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Question on M3 halftrack and M16 MGMC
Posted by Zero Enna on Thursday, November 1, 2012 9:28 AM

I've seen that some of them have a very large front bumper, and some have a roller-like bumper, it looks more like a counter-weight for me. Now, Is this a detail for "early" and "late" variants or something? In fact, I have an M16 in 1/76 (old Matchbox kit) and it has the big bumper. I heard about sub-variants like M16A1, M16A2 and M16A3, but don't know about the diferences, maybe mounted or "early" and "late" M3, I don't know. Any info will be appreciated. Best regards.

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Thursday, November 1, 2012 10:01 AM

The roller was added to assist in vehicles crossing ditches and trenches. The larger bumper often is set forward and a recovery wench is installed behind it.

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Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, November 1, 2012 1:41 PM

Rob Gronovius

The roller was added to assist in vehicles crossing ditches and trenches. The larger bumper often is set forward and a recovery wench is installed behind it.

Recovery "wench"? When did the Army start issuing those?Wink

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Posted by T26E4 on Thursday, November 1, 2012 3:33 PM

All M16 MGMCs would have mounted the larger winch equipped bumper.  Among the M3 Half tracks, there was variation.  It depended on the variant.

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Friday, November 2, 2012 12:23 AM

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Posted by mrmike on Friday, November 2, 2012 12:32 AM

Was there a manual describing how to mount he recovery wench?

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, November 2, 2012 3:28 AM

I bet the PM had that covered

 

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Posted by Delbert on Friday, November 2, 2012 6:38 PM

howdy.

Here is a link to a Walk around of a restored M3A  that was converted from a Korean M16A1.  There are a couple of close up photo's of the winch and another one or two of the front of the vehicle.

www.delbertsscalemodels.com/.../m3-halftrack-walkaround

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Posted by Shellback on Friday, November 2, 2012 8:43 PM

I forgot what i was going to say .........................

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