A pair of threes. Stug/PZIII

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Re: A pair of threes. Stug/PZIII

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Turret work.

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Need to make a new barrel and breech. Turret elevation will be just below.
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Barrel. Drilled a 3.13 mm hole scaled to 16th works out to 50.08 mm. Sure beats the 6 mm x 16 = 96 mm.

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Zip tied to the stocker:

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Hatch swap. The PzVI donated the turret hatches for the PzIII. Will order replacements soon for the 4.

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Lift mech:

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Max elevation:

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Depression:

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Re: A pair of threes. Stug/PZIII

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Why does everyone else seem to make elevation units easy? I wished you had posted this yesterday when I was struggling with my Challenger. Even inspiration from red wine didn’t help.
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It is a much cheaper route than changing out to 6.1 or 7.1 versions. I have three tanks in need of those. Projects like the Priest and M32 free up extra components.
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Ecam wrote: Sat Jan 20, 2024 1:23 pm It is a much cheaper route than changing out to 6.1 or 7.1 versions. I have three tanks in need of those. Projects like the Priest and M32 free up extra components.

Small misunderstanding. I was looking at the linkage. Which looks like it would also work with a servo.
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Those are the servo sleeves and wood mounting screws. Simply drilled a hole in scrap plastic and pressed the sleeves in (and a dab of CA).

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Thank you.
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Working on a couple ways to make the vents better. One is a speaker cover with coating removed. The second is two layers of aluminum screen one layer turned 45 degrees from the other. This time I used staples to hold layers while polyurethane was drying. The urethane makes the wires slightly thicker and glues the layers together.

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