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Old 05-30-2011, 12:12 PM
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Default Re: Bruder Cat Excavator Conversion

Well time for an update on this little guy. I got some work done the last couple days to with the weekend off so I thought I'd show some progress. Not a whole lot but its starting to take shape and I can see that this thing is going to need some more power I believe. I was running it back and forth on the arm yesterday with a 10lb weight attatched to it and "SNAP" goes the pot in the servo for the arm. I couldn't believe it but the pot actually snapped apart and the servo went crazy. I shut it down and checked it out and low and behold the tiny fingers inside were all mangled and crossed contacts. So now I'm going to be ordering a stronger servo for the bucket movement seeings as how the 645 didn't really wanna take all the abuse.

Any ways here are some pics of my weekend progress. Hope you like.













Thanks for looking guys.
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