White M3A1 AOP Windshield and Door armour

[Big D]

Hi David and Robert

Sorry about the holdup in coming back to you. Have been flat out with work.

Thanks to you both for the photos. That has given me a real good idea to work from to make up some replacement braces. I have a pretty good idea now of how they are shaped and I will make something up, temporarily fit the guard and test the brace in place before finalising it.

[Big D]

Hi all,

I have the upper armour cut out for each door now as you can see in the picture. Thanks to all for the measurements to date.

I have the rear pistol port slide mounts here and have just managed to pick up the passenger side front guide with the down-lock bolt. I just need to find this guide for the driver’s side now.

If someone gets a few spare minutes can they please give me the dimensions of the pistol port slides?

Dave - I was going back over the posts in this thread and wanted to be sure of the location of the slide guides. Can I just confirm that this is what you had for the locations of the mounting holes for these guides:


A line drawn through the centres of the aft block guide mounting holes measures as being 1-1/8" aft of the rear edge of the opening with the hole centres 1-11/16" and 6-11/16" up the line from the lower edge.
Forward guide mounting hole centre line is 1-3/4" forward of forward edge of the opening with hole centres 4-3/8" and 10-1/2" up the line from the lower edge.

[motto]

Just got back from Corowa last night Darryl. Will check the dimensions in the next day or so.

David

[Big D]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the reply and the dimensions.

Very interesting about the front slide guides. I picked up the passenger side one for $45US and have the option on another passenger side one. I just wasn't sure how easy it would be to cut and reshape it and weld it all back together again so as to fit the drivers side. Was it straightforward?

[Big D]

Hi Robert

Thanks for that. It looks good. The first latch should be here in a couple of weeks and I think I might grab a second one of the same side and have a crack at what you've done. The price of these ones is $45USD which I think is not bad. I've seen these latches for as high as $75USD.

[Lynn Eades]

Darryl, there are some bits on ebay at the moment in Aust.

[motto]

Try this Darryl. I've measured as well as I can and it should be easy to follow.
A line drawn through the two upper hole centres is 2-5/16" above and parallel to the upper edge of the port cut-out.
A line drawn through the centres of the two forward holes is 1-3/4" forward of and parallel to the forward edge of the port cut-out.
The forward hole centres are 6" apart.
A line drawn through the centres of the two rear holes is 1-1/8" aft of and parallel to the aft edge of the port cut-out.
The rear hole centres are 5" apart.
Don't hesitate to ask if in doubt about any of this.

Dave