HIAB X-HIPRO 1058 loader crane

[Hemi1966]

Originally Posted by frizzen

Beautiful machining, that's coming along great! Touch them with a deburring tool and those cylinder parts are like jewlery.

Any luck on finding the sliding teflon tape, or does it look smooth enough you might not want some?

I did not even saw those burrs before I looked at those macro shots

Yes, I got two different thicknesses of teflon tape.

[jerry56]

Not to hijack your thread but where did you find Teflon tape.??? I've tried googling it to no avail..
I follow these threads and Frizzen is right the work you do is incredible.....

[Hemi1966]

Originally Posted by jerry56

Not to hijack your thread but where did you find Teflon tape.??? I've tried googling it to no avail..
I follow these threads and Frizzen is right the work you do is incredible.....

If you search Ebay with "PTFE Adhesive Tape" you should find some

[jerry56]

Got it thank you .!!! I was looking for Teflon tape and got all kind of weird hits....didn't think about PTFE...We used it in the military years ago to insulate lighthouse tubes(I know old technology ) ...wanted to put it inside my screw drives....

[frizzen]

Glad you found a source for some tape, otherwise i was going to have to ask how much you needed and hope shipping to finland wasn't too crazy.

Keep up the killer work!

[Hemi1966]

Here's a picture of how I placed the ptfe tape (those brown pads on the brass angles).
The second picture is just a closeup of the welds.

[Hemi1966]

I have continued welding parts permanently together, there's still lots of seams to weld

[9W Monighan]

Wow, you are doing very well with your Lampert welder. I picked up an Orion welder last year. No time for the models but fixed some of my wife's cheap thin steel lawn ornaments.

[egronvold]

Welds are looking perfect

[Trucker47]

Amazing work Hemi!

How will you sequence the hydraulics to extend in the correct order? Will you make a series of sequencing valves?

[Hemi1966]

Originally Posted by Trucker47

Amazing work Hemi!

How will you sequence the hydraulics to extend in the correct order? Will you make a series of sequencing valves?

I'm trying to go without any sequencing valves, and hope that the order the oil goes to cylinders, will extend them starting from the first/largest extension.
The plumbing is going to be difficult enough already in this way

[frizzen]

If it does decide it needs help to sequence the segments correctly, you could probably make it work some little plates with a 'metered orifice' installed at hose connections, or making a 'calibrated crimp' in a hard line.

That's some pretty micro welding. I wish i were that good at full size.

[Hemi1966]

I got rest of the cylinder brackets welded in place

[Hemi1966]

I test fitted the crane to my old Tamiya based dump truck to see how it fits
One thing for sure, it's going to need some serious support legs to keep the truck upright

[thercfreak2012]

@Hemi1966 Fit it to that truck just remove the dump body and put a flatbed body on it

[thercfreak2012]

Put that on that just remove the dump body and put a flatbed on it

[Azonic]

Work of art, impressive!!

[Wombii]

Work of art indeed. Looking forward to the day we can see a very long video of it working.

[Hemi1966]

Thanks guys

Here's the start of the support legs. (cross section of it)

[Hemi1966]

I've been machining some smaller parts for the extension cylinders. (The squares on the paper are 5x5 mm.)