After a year of drawing, losing files, drawing again, modifying, tweaking, jiggering, improving, and generally not leaving well enough alone, I'm finally cutting metal. I bought a "new" Clausing 8530 mill a couple months ago and after throwing some money at it I've got it running now, so my first project with it is a B-E 22B. I started cutting metal a couple of weeks ago but didn't have much to show until now.
This is an almost-scale model. I took a few liberties with dimensions and shapes to make machining and buying metal stock easier but on the whole it's pretty close. I don't have a real machine to measure, just a spec sheet with the major dimensions on it. Everything else I've had to guess by looking at pictures.
I haven't designed a boom and fairlead for it yet but it eventually it will be set up as a dragline and clam bucket.
So here goes...
All functions are modified servos. Makes it clean and easy that way. We'll see how they hold up.
Did a bunch of puttering around in the garage and I found these on the mill.
Neither the track frame or carbody is finished yet. Got a bunch of 2-56 holes to drill and tap yet in the track frame and the carbody still needs to be hollowed out underneath to make room for the servos that will drive the tracks.
Hopefully I can keep things going and get this done before summer. It looks like I'll be working a few hours from home for a while so progress updates may be sporadic.