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Post Info TOPIC: Please Help - A7V Track & Drive info


Corporal

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Please Help - A7V Track & Drive info
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I'm trying to figure out where the A7V's drive sprocket grips the track, (pity me, I don't have access to Whitmore or Hundleby & Strasheim nor do I have the AU$300plus needed to purchase them).  I've looked over several photographs and diagrams and the only conclusion I could come to was that the link pin for each track also served as the lug.  This seems problematic however, as placing the load across the pin would surely put extra force on this crucial link.  Does anyone have this info?



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It is the link pin, but not 'naked'. - The pin sat in a round casing and that casing served as the lug.

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Thanks MZ, you don't know how much of a huge help that is!

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The Renault FT family used the same principle as can be discerned by the chunky drive sprocket. I think our Rhomboids might have done as well, though the sprocket teeth seem finer IIRC.

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I can confirm that the A7V used the system whereby the teeth engaged the casing of the track pin. The Sprocket had ninteen teeth.

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