M88 Tracks

[Long_tom]

Incidentally I bought my M88 kit when there a number on eBay. When I looked now I noticed a lack of the original version. Are they such a hot seller?

[taylorrl]

A good single blade nipper like the Godhand SPN-120 will cut these off cleanly with no breakage.

[KurtLaughlin]

@18bravo

I could foresee the possibility of breakage while filing the sprue gates smooth, so I removed the entire inner sprue first, with the rotary saw in a Dremel, filed the sprue gates smooth, and then removed the outer sprue. The outer sprue supports everything while you do this.

Looking back at the blog I wrote on Track-Link, that’s exactly what I did. I did cut between each attachment, but not all at once. I held the part in some flat/wide tweezers directly behind each nub for filing. Clamping in a PE bending tool is a good idea, so long as you can get a good grip behind each nub. If the part can bend away from the filing It can break.

KL

[Surbass]

Do you happen to know what the road wheels on the M103 and M48 are called? They are the same, aren’t they?

[KurtLaughlin]

They are called DISK: wheel, w/TIRE (vulcanized); they were P/N 7013976 on both tanks

KL.

@Surbass

Do you happen to know what the road wheels on the M103 and M48 are called? They are the same, aren’t they?

[barkingdigger]

I’m sure they were called all sorts of other fine Anglo-Saxon terms, especially when crews had to change them in cold, rainy, muddy conditions!

[Surbass]

@KurtLaughlin

They are called DISK: wheel, w/TIRE (vulcanized); they were P/N 7013976 on both tanks

KL.

thanks

[Surbass]

Do you happen to have a drawing of these road wheels as an assembly together with the hub and its cap? Or maybe you know where something like this can be obtained?