Ok, so after a long day of wleding and fabricating on a Mustang, I decided tofuss with the mantlet on the Stug....sigh...alot of failed attempts later, I foind a way to make this thing work pretty well...in theory.....I think...
What I did was take 2 pieces of brass stock and drill a hole through both to press in a bearing. A piece of round brass stock to connect the two together as a shaft was installed. I then soldered the one part of flat stock to the brass tunbe that is glued into the mantlet. and on the other side I sodlered another piece of round stock to the first piece of round stock. This will be used as the pivot for elevation. Traverse is the second piece of flat brass with the other bearing in it. I took s coupl eof pictures but it is still not finished. For elevation pivot points I glued 2 ball ends to styrene. This will allow a little more side movement in the traverse system. I am waiting for a servo to arrive so I can mount that as a recoil unit, and then I can install the entire thing and test it with motors.