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| Subject: | The ultimate in nitpicking (2) |  |
| Date: | Jan 1, 2005 |
| From: | Kurt Laughlin | |
1. The NMSC-Cicero foundry symbol is incorrect. It should be an H inside of a C, not two mirror image Ds. See
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/spoelstra/g104/foundry.htm
2. For some variety, you could add a small rectangular pad on the right (dark) wing. There were NMSC-Cicero bogies with the circles and no pad, with only the pad, and with both, and with neither.
4. There should be some small marks alonside the center two webs.
5. The foundry marking on the arm should be OSF, not OSE (Ordnance Steel Foundries).
6. The circular knockout marks at the ends of the lever under the bolts that hold the wear pads should be removed.
7. The combination of the earlier skid and the spacer block under the roller was probably not as common as the late skid with spacer. The late skid came into production at the end of 1942 while the spacer modification didn't happen until the very end of July 1943. Although the combination is certainly possible, it was the extreme wear of the earlier skids that lead to spacing the rollers in the first place. It looks like most of the earlier skids had been replaced by the late style by the time the spacers came along.
8. To go with an "early" theme, they probably should have used different arms that used screws in threaded holes to hold the rubbing plates rather than the later types with oval holes to allow nuts.
Note that the different markings on the ancillary parts in my earlier photo do not indicate anything wrong with the Tasco set. This is just one existing combination.
KL |
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| . . . Re: Tasca M4 Bogie kits - mike foncannon - Dec 30, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: Tasca M4 Bogie kits - Paul A. Owen - Dec 30, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: Tasca M4 Bogie kits - Mike Land - Dec 31, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Tasca M4 Bogie kits - Paul A. Owen - Dec 31, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . M4 Hybrid Bogeys - mike foncannon - Jan 1, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Thanks Mike n/t - Mike Land - Jan 1, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Tasca M4 Bogie kits - Leo Lee - Dec 31, 2004 |
| . . . Re: first image - Leo Lee - Jan 1, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: second image - Leo Lee - Jan 1, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . The ultimate in nitpicking (2) - Kurt Laughlin - Jan 1, 2005 |
| . . . . . . The ultimate in nitpicking (1) [IMG] - Kurt Laughlin - Jan 1, 2005 |
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