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Old 06-19-2018 | 08:20 AM
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Inching along. I'm glad most of the tedium of making tracks is behind me. Besides making up some spares and fixing the link pins
properly so they don't work themselves out it's pretty much done. Doing this is one of those things you want to do least often. It's
just that the track link castings need quite a bit of clean up, sprues mostly and just can't just use a pair of diagonals to nip them off and filing to be consistent before they'll fit in the fixture and even look right. After actually drilling a few you get a feel for the tiny drill and how it will behave in the metal, you mostly know when to back off when the drill is getting loaded up. I broke 3 number 54 drills in the 270 links I drilled but was able to resharpen them once and I broke no number 53 drill at all. I also use A9 cutting juice. On to the next task. Return rollers, track tensioners.