Manitowoc 18000

[speedy8305]

Finally starting a build thread and its a Manitowoc 18000 Crawler Crane. I started this project a bout 10 yrs ago and the first go at it was out of wood but the elements were not nice to the project, so now I will attempt to 3D print in PLA. Scale is going to be 1:14.5 so we will see how this goes it will probably take a good while until completion but I will post pics on updated progress.

[headers]

That project sounds sweet keep us updated

[speedy8305]

I sure will I am gonna try to have some pics uploaded hopefully this weekend

[speedy8305]

Here I enlarged the PDF of the crawlers to scale
crawler blueprints.jpg

[Trackerman]

Speedy,
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Cheers

Paul

[Lil Giants]

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[Wiskybilt]

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Just a little help. That thing looks like it's going to be huge, just comparing from the size on top of the desk

[speedy8305]

thanks for the help its a little big but like they say "go big or go home"

[speedy8305]

Long time since I have updated my post. I have since switched gears and Redesigned the crane and started to print the Whole thing with my D printers as the detail would be far better and less time consuming. Here are some of the design images

[speedy8305]

Here is the crawler design

[speedy8305]

Here is the crawler designCrawlers.jpg