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Hey Scott, run's great! Any luck on the new cable exc. boom?
Later, Neil#2 aka doodlebug. |
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Thanks Neil, haven't worked on a new boom yet. It will probably be a while until I get to it. Once the weather turns nice I don't spend much time working in the basement.
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Nice work Scott. I see you went to chain drive on the slewing ring. How come you didn't go with a gear like your dragline?
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Thanks Steve. When running the cable hoe you can run the side of the bucket into a truck or dirt pile and put a lot of stress on the rotate mechanism so, I wanted it to be very strong and reliable. The setup on the dragline works great but, it only has to move the boom back and forth and never gets struck or jolted hard.
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Nice project!
kerst |
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Hey Scott. I thought that maybe those wires were for track heaters, so you could work in the snow.
Rob |
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Thank You!
HA! Boy that would drain the batteries quick Rob!
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looks great Scott , you can bring it up here when your ready to test it I got plenty of obstacles
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Thanks Steve, I hope to have it finished soon.
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The track pads are done. It runs nice and has a lot of traction with the pads on. I ran it around my basement for about 30 minutes and the tracks batteries (4 cell NiMH AAA pack) still had over 5 volts in it so, the batteries should last all day on one charge because the tracks aren't used much.
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hey scott, where do you find the chain your using for your track? i've been looking for some, but i'm really not sure what to look for.
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Russ, I got the chain from a local bearing & chain supplier. It is #35 chain with K1 links on every other link. The (smaller) drive chain is #25 chain that is the same size that is used on a lot of the rc motorcycles.
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i have a question where did you get the aluminum for the track pads
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looking good man!! my replacement servos arrived the other day so i hope to get mine going now to lol.
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Scott very nice job on the tracks but I still think they are to short but it's yours and if your happy that all that counts. Ed
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Thanks Ed. The tracks length (where it actually touches the ground) is about the same as the width (7 inches) so, if it is too short it is also too narrow... which I don't believe it is. We'll know soon enough though when I dig with the oversized bucket.
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Due to all the rain we have been having I didn't make the National pike show but, I got a lot of work done on the Cable Hoe. Here are a couple of videos of it running.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDNg-lWYWdA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO1HTfixDI4
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That turned out really nice Scott. Are you going to add some rollers on the bottom of the track frames too?
What rain? I put about 14hrs total on the 9W this weekend. 8hrs almost nonstop Saturday. I even dug at night for an hour Saturday evening. Sunday morning it rained for an hour or so but I had it tarped down and dug as soon as the sun came out again I dug for about 5hrs more. |
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That is great that the weather turned out ok for the show. I am looking forward to the August show.
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