Tracks

[RichardT10829]

likewise stick me down for a set...... pending on costs of course

[martyn]

I have a new unused track link thats not a T16 one going to get a price for a patten and just take things from there will be a few weeks, will keep you all informed on how or if this project is going.

[Adame]

Hi Marty

What country are you in?

Cheers
Adam

[RichardT10829]

Good old Blighty Lives Mid / South England (lincoln way if i recall correctly)

last quote i got for one set was 10k based on 336 links being cast, machined and repinned. The foundry said the more they get the cheaper they are, could not work that out in my head but apparently more is less as they say

i have got some excelent condition links Martyn if you need anymore.

[martyn]

Hi
Iam located in Lincoln, England.

[ron]

Hi Richard and Martyn,
On the subject of new track, I have just put a complete N.O.S set of track on my Met gas carrier it came in sections of 21 links complete with its original tags,so far its not even moved ten feet on this track, at those prices I may have to rip it off and flog it off, just joking of course. It had sat in a shed for over thirty years befor I found it, In all the years that I have been restoring carriers this is only the second set of new track that I have ever found, the other set I also owned is on a carrier that I restored,its now in a museum,and thats only done about two hundred yards in its life .
Regards Ron

[RichardT10829]

the casting is the easy part, its the machining that makes it so damned expensive, pitty knowone here in england is connected to a precision engineers.......... if we all chipped in for the cutting bits for a machine, it would drastically reduce the costs of making new track.......

on a tangent here :-
I am a member of www.turbominis.co.uk which is a performance based forum for old Minis, the lads there are pioneering new methods of getting 200+bhp out of mini's which is not a cheap hobby, what happens is they all club together pooling skills and money to prototype, produce and distribute performance equipment (ie you end up with top notch kit for rock bottom prices)


so far in the classic MV community i have never seen this pheonomenon, and i dont want to sound insulant or cheeky or even cause any offence....but it seems most are out to make a lot of bucks its very much "business is business"...... information is striclty need to know, very cloak and dagger. I put this down to there not being enough bits for everyone so it is an expensive fight to get the bits, and when you find them they are sometimes so over the top with price.....


I open heartidly encourage and endorse what Martyn is trying to do here and i know from past experience the "Group Buy" method is a good way to go.
I deffinately know somewhere that would make the pins very very cheap..... Martyn knows a good foundry, all we need is a mates rates firm to machine the links then getting new track could be very affordable.......

Martyn will no doubt get back with a quote per set soon enough and we could go from there.



edit: just a warning if anyone does click on the blue link be aware that Turbo minis is also global forum....but is very outspoken, lots of sarcasm...it even has a sisters pictures section ! so if your easily offended dont click on that link !