VICKERS MK6B's resto

[colin jones]

Thanks for the info and link. I just got off the phone with Steve the owner of the engine and he informed me that it was indeed a industrial engine probably out of a compressor or similar and way bigger than the Vickers engine. I would still consider one if it had been of the same dimensions but again thanks for letting me know.
Colin.

[Tim Lovelock]

Originally Posted by colin jones

Thanks for the info and link. I just got off the phone with Steve the owner of the engine and he informed me that it was indeed a industrial engine probably out of a compressor or similar and way bigger than the Vickers engine. I would still consider one if it had been of the same dimensions but again thanks for letting me know.
Colin.

Hi Colin,

Thanks for the follow up.
I’m sure with the following you have there are many eyes looking out and ears to the ground.
You just never know your luck.

Cheers Tim

[colin jones]

I have done the spotlight brackets vent covers and the viewing port plates.

[colin jones]

Here i'm making the gun port elevation end plates which are laminated and riveted. I used my hole punch to press the rivets into a countersunk hole and ground off the excess to make a flat surface as that is what is required.

[colin jones]

This part required an external radius to match the pieces I had already made and there certainly is not a great deal of elevation for the guns. I could imagine if the tank went down a ditch or a smallish hill you would not be able to get the guns low or high enough to do any shooting. Perhaps they just stopped every time they wanted to empty their rounds at some thing. Anyway they are starting to look like Vickers turrets now but they will look better when I complete the gun ports.

[Russ Gregg]

It's really neat taking a picture of something and seeing it appear on the other side of the world a few days later.

[colin jones]

Russ, it is equally as cool to receive a picture from the other side of the world and be able to reproduce something without guessing. It certainly makes fabrication more accurate considering I had little to no information about the gun ports.