Track Pins

[Hendrik van Oorspronk]

Originally Posted by Marc van Aalderen

Eventually we will have to look into getting links cast and pins fabricated. More Carriers emerge from the woods, literally, and are without tracks or have completely worn out tracks. Most of these woodlogging carriers were worked hard I imagine till some expensive or hard to find part finally gave in and then they were left to rot. I once looked at one of those and counted just 153 links in the tracks. That is 4 less then what the Army considered worn out!!

I use my carrier regularly and will wear out the tracks one day, same as most of us who use it as what it was made for and not as a static display piece...
With worn tracks it will end as just that!

Cheers,

Hello Marc,

Here the same, the tracks will wear out, casting new links should not be that expensive, when the numbers are high enough. There was someone on the forum who has spend some time in looking for casting new links.

Cheers

Hendrik

[Lynn Eades]

His resources, along with his standards, mean that you would never see a carrier of his with track as bad as that.

[Stew Robertson]

How many miles are you guys going to drive these carrieres? I have rebuilt n more carrier track than most have you have seen Ream the F**^ ING HOLE OUT AAND PUT NEW PINS IN> THE STREERING WILL WORK AS IT WAS INTENDED ! if you don,t wan't to listen that is fine it is your carrier and your money...

[peter simundson]

....settle down Stew....this isn't good for your heart.

A guy your age shouldn't get so upset.

Hee Hee Hee

Peter S

[SDeMocko]

I took a carrier pin to work where we have a scanner that is supposed to be able to tell what kind of material something is made from. See the attached pic, something called 3115. I am not sure if this helps or fuel the controversy.

Stephen
'44 MKII
Orange County, CA, USA

[RichardT10829]

Nice work Stephen..... As Marc said earlier I can vouch for the ex log skidder carriers being worked to death as mine was one....160 links per side on mine but they a shot to bits... They lean heavily towards the diff, or did when they were last on, I am busy working with a local engineering firm to work around re using worn out track to see if we can build a sacrificial lug something along the lines of drilling out and tapping the original material then screwing in a sacrificial core for the pin to slide through....then when that wears out you just replace the cores. From the outside the track looks as it should... There are a plethora of hurdles to overcome though but the chap is a clever bloke so I am sure he will come up with something.