Forum: Construction Equipment
04-29-2020, 05:12 PM
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Replies: 99
Views: 20,015
Re: Cat 340D Excavator build
How do you work that fast in Fusion? Is it practice, practice, practice? Fusion still feels slow and confusing to me, but then I really haven't logged that many hours in it yet - only a few.
I'm...
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Forum: Construction Equipment
04-24-2020, 03:20 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 3,509
Re: Frankenstein Crane
If you're running Windoze, and you have a version of Microsoft Office, then you might already have the software you need to resize the photos.
Some (Most?) versions of Microsoft Office have a...
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Forum: Construction Equipment
04-24-2020, 02:56 PM
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Replies: 99
Views: 20,015
Re: Cat 340D Excavator build
Chris:
If you move the cylinder are you still going to get the curl on the bucket that you need in the other direction? Don't want to be dropping bits out of the bucket when trying to stack the...
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Forum: Construction Equipment
02-27-2020, 02:46 PM
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Replies: 99
Views: 20,015
Re: Cat 340D Excavator build
Not a chance, they're like bacteria - they spread. Or was it that they're like 2 year old's and they get into everything - never can keep that straight.
Don
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Forum: Construction Equipment
02-25-2020, 03:45 PM
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Replies: 99
Views: 20,015
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Forum: Construction Equipment
02-20-2020, 05:35 PM
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Replies: 99
Views: 20,015
Re: Cat 340D Excavator build
Crueby:
The curved part is oddly enough called the "boom", the other is called either the "bucket arm" or the "stick". There is sometimes a "thumb" that the bucket can pinch against to pick...
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Forum: Construction Equipment
02-10-2020, 05:11 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,788
Re: My first Tonka Conversion
Jerry:
The Arduinos aren't really that complicated. Some people write REALLY elegant code that can do anything, and it gets complicated. Others, like me, tend to write down and dirty, brute...
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Forum: Construction Equipment
02-07-2020, 04:47 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,788
Re: My first Tonka Conversion
Jerry:
There's guys on this forum and others that are either working on the programming for Arduinos to run their lights, or have completed it. I'm working on a Bruder Manitou 2150 conversion on...
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Forum: Electronics tech
01-16-2020, 05:09 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 10,831
Re: Remote LED switching with Arduino examples.
Wombii:
The delay is OK. My day job is in engineering so the Christmas and July 4th plant shutdowns are my busiest times of the year. This is the first time I've been able to get back to this. ...
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Forum: Electronics tech
12-19-2019, 04:44 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 10,831
Re: Remote LED switching with Arduino examples.
Wombii:
My plan was to monitor the steering and throttle/direction channels with the Nano. From the pulse widths of those two channels I was going to decode the various LED functions that I...
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Forum: Electronics tech
12-18-2019, 05:04 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 10,831
Re: Remote LED switching with Arduino examples.
Just stumbled across this thread. For the last couple of weeks I've been working on programming an Arduino Nano to do something similar. I'm working on an R/C conversion of a Bruder Manitou 2150,...
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Forum: Construction Equipment Tech
12-10-2019, 05:33 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,639
Re: Hydraulik pressure sensor
Found one on Amazon that's available up to 1000 psi, I Googled "pressure transducer arduino" and got a boat-load of hits. I'm not going to try posting the link, it's seems like it's over a mile...
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Forum: Construction Equipment Tech
11-06-2019, 11:26 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,404
Re: Rx channels
Not sure, I don't have anything with hydraulics. I just did a 2 minute search of past threads in this forum and came up with a few threads that might help you. Look over the past threads and you...
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Forum: Construction Equipment Tech
11-04-2019, 02:33 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,404
Re: Rx channels
Set it up the way that makes the most sense to you. With an excavator, your bucket, stick, boom and slew controls will get the most use, everything else - not so much. Start with making access to...
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Forum: Farm Tractors and Implements
10-24-2019, 12:57 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 18,551
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Forum: Farm Tractors and Implements
10-21-2019, 05:25 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 18,551
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Forum: Construction General Discussion
10-16-2019, 10:33 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,363
Re: Bruder 2818 Mack crane
It'll be a SLOOOOWWW build when I do it. I picked this one up because, as you say, it looked cool and the price was right. I've got WAY too many other projects going on, and that 4 letter word...
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Forum: Construction General Discussion
10-15-2019, 11:18 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,363
Bruder 2818 Mack crane
Does anyone out there know if anybody has done an RC conversion of the Bruder 2818 crane? I picked one up tonight for about 1/2 price, with the conversion in mind for a future project. I've looked...
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Forum: Construction Companies & Worksites
08-08-2019, 01:37 PM
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Replies: 1,875
Views: 971,223
Re: LilGiantsConstrCo
A quick Google search puts the cost of a wheelchair at $100-$200 so the question of buying one will probably come down to flipping a coin.
You just be damned careful getting in and out of that...
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