Sherman Duplex Drive...
- FredtheFrench
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Thank you Maccrage. Faster than me and maybe more comprehensive than my message. Thx.
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I had one other pic of the right side sprocket arrangement..
Again, the barriers around the tank got in the way.
Again, the barriers around the tank got in the way.
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This is my video about this tank during swimming test last november.
Sorry, this video is bad, but I need to buy a video editing software.
I hope you will like the work ( the tank, not the video ).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DqylxQMlrs
Sorry, this video is bad, but I need to buy a video editing software.
I hope you will like the work ( the tank, not the video ).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DqylxQMlrs
Sorry for my spelling mistakes, I try to do better every day...
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Very rare model - excellent!
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Looks great. I don't see a rudder. How do you steer, by applying more power to one propeller? It seems to work very well.
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I wondered that as well, Gary. On the DD in Bovington, it appeared that the propellers were attached to swivelling brackets, so they could both be moved together to apply a variable thrust to starboard, or port. With fixed propellers, I guess the method you suggest looks like the only practical option. With pointy prow, however, it would work quite well..Max-U52 wrote:Looks great. I don't see a rudder. How do you steer, by applying more power to one propeller? It seems to work very well.
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Max-U52 wrote:Looks great. I don't see a rudder. How do you steer, by applying more power to one propeller? It seems to work very well.
43rdRecceReg wrote:I wondered that as well, Gary. On the DD in Bovington, it appeared that the propellers were attached to swivelling brackets, so they could both be moved together to apply a variable thrust to starboard, or port. With fixed propellers, I guess the method you suggest looks like the only practical option. With pointy prow, however, it would work quite well..Max-U52 wrote:Looks great. I don't see a rudder. How do you steer, by applying more power to one propeller? It seems to work very well.
Exactly. For me, it was impossible to recreate the system at 100% identic. The true system works like 43rdRecceReg explain. But mine works with a slower propeller, or to be faster, with inversed propeller between right and left.
I hope my explanation is clear? Sorry guys and thank you for interest.
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- FredtheFrench
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Good evening guys.
This is a link available only for a week!!!
It is about the French documentary about the Sherman Duplex drive. My model can be seen at 40min20s to 42min55s.
The site who was filming the experience with my model, is a very sensitive military site. It is the same site where the royal navy comes to try new propellers and others things to test for boats and submarines.
The link:
https://rmcdecouverte.bfmtv.com/vestige ... gram_5767/
This is a link available only for a week!!!
It is about the French documentary about the Sherman Duplex drive. My model can be seen at 40min20s to 42min55s.
The site who was filming the experience with my model, is a very sensitive military site. It is the same site where the royal navy comes to try new propellers and others things to test for boats and submarines.
The link:
https://rmcdecouverte.bfmtv.com/vestige ... gram_5767/
Sorry for my spelling mistakes, I try to do better every day...
- FredtheFrench
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Sorry for my spelling mistakes, I try to do better every day...
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Many thanks for the Link, Fred, and also- of course- for the unique thread you have created here.
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