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| Subject: | Re: KV details |  |
| Date: | Feb 20, 2008 |
| From: | Neil Stokes | |
Hi Arun,
The inside of the escape hatch is a mystery. The escape hatch is definitely not the same pattern as the upper hatch...for a start, it's smaller. The bolt patterns on the exterior of the hatch imply that the locking mechanism inside was not the same as the upper hatch either. I haven't been able to find any wartime photographs that show the interior of the hatch cover, and I haven't (yet) been able to persuade any museum staff to let me get inside one of the preserved examples, so I can't be sure.
Factory drawings show the escape hatch was not hinged, but was secured by six dogging clips spaced equally around it's circumference, which were attached to a ring inside the hatch opening. The ring was initially attached by eighteen bolts according to factory drawings, but that was later reduced to nine judging by the bolt holes on the underside of the Aberdeen and Bovington vehicles.
Neil |
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 | KV engine screens; available kits - Bill Goodrich - Feb 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: KV engine screens; available ones - Alex Borsboom - Feb 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: KV engine screens; available ones [IMG] - konrad - Feb 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: KV engine screens; available kits - Bill Goodrich - Feb 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: KV engine screens; available kits - Roy A. Schlicht - Feb 14, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: KV engine screens; available kits - Bill Goodrich - Feb 14, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Aber set supplies both types. - Alex Borsboom - Feb 14, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: KV engine screens; available kits - Roy A. Schlicht - Feb 14, 2008 |
| . . . Re: KV engine screens; flat vs round - long - Neil Stokes - Feb 15, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: KV engine screens; flat vs round - long - frank Glackin - Feb 16, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: KV book - Neil Stokes - Feb 17, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: KV book - Bill Goodrich - Feb 17, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: mention of a KV book - Arun Bauer - Feb 19, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: mention of a KV book - Neil Stokes - Feb 19, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: KV details - Arun Bauer - Feb 19, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: KV details - Neil Stokes - Feb 20, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: KV details, rearward machine gun psition - Arun Bauer - Feb 22, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: KV details, MG position and belly hatch - Neil Stokes - Feb 23, 2008 |
| . . . Re: KV engine screens; available kits - Bill Goodrich - Feb 16, 2008 |
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