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Old 05-16-2015, 11:53 AM
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Default Re: 1/16 Bucyrus Erie 25B

Jared,

As a newbie machinist I have to ask. How or why did you decide to make the side frames from a single chunk of aluminum instead of starting with to pieces of bar stock and then bolting them together with spacers? It looks like a lot of milling to remove all that material in the middle? I have the same question about the center part? I was going to try an make the center from a 1/4" plate and then add "side skirts" to make the upside down box.

I made some of the sides using channel, but I think I'm going to redo them using two part of bar stock and spacers and then I can do rollers as you did.

Thanks again for the thread! I refer to it as I am working on mine.



Jim
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