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Thanks Mick and Dave!

I now understand the design.

Mick, Picture of the Mato bogies attached in previous post.

Barry

Son of a gun-ner wrote:They are detail parts. They have the same size hole as the chassis.

Mick.

Thanks Mick, that's kind of what I was thinking, they do not look like clips.

Barry

Son of a gun-ner wrote:You're welcome Barry.
If you'd like, I can take a picture of the clip on the inside of the mato chassis in a few hours after I've done what's expected from me from the wife lol.

Mick.

That would be most kind of you!

Dave will be my source.

Barry

BarryC wrote:

MichaelC wrote:Barry, its pretty straight forward. You can get Mato metal bogies separately, and just require a little bit of sanding on the mount. The Heng Long bogies uses two mount posts on the chassis so you just need to cut them off. I use two part epoxy and never had any issues with them coming off or anything in lots of battles.The Mato bogies however are a little wider than the the Heng Long ones so you do have to run them in a little bit if you are using Heng Long tracks.

I did it because back then there was no metal option for Heng Long Sherman lower, and I like the Mato bogies much better.

MichaelC.

Thanks Michael, but like Mick I'm a little confused about how much metal must be removed given they are designed to fit through the hull as opposed to mounting external as the HL bogies.

Thanks,
Barry

Sorry guys I am 6 hours behind and had to work early this morning. If I recall correctly, the "clips" is actually detail parts (which is already mentioned) and I didn't use the Mato ones. I left the same detail part on the Heng Long chassis and the sanding to the Mato bogies is to make sure there is a right angle to attached to the Heng Long chassis. Once you have a good bounding surface it was just straight two part epoxy.

The Mato bogies does not penetrate the lower hull at all. In fact looking at a Mato lower now I don't even know how it is attached. The loose ones from Dave does not come with any "mounting" hardware I don't believe. Maybe it is also two part epoxy ........

if you look at the base in side you will see the clips held in with the 2 screws so you poke the mato suspension in the base slide the clip in and then use the 2 screws to hold clip on
the clips dont come with the metal wheel kit
also the 2 front sets of suspension have just the clips in no screw as the gearboxes hold them in

This appears to be a plastic lower with the metal bogies?
I've looked a few pictures of the metal lower with the bodies installed and there appears to be a single screw through the clip into the top of the bogie.
Maybe two different ways based on metal or plastic lower?

Either way I believe I can make them work. I will send an order your way Dave.

Thanks,
Barry

thanks barry got it
all the best dave