It took me a long time to work out how the suspension on the Valentine works. Anyway, here's a bit of video I found on youtube that shows it rather well.


As for my little Valentine, it's still coming along although a severe shortage of money and the inability to get into my garage has slowed work to a crawl. The suspension components have been made, drilled and, in four cases, bent into a reasonable facsimile of the genuine slow motion suspension. Wheels have been bought and I've just started constructing my tracks - three hundred odd 65mm steel butt hinges - and drive sprockets. With the sprockets I had a real stroke of luck since the 125mm diameter wheels I'd bought just happened to exactly mesh with the hinges. All I have to do now is fit 17 spikes to each of them and I think I'll use M6 security nuts for the purpose