PC1800 Front Shovel (1/12)

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Reg, yes the cuts are nice and straight , remember this is no skill of mine just of a machine.....the quality of what you do manually is far more impressive!!

Jammer, I do sleep at night...lol...these are pics of what I have done over the past few months, I wish it was going together this fast....sadly that is not what is happening, if I get this done in the next year I'll be doing good...lol

Cooper, yes the pattern on the sprocket is etched, the machine operates at about half the normal cutting pressure and the travel speed is also increased which means it just doesn't have enough time to cut through the material, it does have it's limitations and the depth of the etch isn't really something that you can change, it is somewhat of a default setting.

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A few more pics of the undercarriage...

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I will be using one solid slider instead of bottom rollers, didn't have any black plastic...and yes I was using a drill chuck to hold the end mill while cutting the UHMW plastic....I was trying to make the sides look like what I think is called a full rock guard, kinda killed two birds with one stone with this idea just wish it was black, not sure how long plastic paint will stay on them, may need to do them again using black plastic....or down the road I might replace the slider with rollers, really want to see if and for how long this will work

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Hard to see the detail in this photo but you can kinda get an idea of what it will look like, still need to cut the slot for the track chain to run in.

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