As some of you may know I remodelled my Gav plate on the top of a large bank. Whilst I had the plate off today to change the CD seals, I remodelled it back again with a sledgehammer and a pair of earmuffs. An old deaf lady in the next village did make a complaint though.
Looking at the leg, quite a bit of the remodelling occurred there, not just in the plate itself. So I stuck an extra brace in there like this.
The plate does flex a bit and I know that Gav has been experimenting with some discarded Chobam armour off a Challenger tank. I think that there is a possibility to put in a small second leg coming off one of the Tcase bolts. There is a little metal deflector plate held on with 3 x 8mm bolts that do nothing else. This could be semi sacrificial rather than made out of girders. The plate can actually twist under impact which allows it to distort. I don't think it will take much to stop that twist.
Chris
Looking at the leg, quite a bit of the remodelling occurred there, not just in the plate itself. So I stuck an extra brace in there like this.
The plate does flex a bit and I know that Gav has been experimenting with some discarded Chobam armour off a Challenger tank. I think that there is a possibility to put in a small second leg coming off one of the Tcase bolts. There is a little metal deflector plate held on with 3 x 8mm bolts that do nothing else. This could be semi sacrificial rather than made out of girders. The plate can actually twist under impact which allows it to distort. I don't think it will take much to stop that twist.
Chris