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E50 / E75 suspension details?
belcherbits
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Posted: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 08:20 AM UTC
I know they weren't real but some references talk about the general construction of the proposed suspension units.
Has anybody ever seen any sketches / drawings as to what these Belleville washer spring units might have looked like for these?
I'm guessing they were quite different in concept from the E-100.
Graywolfgang
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Posted: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 09:41 AM UTC
Hay mike

Get a copy of Spielberger's book Panther and its Variants. It has some good pictures (drawings) of the conical disk spring running gear for theE-50 / 75.

Wolf
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Posted: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 02:55 PM UTC
Wolf;
Great, thanks. Will do.
Mike
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Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 09:40 PM UTC
Hi Mike,
I'm sure that by now you'd have gotten your answers, but I'll take a chance.
The suspension for the E50/ E75 was not too different from the King Tiger.....
But....where as the King Tiger was "interleaved" with 5 outside and 4 inside wheels.......
(as viewed from the left or right side)
the E-50/E75 was set up with what I beleave to be 3 sets/pairs of road wheels with a noticeable gap between each pair, plus.....they left off the outside sets (like on the Sturm Tiger), leaving one to think that some wheels are missing.
I would attach pic's but I am in Iraq right now and don't have access to my data base.
Ken
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