Curt;

I would take a close look at some photos and see which way the link-details orient on the "real things" - typically, Tiger "mirrored" tracks had the link "spade" on the lead edge on both sides as the tank moved forward. "Non-Mirrored sets" would have the "spade" forward on the left, but spade to the rear on the right (or maybe the other way?? in any case, one run going "forward", 1 reversed.) I suspect that there may have been some "manual instruction" that said something like "left runs forward!", but... :-)

If we were talking transport tracks - as the links have no asymmetrical extension to the outside, both runs could be put on using the same run-direction with simply inserting track pins from the opposite sides as needed. I would suppose that some of these transport tracks were installed "reversed", and in some cases runs may have run opposite directions on a tank, as there would have been no real need to put them on one way or the other.

Cheers! Bob

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Curt;

I would take a close look at some photos and see which way the link-details orient on the "real things" - typically, Tiger "mirrored" tracks had the link "spade" on the lead edge on both sides as the tank moved forward. "Non-Mirrored sets" would have the "spade" forward on the left, but spade to the rear on the right (or maybe the other way?? in any case, one run going "forward", 1 reversed.) I suspect that there may have been some "manual instruction" that said something like "left runs forward!", but... :-)

If we were talking transport tracks - as the links have no asymmetrical extension to the outside, both runs could be put on using the same run-direction with simply inserting track pins from the opposite sides as needed. I would suppose that some of these transport tracks were installed "reversed", and in some cases runs may have run opposite directions on a tank, as there would have been no real need to put them on one way or the other.

Cheers! Bob

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Bob,

When you are referring to the 'spade', I presume you are talking about the 'male' parts of the link; if so, that matches the description that David Byrden pointed out about the front picture on the Fruil ATL-116 tracks (which is indeed the tracks that I have and will be using). I think this points the way I need to orient the tracks...thanks to all of you!