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Cubdriver:

--- Quote from: GerryBags on May 24, 2018, 04:04:46 am ---From what I've seen online (haven't opened it yet) the insides of the 3455A may well induce some wood.

Some great photos in those Volker Ruff books, plus all the necessary plans to build a Fries 16T gantry crane, should the need ever arise (?). I think the range of engines (and guns) they managed to shoe-horn into the Sherman is what it made it such a success. The Chrysler Multibank from the M4A4 has to be my favourite, even more than the radial. Five V8's on a common crank, genius!


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Close - it was five inline sixes geared together.  Definitely a pretty impressive piece of machinery!

-Pat

GerryBags:
Close, but no cigar, thanks Pat. I knew they were engines! I have a vague memory of making the same mistake before. Actually, I have a vague memory in general.

Cubdriver:

--- Quote from: GerryBags on May 24, 2018, 04:36:49 am ---Close, but no cigar, thanks Pat. I knew they were engines! I have a vague memory of making the same mistake before. Actually, I have a vague memory in general.

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Mine is normally like that, too, but I happened to have seen this particular powerplant recently during my net wanderings, so it was somewhat fresh in my otherwise addled brain.  Wartime needs certainly made for some novel engine designs.

-Pat

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: GerryBags on May 24, 2018, 01:40:58 am ---Well, my Ohmless 3455A turned up today. I'm cleaning off the layer of sticky orange goop covering the front panel, and all the buttons, before doing anything else. I's not a very heavy box, but it's 21" deep. I think this is going to necessitate yet another re-arrange of my bench.

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That's why I quickly started to hunt down a 3478A as its only 14" deep and half the width and has all the options built in as standard. I'm chuffed as fuck with mine now I have her calibrated at last. If you get all options plugged into the 3455A it will weigh a bloody ton so make sure have plenty of support strength in whatever you put it on.

From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]

bd139:
The 3478A is on the sweet spot between boringly innaccurate and voltnut crazy. It’s just right  ;D

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