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A question about Sherman tracks
Posted by GMorrison on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 3:11 PM

Can you please tell me whats going on here with this Sherman/ AMX track?

I would guess that either it had rubber shoes and they burned/ disappeared; or it had metal shoes and someone took 'em.

Thank you!

Here's the one at Latrun.

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    November 2004
  • From: Cat Central, NC
Posted by Bronto on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 3:15 PM

The rubber has burned off.  What you are seeing is the metal "skeleton" of the track that the rubber is vulcanized around.

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Posted by GMorrison on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 3:20 PM

Thanks!

So, my Dragon M4A4 has T-48 tracks, I believe (I'm new to this, but try to do some research before asking questions). A look at a Sherman Track web page (cool cuz it has pictures) shows that one, and it's rubber. So it's all correct, I hope for this particular tank. I can't see what is on the museum one, and they might not even be otriginal.

Thank you for the help!

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    November 2005
Posted by T26E4 on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 7:15 PM

Sherman tracks (except for the CDP ones) were interchangable.    The Latrun AMX shows an M4A4 chassis with T51 smooth face rubber tracks.  The burnt skeletons were appropriate for those tracks that were all encased in rubber (T41, T51 and T48).  Others were all metal or composite metal & rubber and would look different if burned away.  A plastic set of burnt skeletons is available from Panda Plastics.

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