dresser TD40B dozer

[buzzy16]

This is looking great, you've done a great job with all those tracks.

[ihbuilder]

here's a track press vid for you guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=-LneuWbi1qc

[sparkycuda]

Okay, so is the trackpress video a forerunner to you building a scale-sized one to assemble your tracks? That'd be really cool, just need to find a scale-sized guy to run it. He won't need safety glasses - the real guy didn't either! I enjoy being around a press when disassembling really big tracks - like a Komatsu D475 or even D575. It strains and pops and jumps and gets your insides tightened up waiting for something to fly apart! Guess I'm just a sick dude using a trackpress as a source of excitement?!?

Ken

[ihbuilder]

Originally Posted by sparkycuda

Okay, so is the trackpress video a forerunner to you building a scale-sized one to assemble your tracks? That'd be really cool, just need to find a scale-sized guy to run it. He won't need safety glasses - the real guy didn't either! I enjoy being around a press when disassembling really big tracks - like a Komatsu D475 or even D575. It strains and pops and jumps and gets your insides tightened up waiting for something to fly apart! Guess I'm just a sick dude using a trackpress as a source of excitement?!?

Ken

not sure I'll build the exact press but maybe a vise jig . I never got to see them used but I did see them when picking and dropping off for new P&B's

[ihbuilder]

woohoo , got some steel cutting goin on in the mill so we started the long drawn out process of making the chains maybe I can drive this thing someday

[ihbuilder]

Pucks for sprockets and hubs



Need to fill every nail save 2 on board with 10 links each



On edit will resize pics just trying out PB on iPhone

[doodlebug]

Originally Posted by ihbuilder

Pucks for sprockets and hubs



Need to fill every nail save 2 on board with 10 links each



On edit will resize pics just trying out PB on iPhone

Glad to know that PB can work off of a phone
Cheer's, Neil.

[ihbuilder]

You need to down load the app then you can upload pics right from your phone . Getting the image code copied and paste takes a little doing . Basically , tap the share link and then tap copy and the list of links come up , tap on img link and it should say copied . I still haven't fig. how to edit yet . Have to check my pic size setting on the phone may be set to big . Before when uploading to iPhoto on the desktop the photos where fine . I think iPhoto resizes on the export to PB .

[doodlebug]

I'll have to figure it out before the Con Expo trip in March.
Thanks, Neil.

[modelman]

Good to see you working on this again steve. Stay with it and "git er done".

[ihbuilder]

Originally Posted by modelman

Good to see you working on this again steve. Stay with it and "git er done".

thank you , Have a lil job to finish then maybe back at it this weekend before clean out for aluminum running again . Upper back givin me trouble again too

[ihbuilder]

Yep you guessed it , sein it on the bench with the lil D6 this is the second construction model I started before I got the machining centers . Some things just wasn't sittin well with me . So made a new tank before I quit tonight . I had the turning center on bushings for the tracks , pin stock will be here tomorrow afternoon . Along with the cutters needed to finish up the links
Warning : you know it's time to quit for the evening when you I grave the tank separation line on the wrong side . Well I got a tig .









I've desided to go with the "C" model then the "B" . I like the newer cab arrangement



(Copied from machinery trader )

[Cooper]

always nice to see all them track pads, links and pin rollers!!!!!!!! now I just need to figure out when you are gonna be out workining somewhere,,, you are close enough that I can come down there and grab em!!!

nice work steve!!!!

[ihbuilder]

Problem is you can't tell if I'm home

Tank all fixed I kinda overloaded / heated the lil tig

[ihbuilder]

Gettin there once I figured out where I put all the stuff I got for it Even with cnc these tracks are wearing me out .

[pontiacmann]

Great Work, Looks nice

[Cooper]

Looks really good Steve!! All that work in those tracks will pay off, they will surely last!!!

[ihbuilder]

Thanks guys . I'm pushing to get this undercarriage parts done by end of this weekend before I loose the mill to a job I gotta get done . All track parts done and 1 chain together and started on putting pads on

I ran 2 at a time like so to make sure I got right and left link and not all the same

[9W Monighan]

What a sight to see all those track parts assembled.


Where's the filler plugs to add oil? SALT tracks

[sparkycuda]

Maybe he turned them to the inside? And then, the square track nuts are no where to be seen

Steve, great job and always good to see the IH-Dresser stuff. Worked on quite a few of these beasts in the past.

Ken