I hated cutting suspension arms especially because I used carriage bolts (square holes). I had to drill the approximate hole size after cutting the arm to length on a steel cutting chop saw and then use my Skill saw to cut out the square. Once the square was close, I used a file to clean up the edges of the hole and do the final fitting. Very time consuming indeed. Then the bar stock I used was fairly thin. So thin that the square part of the bolt interfered with getting the nut tight. Rather than start over with a different design, I squared out some holes on some large washers to act as spacers. Had to go through the whole process a second time. And then a third time to mate the carriage bolts to the chassis. Ended up having to make 48 square holes....
Derek T065 On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Clark Ward Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > > No fear on that, Derek, my boat-battling buddy Mike Mangus won't send > me the FV103 plans until he sees video of the Sherman rolling around & > shooting :) I got more done on fiberglassing the M4's hull bottom, > and I'm 1/6th done with the steel suspension arms. > > > > -- > Clark in Georgia > M4 Sherman > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
