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Father and I are getting going again. Ot a little as these were often used as tractor after the war.
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Cool project, wish I had one. What is the purpose of the drum like roller on the front? Go up and over defensive positions?
 
Yep just love that M-3. Hope I have this right. The tracks were made by Goodyear and basically are a giant rubber band with a couple steel cables inside. Over 70 years and those rubber bands are still going. Used to know a junkyard that had a couple of scrap ones sitting out back. There are a lot of videos on U'tube. Here is how fast two guys can change a track. Shoot even I can do it now. Have fun with your project.
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The m3 was a little longer. This is an m2. Halftracks are hard to find parts for. We have been building up parts for years and still don?t have everything. We are picking up a new set of tracks.
 
Ahhhh ok. Thought all were m3. That is like watching the mid 60s TV show Rat Patrol and all of the the German stuff is American with a German paint job. Even the movie Patton has just loads of wrong equipment. Now with enough restored equipment and CG you can build an entire division in a computer like magic. Did you watch the video on how to change your tracks ? Enjoy your toy.
 
Here is another video were you almost are. I have read that Israel has lots full of them. They are such fantastic, tough, and reliable vehicles. Also just love the German multitracs. What a beast pulling your 88mm flack gun down the street.
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One more. Here is another training film about the bogie itself. Movie is with Goodrich not Goodyear. Oh well. Still would love to own one.
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Keep up the good work. Don’t you like the windup in the tracks when you let out the clutch? You have a long ways to go but when it’s done you will have a gem. The m3 I did was made by Autocar. The owner I restored it for knew where to look to tell the difference. It had something to do with front bumper braces. The majority of this design were made by White but the autocar and diamond t built m3’s were identical with a White engine and New Process (I think) power train. When you get to working with body parts they are armor plate and can’t be drilled. A drill bit just makes a shiny spot and gets nowhere. The body is bolted together with 3/8” fine thread flat head flush mount bolts but the slotted face of the bolt is rounded a little so finding replacements can be a challenge if you want to be a purist. The one I did had the roller also but we put a winch on it. We got the winch and PTO off a ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
 
(quoted from post at 20:09:43 10/20/18) Keep up the good work. Don’t you like the windup in the tracks when you let out the clutch? You have a long ways to go but when it’s done you will have a gem. The m3 I did was made by Autocar. The owner I restored it for knew where to look to tell the difference. It had something to do with front bumper braces. The majority of this design were made by White but the autocar and diamond t built m3’s were identical with a White engine and New Process (I think) power train. When you get to working with body parts they are armor plate and can’t be drilled. A drill bit just makes a shiny spot and gets nowhere. The body is bolted together with 3/8” fine thread flat head flush mount bolts but the slotted face of the bolt is rounded a little so finding replacements can be a challenge if you want to be a purist. The one I did had the roller also but we put a winch on it. We got the winch and PTO off a ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
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Excuse me, the one I restored was a Diamond T, not autocar.
 
(quoted from post at 12:44:46 10/20/18) Father and I are getting going again. Ot a little as these were often [b:46938ca895]used as tractor after the war[/b:46938ca895].]

My Grandpa and Uncle each "roaded" a halftrack from Pueblo, Co. to their place south of Syracuse, Kan., post WW-2. According to my dad, they found out rather quickly that they wouldn't work, pulling the one-ways used in dryland wheat country. They kept throwing tracks.

Some of my very earliest memories of playing around grandpa's buildings was finding the bits and pieces of the two half tracks. One of them was still in pretty good shape (in the early 60's) and I thought it should be put back together. I know one of the engines repowered an old combine of my uncle's. It was still cutting oats (barley?) in North Dakota in 1969!
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Very cool project.

FWIW: Almost every plant that could produce trucks, tanks, cannons, aircraft and any other materials went over to that type of production. In most cases these companies were allowed to continue some production of their primary products. Heck the Singer sewing machine people made M1911 .45 ACP pistols.

Rick
 
I read last week that singer made a sample
run of M1911's. They could not meet
production quotas. Their quality was
superior though. War department had them
making bomb sights as more precision was
required for them. International Harvestor
made M1 rifles. Maybe singer did too. John
Deere made tank transmissions. Ford made
airplanes, I think.
 
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