The Tread Thread

[Nitro]

 

[Nitro]

1924 Citroen Autochenille

 

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[Rodafina]

Are these current or new photos? I am so jealous. It would be so lovely to walk around outside and look at treads, but it is still winter here and the weather is just unpleasant for that sort of thing.

 

[Nitro]

Are these current or new photos? I am so jealous. It would be so lovely to walk around outside and look at treads, but it is still winter here and the weather is just unpleasant for that sort of thing.

Those were captured yesterday.
It was an unseasonably warm 73F in Brownsville, so I took advantage of some of the day to wander around a little on foot.

The building on the right houses our 1905 Bessemer natural gas pumping engine and our Fairbanks Morse 3 cylinder that once ran an electrical generating plant.

One of my first tasks as a machinist for the association was refitting a bore and making a new poppet valve and stem for the gas mixer on the Bessemer.
I have a few photos of the mixer assembly that were captured on my kitchen floor.

 

[Nitro]

This machine can be set to hold a grade

 

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[Rodafina]

The Airoll

Amphibious Treads

http://www.sixmania.fr/en/airoll/

 

[Judge]

Some splendid examples of tread oxidation in earlier times. Clearly something experienced in damp, wet and frozen environments.

In extremely hot and dry climates with minimal precipitation, would relatively new tracks stayed more of a dark grey color on parts not touching the ground or worn through friction with other parts?

Simply put, did most tanks in Rommel's Afrika Korps have similar tread wear as their European counterparts on the battlefields of Libya and Egypt in particular?

 

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[Rodafina]

Outstanding shot, @Nitro!