awesome work dude. as an ex chain and rigging certifier i can fully appreciate these and very familiar with the details. here’s a new type that only came out around 8 years ago designed in Australia and are becoming very popular there and here in New Zealand. called a Maxibinder or Ausbinder and work like a leaverhoist and do not recoil as they crank in and crank out like the ratchet loadbinder you have done
and this is different variation on the ratchet loadbinders i used to sell also with folding handles. they also had winged hooks that were far easier on the chain
saw a guy get picked up off the ground one day using a long pipe on his old style loadbinders and it hooked him under his chin and lifted him KO’ing him at the same time. they outlawed the sale of those type here now and you have to get the non recoil type where the handle will fold differently.
Just got back from Iceland yesterday and am catching up. I’ll take a 1:35 M55 8-Inch barrel and a set of roadwheels and idlers for the ILK M55. I also need 2 more roadwheels for the M53. The mounting holes need to be 3mm in diameter and 6mm deep. I was a bit careless last night as I was drilling them out and bottoming them and broke through the hub on one…
Let me know cost and shipping and I’ll Paypal the amount to you.
Thanks for doing these correction parts. It is most appreciated!
The whole turret interior is off. It is missing the large ammo box that goes around the rear half, optics are wrong and way too low, ammo feed and electronics boxes, along with a circular shield are all missing, etc., etc…
A standard M250 smoke grenade launcher doesn’t have those bumps, nor the ones in the square/rectangular openings either. Not sure what is going on there.
Dan and @HeavyArty, all I know is that based on all my reference photos, there were those round bumps and square plate on the top on those launchers. EVERY photo.
Could there be different versions? Possibly.
M239 vs. M250? Maybe? Hard to see them because they’re small and depending on the angle, color, etc. they may not be apparent? Maybe?
As to M60A3’s, based on my research, M239’s were used, which appeared on M88’s also. I could not find clear photos but AFV Club’s M60A3 kit parts have them:
