Paul
The way I did the continuous tie downs was to draw a line where I wanted them, no mean feat but you can do this part, erase and do it again, until you get it right. I then got out my calipers and tried to determine the exact spacing of those pins and then I drilled tiny holes along my line at the correct distances to accept the pins. This didn't work. Somehow the pins and the holes never lined up properly so I glued one and then drilled again and filled and drilled until the end, a bit of a mess. If I had my time back I'd have used Gaitor glue instead of cyano so the mess I created could be cleaned up easily with water on an old brush.
Once the tie downs are removed from the sheet there is no way to have them straight until they are glued down so measure the pins on the fret before you remove them, it'll be more accurate that way. I would have determined the dimensions between the pins with dividers and then drill the holes larger than necessary to afford some wiggle room knowing that I could fill the holes later. If you glue just the pins in the holes you'll then be able to go back after and take the wow out along the course, then glue down the sections to ensure they are straight. This is place I wish I'd known about Gaitor glue. Apply it, straighten the course and wipe off the extra and you have a clean secure join.
Can you tell this was an issue?
I am sold on the Mouse House tie downs, just bought 4 more sheets of their new continuous tie downs for a few other project I have like my Canadian Bison and hopefully an ASLAV 25 sometime soon.
My last thought on this that it would be nice for Mouse House to tell you what the distance is between pins, that would help a lot.
Regards
Bill

Paul,
Nice bit of fabrication there, very nice and clean indeed. And what's up with your photos? New camera? Great photos as well.
Bill

and those nice little Mig PE Rivets which were reviewed here recently (they're great).

Andy,

Very nice update...keep it going.

Mouse House Enterprises do make resin side turret baskets for their ASLAV 25 conversion....I do believe they are the same as on the LAV III and Coyote.

With Trumpeter's LAV III and ASLAV 25.....hopefully eventually coming down and out of the pipe.....there should be some opportunites for plastic turret baskets.

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I changed the mounting attachment points on my ASLAV (right hand side of box) the other day. I was able to reuse the shaved off attachmnet points and attached them with Gator Glue, no problem.

Thanks Ray,

so those Phase III's in Afghanistan have the same bins as your picture do they ?

If they do then I think the Trumpeter Bin is more accurate.

Paul