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Hope everything lines up ok in there Steve. That's definitely a strong setup if the pinion holds up. Do you have a link to the gears you are using?

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Steve , here's the pinion http://store.rc4wd.com/HPI-Racing-Be...1-_p_1377.html

the rest I got off ebay same as what I have in the pan only I made the axle housing for the truck . Here's a listing http://cgi.ebay.com/HPI-Savage-X-25-...item2eb3d51c69 Oh yes everything lines up :D thank gawd :eek: I didn't want to do it all over :eek: I still have to make the axle shafts . I may take the cups off the diffs and run the axle shaft right in . This what the cups look like http://cgi.ebay.com/HPI-86864-Differ...#ht_4874wt_872 they go into the spool and you slide a pin through the end then the bevel gear goes over top .

mike , your looking at the rear axle components . axle housing done on the lathe

thanks Clyde :)

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i really need to get a four jaw chuck ........but then again i gotta get my barn made into a shop first hope to be gettin it all done this summer

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Beautiful Steve.

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Looks good! I've been following along partly because I don't know much about Mack off-highway trucks and because it's so different.

I was curious how the tandem axles would be driven. Not trying to be nit-picky, but is this the way the axles will be oriented when they go in the truck? If I'm looking at them the way I think I am they may wind up with one spinning forward and the other backwards unless one is flipped upside down. The front axle ring gear will reverse the rotation of the jackshaft. You may already have that taken into account but I would hate to see it happen. Years ago, a couple guys from my area built a monster truck from surplus army truck parts and when they were ready to take it for a drive the axles turned opposite! I'm not sure if they ever got it driveable.

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Thanks Guys :)

Jared , yes , when put together the rear rear will be flipped . I guess I could have went into more detail and made a power divider like the real trucks .

IHSteve

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WOW!!! your workmanship just seems to be never ending. :):) Can't wait to see it under power.

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Steve, you gonna have to give a shop class one day with all this great stuff you come up with....what's that thing they say about neccessity being a "mother"

keep up the good work!

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I can't wait to either , Lynn I'm tired of man handling coal :confused:



Rob , I do not think you want to take my shop class :eek::p OSHA would prohibit it :eek: plus you'll have to wash your ears afterwards a lot of this is the main music in the shop some days , ###&&($%@!)##%%@

OH , " neccessity is the mother of invention " is on my shop door :p

just looked at another lathe today :confused: I wasn't going to :rolleyes: but curiosity never really killed the cat , the handle fit perfectly :D now the fun part trying to get it :(

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I did a little yesterday mounted the front axle made some hinges for the body :confused: may mill an authentic looking assembly :confused: and I've been dragging my feet on making the rear hangers in hopes of using the big mill :( but got tiered of waiting :confused:

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1078.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1077.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1075.jpg

thats the back side of the hanger still got hrs to go on just that 1 :eek: will the tiag hold up :eek::rolleyes:

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An excavating job came up :eek: All t&m :eek: and the customer keeps adding on :eek: so I'm not getting much time in the shop :(:mad: but did manage to glue some styrene together in the evening after getting home @ 6:30 as the alum was not welding well :( ( to much warping :( ) but this came out well :)

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1090.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1091.jpg


IHSteve

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SAAAAAWWWEEETTT there Stevie boy....Thats some nice styrene work boss:D:D:eek:

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looks great steve...

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Steve That styrene is great stuff. Only thing you have to watch out for when your going for a cool one is witch bottle you grab!!! Nice Work.
Rob

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OH OH thats why it's empty :p:p:eek:

thanks guys :)

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Looking good there, Steve. You'll have it finished in no time:rolleyes::rolleyes:

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Looks great Steve! I hadn't seen what you plan on using for the dumping mechanism. What do you have up your sleeve for that? I'm sure it'll be slick as snot.

Ben

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stock hydros ;) 2 - 4 stage cylinders . I still got a lot of shop time on this :(

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Shaping up nice Steve!

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looking great i am likein that truck

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It's looking good Steve. What size Styrene are you using?

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thanks guys :) @ Mike I'm using .100

A few more Pics with the sunset :(

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1105.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1104.jpg


OH Rob the green bottle is the empty 1 :P

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That's the first thing I checked. Well done!!!!
Rob

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Looking better all of the time:D:D

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I'll be up awhile :rolleyes: I waited a long time to do this :D milling out new frame rails for this beast :D not the best vid :confused::o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLyOWczx1DQ

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Nice work on the cab looks good can't wait to see this one haulin

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me too Henry :D gota get it ready for winter for loading the coal hopper ;)

well my butt is draggin today :eek: finished up about 4 AM 8 hrs of cutting :eek: but then I kept my feed down I hate breaking EM's mid way through :mad: I tried to flip it over and do the inside this morning but the stock is a lil out of square + being tired I was running the wrong program :o :rolleyes: oh well enough B.S. pics

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1338.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1339.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1340.jpg

back to work ;)

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Steve. You knocked that one, right out of the park, and there must have been quite a pile of chips on the floor. The frame on this truck looks like it will be rock solid and heavy duty. :D
Rob

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thanks Rob :) I got the back milled out just off the mill 30 min ago :eek: ( I'm gona get some sleep :D ) everything went well till the drill cycle :( for some azz reason my holes are out .125" :( I should have waited and bored the 2 together manually :confused:

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1345.jpg

the "I" profile

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1344.jpg


looks like the verizon strike is effecting my I-net :mad:

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Nice work Steve....your skills amaze me.

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Hmm, Did you forget to take .100'' off from the edgefinder?

Any pictures of your set up on the machine?

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yes I remembered that other wise the backside pocketing would be off . It may be that when using the cam I clicked on the circle edge and not center :confused: I'm not sure you can see it in this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLyOWczx1DQ
if not I'll take a pic when I do the other side or a trailer frame I'm going to set up . It's basically a fence that I can bolt the stock to .This trailer frame set might take a few days + igot to get more plate for the othe side :(

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For drilling, I draw points to generate the code .

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Looking good!! And everyone thinks that running a CNC mill or lathe is just push the go button and everything comes out OK :rolleyes::rolleyes: Slowing down the feedrate is not that bad of a thing to do. Recommended feeds and speeds are not all what they are cracked up to be!!!

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yea I just looked it over clicked the circle not the point :o:mad:

thanks Lynn , tell me about it :rolleyes:I tried to tell my wife that :eek: now she gets it :p , I just never spent so much time at the puter then the machine :eek: I cut the recomended feed down by 30% seems to work well I just worked up the next op for those trailer frames with the other frame in it 12 hrs :eek: I'm thinking I need to find a water jet guy for the basic profiles :confused:

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"Any pictures of your set up on the machine?"

Steve , as I promised :) also this time I decided to use a bigger EM and crank the feed up also the spindle much better time

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1346.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1349.jpg

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more tomorrow :)

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well the 2nd frame fell out of the plate this morning about 3 am :eek:

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walking beams ;)

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1366.jpg

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1361.jpg

now these get chucked up in the lathe to turn the ends where the arch stops . there's a pic of it I just got to figure how to get it on here :confused:

thanks for looking :)

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Hey Steve, are you going to chuck the walking beam's in your 4 jaw chuck? or use a dead center and lathe dog? Center drilling for the tail stock(live center) look's like fun.
Later, Neil#2 aka doodlebug.

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Neil , yep alredy done ;) did them last night while I had the mill working on a jig plate for wheels :D . the old hendy need soom work , the handle where getting rusty :eek:

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...r/PIC_1370.jpg