Friuli -- major tread problem

Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Friuli -- major tread problem

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 7, 2004 11:27 AM

I've noticed as I put my Panther treads together that they are curving. The length is not flat, it arcs in a certain direction. I am becoming alarmed, as with every degree of arc the chance of a flat sit on the wheels decreases.

Any ideas on why this is happening or what I can do to stop it?

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spector822002

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December 2003
From: Southern Maine

Posted by spector822002 on Saturday, February 7, 2004 11:53 AM

Larry: they all do that it is normal ,,,,,, the difference between right and left side , on the vehicle you will not notice . Whatever you do , don't try to straighten them ! Black Eye [B)]

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 7, 2004 12:04 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by spector822002

Larry: they all do that it is normal ,,,,,, the difference between right and left side , on the vehicle you will not notice . Whatever you do , don't try to straighten them !

I have them on my Tiger II, and they did not do that. Hmmm.

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spector822002

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December 2003
From: Southern Maine

Posted by spector822002 on Saturday, February 7, 2004 12:10 PM

yea , I can't remember my tigers , it was a bit ago , but I have done 2 sets of panther and they both did it , and my panzer 3 did it as well . What I do with all my sets is test fit them first before painting leaving a couple links unglued with long wires , if the fit is good , remove them paint em ' they look so darn pretty as is ! But no tank has sterling silver treads ! Cool [8D]

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 7, 2004 7:59 PM

My Panther set curved some as well, It is unnoticeable on the tank. Also, as the were handled the amount of curve diminished.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 7, 2004 8:14 PM

im yet to start on my set of Frui tracks, hope you get them sorted

Claymore theres a nice scotish flag on here http://www.fg-a.com/flags4.shtml
its where i got my English flag from

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 7, 2004 8:53 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by claymore68

My Panther set curved some as well, It is unnoticeable on the tank. Also, as the were handled the amount of curve diminished.

Ok, thanks Claymore. It might even be a way they have of making the treads cling tothe wheels. I wonder why my Tiger II treads were straight? Then again, they were the older Friul set.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 7, 2004 11:08 PM

they did the same thing with my panther set , don't worry about it , they where fine when i dry fitted them to see.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 8, 2004 8:59 AM

They also do that with the Pz IV tracks. Ive built about 5 or 6 of the Tigers and none of them did that either. At first i thought I was doing somethingw rong too, but with each set I kep realizing it didnt hurt anything.

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mark956

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February 2003
From: USA

Posted by mark956 on Sunday, February 8, 2004 10:43 AM

Thanks for the heads up. I have fruil tracks for my Panzer 4G
mark956

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wipw

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January 2003
From: Utah - USA

Posted by wipw on Sunday, February 8, 2004 7:49 PM

The only set of Friul tracks I've done were for my PzII. I didn't have any problems like that with them. The only big problem I had was that the teeth on the Tamiya drive sprockets were a different distance appart than the spacing on the links. Easily fixed with a set of Friul metal sprockets!

Good luck with them.

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