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Old 09-03-2010, 10:26 PM
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Default Re: 1/16 Bucyrus-Monighan Walking Dragline

Ah, that was a huge mistake! I originally was going to make collector rings like the real machine only 14 circuits. I bought a $45 piece of Static dissipating UHMW plastic to machine out then press copper rings in each. After I spent a whole day machining them I was reading that the material was a good insulator only to find that was a typo in the McMaster Carr book. Static Dissipating CONDUCTS electricity! The salesman said I could send the mtl back but I told him I already cut it up. So I scrapped the idea and started buying rotary slip rings that came up on Ebay and I bought several to try. Now I know how much current the machine uses I may be able to put a slip ring in with more conductors. I have one the same size and make but 24 wires. With this type I could hard wire the whole machine and forget about using a radio to control it.
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