what the heck is this and what does it mean word for word follows

To reduce pressure resulated resulated from contact of the ground, VVSS system incorporates an arm. An arm is allways assembled outside of truck, the VVSS that includes drive sprocket & idler wheel has to be extended outside if the arm is assembled inside of track.

What are they trying to say do I need to raise or move the wheels out plus drive and idler. I wish they would let some people that have knowledge of the English Language write this stuff

I you thought that grijze cellen a little bit in de war waren..... #:-) #:-)

Sounds a lot like the assembly manual from a BBQ set that was translated from Korean in to English by a Nepalese translater who learned English in Paramaribo !

Sorry. English is not my mother tongue. I must admit that I have problems understanding technical texts too. Especially for such manuals where translation comes frighteningly close to the caricature situation above. Even if you understand all the individual words, the sentence remains a mistery. No language does that better than English !

Danny's grijze cellen are not at all in de war ! These must be secret instructions Al Qaeda is trying to pass on to its members through kit assembly instructions !

Jan

Coming to think of it, Jeff, why post this question on Scratchbuilding forum of all places. We scratchbuilders are dislectic or analphabetic, wordblind and understand no languages other than spoken language. That's why we love scratchbuilding so much : it comes without those dreadful instruction sheets !

Scratchbuilding starts with the instructionsheets.....

Insert A in stukje B und put een bit of lijm on the oppervlakte..... It will build some scratch....I'm sure... :-) #:-) :-)

Jeff, the text is totally cryptic and English is my native language. I wonder if they are trying to describe how the idler is moved to adjust track tension? The idler is mounted on an eccentric shaft, and by using a bloody huge wrench a nut can be turned that turns the eccentric shaft (like a cam lobe). Turning the shaft moves the idler forward or backward to adjust tension. But the rest of the statement about the VVSS doesn't make sense either. I have a feeling that they are talking about how the arms move in relation to the springs themselves. As I understand the mechanism, and this is by no means to be taken as authoritative, it works like this: Bogie wheels are attached at the ends of the suspension arms. Other end of arm is attached to the main bogie truck, inside of which are the vertical volute springs themselves. As the wheel goes over an obstacle, the arm moves and presses against the spring which absorbs the imact. As the obstacle is crossed, the strength of the spring pushes the arm back down to the normal position. Hope this helps...

Greg

Thanks for the fast replies guys But this is on the back off the AFV club tracks the M-48 tracks for Sherman. So do I need to move the arms with shims or what the heck never used AFV club tracks like this only Fruil model ones. And A big Thank you to Greg for the explanation on the VVSS suspension. Kind of wild all this torque without breaking all the time. But as an ex mechanic with Uncle sugar and civilain life I can comprende the working off it

ROFL !
Yep. You must be right, Greg. That more or less sounds like a good explanation to me... I think. #:-) I'd better drop my evening classes in Chinese Mandarin and go back to English 1.0.1. I have a lot to learn yet. I wonder if Shakespeare would have understood a modeling instruction sheet !

Jan