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 Subject:  Best guessList thread.  
  
 Date:  Apr 26, 2006
 From:  Kip Rudge 
In all likelihood those parts that needed close tolerances got them - ie weapons, drive trains, engines. But welding four or five huge slabs of rolled steel together to form the hull of the vehicle didn't get the caliper treatment. Given the state of wartime production in Germany, if it rolled out the door, worked on the test track, the weapon fired and it didn't catch fire it was probably accepted by the Army.
If you read the engineering reports of the U.S., Britsh and Russians, they just aren't to impressed with the maufacturing aspects of these vehicles. The guns were impressive but most of these vehicles couldn't drive around the block without engine or drive train problems.
The same applies to the metallurgy. The Britsh were espcially skeptical.
The dimensional holy grail probably doesn't exist in general. So to be perfect one would have to measure one vehicle and model only that specific vehicle..... interesting.
 
Thread Listing 
  What is acceptable reference? - Paul A. Owen - Apr 25, 2006
. . . Re: Pz. IV C plans test - Paul A. Owen - Apr 25, 2006
. . . LOL - John F. Steinman - Apr 25, 2006
. . . . . . Re: What is the Standard - Paul A. Owen - Apr 25, 2006
. . . . . . . . . Re: What is the Standard - John F. Steinman - Apr 25, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . not interchangable? - Steve C - Apr 25, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: not interchangable? - John F. Steinman - Apr 25, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: not interchangable? - Paul A. Owen - Apr 25, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . poor quality control :-) - Steve C - Apr 25, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: poor quality control :-) - Paul A. Owen - Apr 25, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: not interchangable? - Steve C - Apr 25, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: What is the Standard - Bill Goodrich - Apr 25, 2006
. . . Re: What is acceptable reference? - Gerald Owens - Apr 25, 2006
. . . Tiger 1 examples... - David Byrden - Apr 26, 2006
. . . . . . Re: Tiger 1 examples... - frank forster - Apr 26, 2006
. . . . . . . . . Re: Tiger 1 examples... - John Yergin - Apr 26, 2006
. . . . . . . . . Re: Back to the point... - Paul A. Owen - Apr 26, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Back to the point... - frank forster - Apr 26, 2006
. . . . . . Potential After-market Kits. - Paul A. Owen - Apr 26, 2006
. . . Best guess - Kip Rudge - Apr 26, 2006
. . . Re: What is acceptable reference? - John F. Steinman - Apr 26, 2006
. . . . . . Re: What is acceptable reference? - Paul A. Owen - Apr 26, 2006
. . . . . . . . . Re: What is acceptable reference? - John F. Steinman - Apr 26, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: scale - Paul A. Owen - Apr 26, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . One more thing related to the above - John Steinman - Apr 26, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: One more thing related to the above - Paul A. Owen - Apr 26, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tolerances, etc... - christopher benjamin - Apr 26, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: One more thing related to the above - John F. Steinman - Apr 27, 2006
. . . Re: What is acceptable reference? - Steve Frost - Apr 27, 2006
. . . When you get right down to it...only the original mfgr's drawings are correct! - Scott A. Bregi - Apr 27, 2006
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