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[Chris Werb]

What are/we're vacuum wipers?

[Ken Estes]

 

We need to get The Chieftain into a Type 95 Ha-Go, preferably one that has both the gun and the turret machinegun intact and in place.

I wouldn't mind a review of the Tiger II.

 

Not a video, but more detailed, I did a crawl-through of the Saumur Tiger II in 2015 and described it with attention to crew positions and 23 color plates, including views taken through the driver and commander periscopes:  

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[Ken Estes]

What are/we're vacuum wipers?

 

Ha! you're not so old after all. These wipers were operated using engine vacuum taken from the manifold to power the pivot arm, switching direction at each sweep using alternating valves. They disappeared by the early 70s.

[rmgill]

[shep854]

What are/we're vacuum wipers?

 
Ha! you're not so old after all. These wipers were operated using engine vacuum taken from the manifold to power the pivot arm, switching direction at each sweep using alternating valves. They disappeared by the early 70s.

And as engine RPM decreased, so did the vacuum, and hence the wiper speed. On a step grade, they would stop altogether. No fun in the rain.

[Chris Werb]

OK, I've learned something new today 😊

[Chris Werb]

Fascinating.

[Tim the Tank Nut]

in good operating order they work fine

[TonyE]

Crusader part 2 is out, the Chieftain is somewhat less than impressed with certain aspects of the interior :

[shep854]

It looks tiny with him standing next to it. I would think that seven-round rack forward of the TC position would go, right away

[rmgill]

The oil changes may have been due to no bypass type oil filter system and desert conditions.

[shep854]

Wartime lube probably wasnt the highest quality either; just good enough. Also, those engines (and the tanks themselves) werent expected to last very long.

Edited by shep854, 10 August 2018 - 1420 PM.

[TonyE]

More Hatch(!)

Chieftain tours the M5A1 Stuart:

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[rmgill]

Also the oil filters...wait..

Manic, are you sure the pointer on the lube chart wasn't specifying the change of the oil in the air filter oil bath? Because I think that IS every 500 miles for Vandal. That's like 1/8th a quart on our vehicle. Probably more on a tank but not more than a quart.

[Markus Becker]

First the Crusader and now the Stuart?!? Someone is binge posting.

[shep854]

I didn't know the Marines operated M5s.  With Nick for scale, the Stuart is much bigger than the Crusader.

[Manic Moran]

Also the oil filters...wait..

Manic, are you sure the pointer on the lube chart wasn't specifying the change of the oil in the air filter oil bath? Because I think that IS every 500 miles for Vandal. That's like 1/8th a quart on our vehicle. Probably more on a tank but not more than a quart.

 

Without climbing back into the thing, I won't swear on my grandmother's grave on the matter, no.

[TonyE]

The Chieftain enjoys the interior of the M5A1 :

 

(Bonus for the hardcore fans near the end btw)

Edited by TonyE, 15 August 2018 - 1650 PM.

[DogDodger]

To this day the only tank I've ever ridden in is the M5A1, thanks to our own Tim the Tank Nut back at the 2002 I&I at Ft. Knox (16 years ago! Crazy!). I was in the TC's seat and Sargent was in the gunner's spot for about 10 yards when the machine conked out due, as Tim researched later, to a sticking fuel check valve. He's such a nice guy that he then got out his M114 so we could ride in that instead! The Stuart turret certainly was cramped!

Edited by DogDodger, 15 August 2018 - 1919 PM.

[Harold Jones]

I believe it was Geoff who said that the M5 was the perfect Starter Tank for the beginning collector.