It's a T001 track and it simply wore out because of excessive use over 8
years of battling.
The root cause was a lack of glue and an insufficient number of rivets
on one of the treads across the splice. Over time, the linear stress
(along the track) on the track caused the sole rivet holding the end of
the splice to rip through the belt (the rivet hole was very close to the
end of the belt). Once the end of the splice pulled out from under the
tread, it probably got caught along the hull and it tore across the
width of the track. If more rivets were used along the splice or glue
was placed on all the splice treads (it was only used on a couple), then
the problem would not have occurred.
Fortunately, all other tracks made since that first set have been glued
and riveted in multiple places, so we're expecting 10+ years of battling
out of them.
Frank P.
On 6/12/2012 12:37 PM, Neil Rochford wrote:
amazing !!
I cant work out how this track snapped or whos tank this is, looking at
the pictures it must have taken an almighty force to break like that.
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