1/25 6 Axle Lattice Crane

[kerst]

Poor guy!
But great to see some progress on this fantastic model!

Kerst

[jack van]

Originally Posted by kerst

Poor guy!
But great to see some progress on this fantastic model!

Kerst

remind me to NEVER apply for opereator position in your company lol

[Southgate ll]

Way-ell, guys... It's been a while! As life goes and comes up with all manner of distractions, not in a bad way necessarily, I've been MIA here. I had been trying for a while to log in but couldn't get my password(s) to work, so I changed my forum name a little and re registered. But I'm back

The Crane.
Long story as short as I think I can get it; as I was about 99% finished with this project, I faced up to the fact that I was never quite satisfied that I took some liberties in building it. It's supposed to be 1/25 scale, but in reality, it was pretty over sized for the class of crane I was shooting for. I was working with and around components and skills I had at the time.

Fast forward to 9-18-2017. That's the day I decided, after extensive measuring, calculating, sketching, and even a bit of guessing, I decided to bring it into the proportions I'd really be happy with.

The upper unit needed narrowing. That's involved enough. The carrier however was far and away the harder to downsize. It had to be narrowed, lowered, and the length shortened, each on it's own a big challenge.

This post so far took longer to write than I thought it would, but I'll post it lest I should lose it somehow. I'll be back with pictures and progress notes soon. It's good to be able to log on again! Dan.

[Southgate ll]

I just spent about 1 1/2 hours writing and posting pix to update progress. Hit "preview post", POOF! Gone.

[Southgate ll]

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[Southgate ll]

Thank you, Frizzen. I got the new motors on an Ebay buy it now source. Type in motor gearheads and all kinds of stuff comes up. The motors in the upper unit drums are 6v, rated at 20 rpm... I shoulda gone with 30 but they're livable. They are really powerful and have great torque. They are 25mm around. I ordered them right when the covid thing really took off in the U.S, but they got here in decent time.