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Forum: Highway Trucks and Trailers 09-03-2021, 12:09 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 9,028
Posted By dremu
Re: Bruder Piggyback Forklift

Dayum, that came out well. Coupla things I hadn't thought of there, as I blithely assumed the front/fixed wheels would be the driven ones. In your pix, though, I see where there prolly isn't room for...
Forum: Construction Equipment 09-02-2021, 12:41 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,652
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish 3D printed DOT "Construction Ahead" sign display

Stuck in traffic the other day, saw one of these signs on the road, and then cones dropped at the sidewalk with bars across them to block foot traffic. Another "How hard can it be?" moment ... hmm,...
Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-30-2021, 07:11 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

Well, I can't take credit for the design since it's semi-accurate to the original. I don't envy the crazy people who have Stollies now, though. Keeping my Fiero running is nothing in comparison!
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Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-30-2021, 12:44 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

Heh, thanks! It's not perfect by any means, flubbed a couple bits, and some I had to take liberties with. The crane, particularly, isn't exact, but like I said the cylinders (actuators) only come in...
Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-30-2021, 10:55 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

Read first line :) There's a change you can make to Chrome to allow the pix.

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Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-29-2021, 07:36 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

The crane also rotates around 360*, reaches over the cab

http://www.slosh.com/rc/stolly/IMG_3178.JPG

http://www.slosh.com/rc/stolly/IMG_3179.JPG

And has interoperability with my PLS...
Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-29-2021, 07:32 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

http://www.slosh.com/rc/stolly/IMG_3180.JPG

http://www.slosh.com/rc/stolly/IMG_3171.JPG

http://www.slosh.com/rc/stolly/IMG_3172.JPG

http://www.slosh.com/rc/stolly/IMG_3173.JPG
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Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-29-2021, 07:29 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

And then various money shots of playing with it (err, I mean, verifying functionality)

http://www.slosh.com/rc/stolly/IMG_3162.JPG

Unlike the PLS, where the crane can only reach about half of...
Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-29-2021, 07:25 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

That's about it for photos of the build. Here's some of the final CAD work, split up into various sections:

http://www.slosh.com/rc/stolly/stolly%2085%20screenie%201.png
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Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-29-2021, 07:24 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

Also jumping around a bit, doing detail work, namely lights and shackles and such on the cab, and a winch because they're fun and cheap. That's the back end of the PLS up there, it gets its own shelf...
Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-29-2021, 07:13 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

Speaking of trial and error in geometry, the crane was another pain point. I've done a crane before on my PLS (HEMTT, whatever), but this one is shaped differently. I also wanted to try and stay as...
Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-29-2021, 07:04 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

This shows the longitudinal square driveshafts passing through bevel gears and held up on pillow blocks with bearings, and then the bevel gears at each wheel station and their pillow blocks. There's...
Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-29-2021, 06:55 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

The next engineering challenge was slipshafts at each wheelstation. I needed a really short driveshaft (CV joint, whatever you wanna call it) with just a bit of slip, but of course the RC driveshafts...
Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-29-2021, 06:41 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

The local plastic shop was limiting their days and hours due to COVID, so I 3D printed a bunch of parts for which I'd usually just go buy styrene sheet. In retrospect this was not ideal, but...
Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-29-2021, 06:30 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

So the first step was to throw together a CAD mockup to get an idea of size, sort out what tires would work for scale, etc:

http://www.slosh.com/rc/stolly/body%20mockup%202a.png

Was actually...
Forum: Military Vehicles. 08-29-2021, 06:08 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,068
Posted By dremu
1:10ish Alvis Stalwart 6x6 high mobility carrier, wrongest of the wrong

(NB: if pictures aren't visible, you can change a setting in Chrome. See https://rctruckandconstruction.com/showpost.php?p=170587&postcount=16 )

Bit of background: I've been building things of...
Forum: Highway Trucks and Trailers 08-29-2021, 03:16 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 9,028
Posted By dremu
Re: Bruder Piggyback Forklift

Oh, write away! Conversions are in many ways much harder because, as you note, the thing is designed for looks and not to fit all the stuff inside that a full RC needs.

Heck, the only conversion...
Forum: Highway Trucks and Trailers 08-27-2021, 08:04 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,841
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10 Land Rover Defender 4x4, mini tow rig

Quickie update: while googlink for parts for other projects, found some new stuff for this one. First was that one can get differentials for the WPL axles, yay. When I tore these down to grease them,...
Forum: Scale Buildings, Warehouses and Structures. 08-13-2021, 01:47 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 27,688
Posted By dremu
Re: Never a Gas Station around.

It's the AMC Pacer that gets me. One of the few cars weirder than our Fieros; IIRC, the driver's door is a different length than the passenger's.

And dammit, I've been trying to connive the wife...
Forum: Scale Buildings, Warehouses and Structures. 08-12-2021, 02:44 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 4,008
Posted By dremu
Re: Traffic Light

Sweet!

I'm a big fan of the 'dweeno, use them in most of my projects to drive lighting or extra controls (not least as they're really easy to interface to my RX of choice, Flysky using iBus.)
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Forum: Highway Trucks and Trailers 07-15-2021, 09:02 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 3,093
Posted By dremu
Re: i need a hinge

That's sexy. It's like a W-hinge, only like WW ... wow. Deceptively simple, too, but a beehive to draw up and animate like that.

But, several pieces of cardboard and thumbtacks and I betcha you...
Forum: Highway Trucks and Trailers 07-15-2021, 04:38 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 3,093
Posted By dremu
Re: i need a hinge

Honestly, this may be your best bet -- or do the Cardboard Aided Design thing as a starter. A few thumbtacks as rotation points and you're golden.

I suspect you're looking for like a Z-shaped...
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-24-2021, 08:38 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,652
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish 3D printed DOT "Construction Ahead" sign display

Thanks, but eh, it's not as bad as it looks. All the various bits have software already written for them ("libraries", and thankfully the more recent Arduino software has come a LONG way in managing...
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-22-2021, 09:46 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,652
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish 3D printed DOT "Construction Ahead" sign display

Thanks. "Little" is of course relative as relates to the word "project" :D, but yeah, good fun. Plunk down some of the many traffic cones

http://www.slosh.com/rc/frank/IMG_2393.JPG

and I'm good...
Forum: Construction Equipment 06-22-2021, 04:24 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,652
Posted By dremu
Re: 1:10ish 3D printed DOT "Construction Ahead" sign display

Was a bit nervous about the battery right by the power wires, so the switches are soldered and then heatshrinked (heatshrunk?) over each wire ... and then heatshrunkedified over the whole thing Just...
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