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Hub on IPM1 Abrams drive sprocket
tanknick22
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Posted: Sunday, October 22, 2017 - 02:57 PM UTC
Im building a IPMI and im wondering if it had the original hub on the drive sprocket as the M1 or did it have the little x shaped hub and on the M1A1 drive sprocket and it it have the track retaining ring on the drive sprocket
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Posted: Sunday, October 22, 2017 - 03:42 PM UTC

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Im building a IPMI and im wondering if it had the original hub on the drive sprocket as the M1 or did it have the little x shaped hub and on the M1A1 drive sprocket and it it have the track retaining ring on the drive sprocket

Define IPM1. If you mean the real IP, i.e. an uparmored tank with enlarged turret then it most likely should have later M1A1-style sprocket hub. I think the new hubs appeared late in the M1 production, before the switch to IPM1.

And IP originally had retainer rings.
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Posted: Sunday, October 22, 2017 - 03:47 PM UTC

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Im building a IPMI and im wondering if it had the original hub on the drive sprocket as the M1 or did it have the little x shaped hub and on the M1A1 drive sprocket and it it have the track retaining ring on the drive sprocket

Define IPM1. If you mean the real IP, i.e. an uparmored tank with enlarged turret then it most likely should have later M1A1-style sprocket hub. I think the new hubs appeared late in the M1 production, before the switch to IPM1.


yes thats it and what about the track retaining ring on the sprocket?
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Posted: Sunday, October 22, 2017 - 03:53 PM UTC

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yes thats it ans what about the track retaining ring on the sprocket?


They originally had them
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