32A1B3,,,,note the roller under the winch cable box on front. This was designed to string out the cable through the bottom escape hatch, over the roller and to whatever it was going to drag away. this provided a means for a crewman to actualy hug the ground and get the cable attached without exiting from top or standing to extract the cable. You learn some neat things researching for a museum.

septon

thanks for the info
heres some more pics of my M32 build

Leo2A6 Owner

that looks really good. Makes me want to get a 1/16 sherman now and do the one at Ft Knox

Panther F

What would be even cooler is that it can actually recover a vehicle!


Jeff

septon

that would be cool

YHR

Nice build thread. Interesting and informative.

septon

heres some more pics of my M32 with my firefly

hdbeast

NICE, both look great, the Sherman was a cool build, I think some of you guys should be extra nice to Santa (wife) and try a Sherman build. They do cost a bit more but are a nice and fun tank to build.

septon

bit more done tonight
got the Internal crew deck started

septon

and the winch that works i have tested it and it will lift a tamiya 1\16 gearbox

septon

been on the net and found some pics of a M32 with a mine roller called a T1E1 Earthworm started to make it tonight.
will post pics soon