After a fair bit of faffing about...I now have a full set of road wheels structurally complete if not cosmetically.
The 4 double wheels with the inverted jelly mold hubcaps had me beat after a month of trying.
I asked around and no one I know could make them without going to whole lot of trouble.
So a friend turned the basic shape for me from aluminium and put a slight concavity in the outer wheel. I then fitted the brass hubcaps as for the other wheels.
As the Tiger track is a dual horn track as opposed to the single horn on the tank, certain "compromises" have been made. Not that I care at this point.
The tires are the usual delrin rings. These need careful sanding to take the sharp edges off and make them more rubbery in appearance.
I bought this pipe to have an inner diameter the same as the OD on the wheels. I was hoping for a press fit but I didnt get one...it was a slip fit.
I used a punch to dimple the outer rims of the wheels to try and improve the fit but I will have to use some epoxy or JB Weld to either increase the diameter of the wheel by 0.1 mm or so or simply glue the tires to the rims. Either way its not a big issue.
What is a big issue is whether or not the wheels interlock without touching each other on the axles. If not....I will have to reduce the thickness of the double rimmed wheels axles but that should be doable with some strips of sandpaper and so on.
Th eidler will be from a Stug. It looks similar (spokes and all) but it may not be thick enough to fit between the Tiger track horns. I can increase the thickness of the idler if necessary...I will see how it goes.
Th esprocket is a Tiger sprocket....from my measurements this is about 3mm or 4mm to big on the radius. Whether or not that matters time will tell.
If it does, that could be a deal breaking problem.
Next I guess will be the swing arms buy I am waiting for some 5mm steel from the UK.
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