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AFV Club "new" M113 tracks set : Watch out !!
Frenchy
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Posted: Friday, March 12, 2004 - 07:30 AM UTC
I've just received this set (#AF35S22) and I can tell you that the individual track links that are supposed to be workable (It's written on the box) are NOT workable In fact this set is just a reissue of the one that can be found for instance in the AFV Club M548A1 kit...

Or maybe it's just I haven't discovered the way to keep them workable once glued...

Frenchy (about to order a Modelkasten M113 workable track links set...)

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Posted: Friday, March 12, 2004 - 11:46 AM UTC


Order Fruil's instead. You won't regret it.
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Posted: Friday, March 12, 2004 - 02:31 PM UTC
I think that the only way AFV Club tracks can be workable is if you just click the end connnectors in place without gluing. This is often easier said than done since the end connectors can be too loose to stay in place. This doesn't always happen (their M1A1/2 Bigfoot tracks were a dream) but it happens often enough to be annoying.
dsmith
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Posted: Friday, March 12, 2004 - 02:45 PM UTC
Yeah, I haven't tried the M-113 tracks, but the M-41 tracks were great. Just dump them out of the bag, snap them together, and boom! A great set of workable tracks. Don't glue them though, and be careful, because the plastic does have a tendancy to break.
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Posted: Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 12:05 AM UTC
I have so far found none of the AfV club tracks to stay together with just the end connector pushed on as soon as you turn them the whole thing falls apart.
As said the M41 tracks were great and stay together!

Friul makes them also for the Bucket M-113 tracks
Sabot
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Posted: Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 01:54 AM UTC
Are these different from AFV Club's original M113 tracks #AF3501? Those tracks are not workable and are the same as the ones that are included in the M548A1 kit (I have both kits).
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Posted: Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 06:42 AM UTC

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I think that the only way AFV Club tracks can be workable is if you just click the end connnectors in place without gluing.



The only problem with M113 tracks is that they don't have end connectors...

Rgds,
Pawel
Frenchy
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Posted: Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 07:46 PM UTC

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Are these different from AFV Club's original M113 tracks #AF3501? Those tracks are not workable and are the same as the ones that are included in the M548A1 kit (I have both kits).


Hi Rob
No, that's the same set ! Next time I will be more cautious (online ordering has some drawbacks ) ....Curiously, their set for M109 (ex-Skybow) has fully workable track links but it is not mentionned in the set designation.

Frenchy
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