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Help: Sherman AFV Club T-80 Track ?
kingcrt
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Alabama, United States
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Posted: Sunday, September 26, 2004 - 09:19 AM UTC
I have a set of the AFC Club T-80 tracks for my M4A3E8 that I am building for the Remember Korea campaign. I finished cleaning them and assembled on track. I then cut off a 5 track segment and the end connectors slide of with the slightest touch. I have tried painting them to see if it would help and no it did not. Now I have tried to paint them with a very thin paint hopping it will seep in between the connector and stabilize them.

My question is has anyone used these before and if so have they had the same problem and how they fix it. I wound hate to try and assemble this in it current condition.

Thanks in advance,

Mike
shiryon
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Posted: Sunday, September 26, 2004 - 11:28 PM UTC
Itried these tracks out for my series of IDF Shermans . I even open all three sets to see if I had just one bad set. all of hte sets had the same problem the connectors just wouldnt hold. when I mentioned it here anumber of folks had the same problems . now I have all the spares to put on th ekits I need
ex-royal
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Posted: Monday, September 27, 2004 - 12:49 AM UTC
I have made a few sets of AFV club tracks and they are not workable out of the box. The only way to keep them workable is to put glue on the end pins on each track. Do not put anly glue on the rear pins and this will ensure the unglued pins will not fall off but the tracks will remain semi workable which is perfect for Sherman tracks since they are what is called "Live" track.
cheers,
Bryan
kingcrt
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Posted: Monday, September 27, 2004 - 05:40 AM UTC

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I have made a few sets of AFV club tracks and they are not workable out of the box. The only way to keep them workable is to put glue on the end pins on each track. Do not put anly glue on the rear pins and this will ensure the unglued pins will not fall off but the tracks will remain semi workable which is perfect for Sherman tracks since they are what is called "Live" track.
cheers,
Bryan



Bryan thanks for tip I will give this a try tonight.
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