1/10 soviet steel
02-15-2014, 10:53 AM
#51
Thread Starter
Got my mudguards fixed and mounted. Trying to bend that 5 mm lip along the length of them nearly killed me. Did it in the end with a vice grips and just slowly worked along both of them.
Then beat them smooth with a rubber mallet along a steel edge. Two brackets hold them on underneath. I would have started on the 100 or so 1.3 mm holes for the triangle brackets if my drill battery hadnt died. Tapping all of them to 1.6 mm should be a world of fun!
As mentioned before, the drive units had to be changed from the handy - but weak - right angle gearboxes. Now I have a robust bevel gear set up. This would have been fine if the stupid drill motors didnt have an odd imperial thread on them.
trying to buy imperial taps here is not funny (unless you buy a full set) so I had to borrow one. And tapping those gears straight is not as easy as i thought it would be. Nonetheless, they are mounted.
Getting them to line up as accurately as one must for bevel gears to function correctly was a hassle.....the centre of the drive shaft axis must be exactly teh same height above the floor as the centre of the drill motor axis and doing that without machine tools would try your patience.
I got it in the end witha lot of filing and sanding and Im quite happy. Im hoping that the hacked together bracket for the two drill motors will hold - its made of two slabs of 10 mm brass and they
were silver soldered together. But getting metal pieces
of those size up to temperature with a propane torch took an hour and Im not sure if they were entirely where they should have been heat wise.
p
Then beat them smooth with a rubber mallet along a steel edge. Two brackets hold them on underneath. I would have started on the 100 or so 1.3 mm holes for the triangle brackets if my drill battery hadnt died. Tapping all of them to 1.6 mm should be a world of fun!
As mentioned before, the drive units had to be changed from the handy - but weak - right angle gearboxes. Now I have a robust bevel gear set up. This would have been fine if the stupid drill motors didnt have an odd imperial thread on them.
trying to buy imperial taps here is not funny (unless you buy a full set) so I had to borrow one. And tapping those gears straight is not as easy as i thought it would be. Nonetheless, they are mounted.
Getting them to line up as accurately as one must for bevel gears to function correctly was a hassle.....the centre of the drive shaft axis must be exactly teh same height above the floor as the centre of the drill motor axis and doing that without machine tools would try your patience.
I got it in the end witha lot of filing and sanding and Im quite happy. Im hoping that the hacked together bracket for the two drill motors will hold - its made of two slabs of 10 mm brass and they
were silver soldered together. But getting metal pieces
p
10-26-2018, 01:13 PM
#55
Great looking build!!!
10-26-2018, 04:54 PM
#56
Your model is wonderful and such an intriguing subject. Now that you have all your processes worked out are you planning to make any other KV variants?
Or was one enough....?
Jerry
Or was one enough....?
Jerry
10-26-2018, 11:53 PM
#58
Thread Starter
One was enough. Soviet armor is nice and all but its fairly boring. A fully tricked out Pz IV is a lot more visually interesting than acres of bare green armor and Ive had enough of green for a while.
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