Chieftain Mk V scratch build

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Chieftain Mk V scratch build

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Awesome work Alwyn
Did you buy a length of spring & cut to the desired length?
Edit: oh, carbon steel or stainless?
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Beautiful work on those bogies, Alwyn. I love prototypical suspension on the models, it feels like the lazy way out when you see all these models with simple clock springs.

With regards to the off-scale return rollers (which I must admit I did not notice until you pointed them out), could you trim a few millimetres off the track centreguides?
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Hi folks, thanks for the good words, I thought about trimming the track centre guides but I don't want the tracks jumping off, I may reconsider later and print smaller return rollers though, I can always do that as an upgrade.

Wayne I bought a 400mm length of carbon steel spring and cut to 40mm lengths. I may need to cut slightly longer lengths once the tank is up to full weight but again I can do that later as the suspension is bolted together.

Otherwise it's all now down to printing the rest of the wheels/rollers, assembling them, and getting the gearboxes.

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Thanks Alwyn, I’ll order a length now
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You really are a wizard Alwyn!
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Thanks Tom, unfortunately I can't lay claim to any magical powers, it's all down to blood, sweat, and anglo-saxon swear words! :haha: :silent:

I had to modify the code for the spring mountings for the suspension
The springs were a different diameter to the original plan.

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Well that's one side done apart from the gearboxes

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Lot's more printing and assembling to do. You know things would be so much easier if Heng Long would just do a Chieftain or Centurion...... but then I suppose we wouldn't have as much fun :crazy: 8O :D

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Hi Alwyn, slowly but surely I'm picking things up as I go along, I actually managed to work out which line controlled the bore on the spring seat & reduced the rad by a mill, why... because I could, thanks for the masterclass :crazy:
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That's great Wayne, getting forum members familiar with openscad is one of the reasons I post the code. The best way of learning is to open the code in Openscad and alter it, and see what effect the changes have.

Havre fun :thumbup:

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Wow that really is amazing. Great work. Wow. I love it
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