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Old 10-14-2015, 11:51 PM
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No you don't weld the chassis.
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Old 02-17-2016, 01:24 PM
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Long time no update. Well I finilly got home. I ordered some of the nickel silver teeth from Premacon for the LR634, and their 3mm hydraulic tubing. It seems to be stiffer than what came with the leimbach hydraulic kit, hoping no more burst hose at 20bar. Also bought some Road Trucker tires for the drives on my King Hauler.

Last time I was home I connected the battery the wrong way to my Turning 9x transmitter, and fried something. So I ordered their new one with telemetry and 10 channels , the HD i10.

I will try to desprue the teeth and install them and replace the tubing and program the transmitter for the lr634 before I leave again.
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Old 02-17-2016, 01:50 PM
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https://drive.google.com/folderview?...0U&usp=sharing

Also last time I was home I installed Roady Wide tires on the steers. Packed them with BB's and then superglued the tires to the rims. I only glued them on after having a tire roll off when going over an obstacle with 20 pounds on the fifth wheel. I want to eventually turn the Knight Hauler into a dump truck, or buy one of RCP's? dump trailers.

Link has pictures of the items from my previous post, will post images properly when I have some time.

Oh, forgot. Also bought a Scale Driveshaft too. I took the struts off of the truck for a bit more articulation and the stock driveshaft would bind up and almost fall out sometimes.
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Old 02-17-2016, 07:57 PM
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That hyd tubing is probably the same stuff Fumotec & Vario use, definitely high pressure line, but it don't like to bend tight radii... if you do need to make a tight bend though, careful use of a hot air gun works well.

Also, the use of this type of hyd line, did you get all new fittings as well? I don't think this type of hyd line will work with Leimbach's barbed fitting & press-on collar.
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Old 02-17-2016, 08:38 PM
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Good point, I'll see if I can make it work.
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Old 12-06-2016, 09:58 PM
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You were right, Lil Giants. The Premacon 3mm Hyd tubing is just stiff enough that I had to order new 3mm fittings from Premacon. Will post updates when I receive them.
Cleaning and lubing after having the loader sit over a year.
And my metal teeth.

I was only able to slip the 3mm tube over the stock T connector, all the other fittings were slightly bigger.





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Old 12-10-2016, 09:01 PM
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Yesterday I was motivated enough to work on the loader some more. I started by rearranging the battery and all the electronics to be as hidden as possible from view. I stacked the Sabertooth2x12 in the rear with the receiver on top of it. I am just going to go with the one 3S 8Ah battery. I laid it flat down and covered the whole battery with some foam packing material. Then I hotglued small pieces of velcro so that everything would stay together.

I also hotglued in a mesh material over the fan to prevent any wiring from being chewed up in the fan blades. The metal mesh came from a cooking oil spatter guard. The mesh was actually very soft. I taped a paper template on it and cut around it to the rough shape. Then I just pressed down with a used Xacto blade and it cut right through. Popped it in place, reheated the old hot glue with a soldering gun and applied more hot glue around the edges to make sure nothing sharp was exposed.

After the mesh was installed I went back and tried to reduce the wiring clutter. I soldered together a new, more compact, connector/s thingy. It's ugly but it'll do for now. I need a terminal block and some solid wire, that would look a lot cleaner.

Also spent some time messing around with the radio and trying to relearn how to use it.







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Old 12-11-2016, 09:53 AM
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Look's good Avel, I just received my 634 last week, It's nice to have all the pictures and post's for this machine from you guy's that have already taken the challenge...

Yours looks great,

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Old 12-11-2016, 03:30 PM
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These posts also help me recall how and why I made certain modifications. Just last night I disassembled the cylinders and nicked the piston rod. I should of been more descriptive in how I managed to disassemble the cylinder last time. But at least the rod was nicked close to the end where it wouldn't cause any problems when operating.

Also I did a lot of reading of what other owners of this loader had done.
There are a lot of German forums that I spent time on too, I used Google Chrome's translator to kind of understand what was happening in the pictures.

http://www.modelltruckforum.de/

http://www.modelltruck.net/

http://www.modell-baustelle.de/
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Old 03-11-2017, 11:43 PM
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Back in December, while waiting for my hydraulic fittings from Premacon, I wanted to work on the LR634 and decided to finally wire in some lights.

I had some 5050 size leds that I had bought for this purpose back in 2014. They are a perfect fit. I used enameled wire soldered to the leds. Then popped the lights into the enclosures and installed the lens and secured it with MEK.

I used a resistor calculator online to find the right resistor, I ended up using two resistors in parallel to get very close to the recommended resistance. Found them in an old power supply. I put copper tape around them because they were getting hot, my resistors are a bit undersized.

For the dual lights in front I shaved down the stepped dowel part that goes into the roof because I didn't like how far down they hung from the roof. I didn't shave them down in the back, wish I had. I made a "box" out of some corrugated copper sheet, glued it inside the cab and soldered everything together . I used some hot glue to attach the wire that runs inside the corner down to the body.

I have it hooked up to a switchable on/off 6v BEC.

I received my fittings from Premacon two weeks ago, just don't feel like working on the LR634, so maybe in May i'll get working on it. For now I've just been playing with a 1/10 Axial Yeti RC car.























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Old 03-12-2017, 01:41 PM
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That looks great!! Thanks for sharing. I'm in the process of adding lights to my PC700. I'm not familiar with electronics so why did you need to put a resistor?
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This loader just keeps getting better! Wow.

The resistor is a current limiter to keep the leds from destroying themselves.
http://www.rctruckandconstruction.co...read.php?t=441
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Old 03-13-2017, 01:49 AM
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The resistor is a current limiter to keep the leds from destroying themselves.
http://www.rctruckandconstruction.co...read.php?t=441
Thank you for that link too.
In the second picture just in front of the ruler, aren't those resistors? Why not use those? I just purchased led's and it came with those style resistors but didn't know what they were for.

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Old 03-13-2017, 02:55 AM
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Yeah those are the resistors I used. I glued them to the cab roof inside that copper/ gray painted thing.
Here's the calculator I used to find out what resistors to use for my needs.
http://ledcalc.com/#calc
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Old 03-13-2017, 04:26 PM
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Yeah those are the resistors I used. I glued them to the cab roof inside that copper/ gray painted thing.
Here's the calculator I used to find out what resistors to use for my needs.
http://ledcalc.com/#calc
Thank you! Now I see the resemblance.
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