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Leopard C2 Mexas mine plough question
momcha
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Nis, Serbia & Montenegro
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Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2014 - 08:15 AM UTC
Hello, I need little help. I saw pictures of Canadian Leopard C2 Mexas in Afghanistan with American mine plough, same as on Abrams tanks. Is it the same mine plough as Dragon gives in old box with M1A1 kit or some modifications must be made? And if is the same, where should I put "wire" control, that on M1A1 is controled by driver? Thank you.





junglejim
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Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2014 - 09:47 AM UTC
Hello Ivan,
The Canadian plow is a bit different - the frames that support the plow heads are made out of square tube (all the kit versions are the round US style) and there are only five tines rather than six. The electrical cable is protected by a guard (visible in your bottom photo) and runs to a dedicated junction box.





The connection box, plugs are at the back end:


Cheers,
Jim

LeoCmdr
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Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2014 - 10:44 AM UTC
You can check out Sven's build for reference....

http://www.track-link.com/gallery/3333

http://www.track-link.com/gallery/6308

Walter did a great job too...

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/140219&page=1

If you are patient you might see a specific mine plough for the Leopard 1 as a kit in the future.
momcha
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Posted: Monday, April 21, 2014 - 09:33 AM UTC
Thank you very much, this will help me a lot.

cheers
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