Dragline Rebuild

[modelman]

Originally Posted by 9W Monighan

Hey Tom, Nice to see you have been working at your hobby again. I like the control you built. I see what looks like small electrolyte capacitors ( I think) on the rear. What is all that about?
Let see some pictures of you swing gear box.

Hi steve-I am trying to stay busy and this is what I like. That is capacitors on the controller. The computer P.S. would shut down as soon as I moved the sticks (electric motor noise) and the capacitors added in series (6-pcs.) solved the problem. I will post some pics. of the swing gear-case when I get further along. Now I am just trying to design something that will work in the space I have. I need lots of gear reduction and the gears I am trying to use are actually too big.

Originally Posted by Lil Giants

Yes indeed, good to see you tinkering again Tom.

Lil giants joe-thanks-I would say tinkering is a good description of what I am doing . Just trying to stay active and I still really like the model building but find it very hard to do what I want to do.