dresser TD40B dozer

[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

[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

[modelman]

Nice work steve-putting all those pcs. together looks like it would be fun to do. Are the pins pressed in? This machine is looking really good.

[ihbuilder]

Thanks , Tom . The pins and bushings are pressed into the rails(links) . Even the master pin is some what I'll be cutting snap ring groves in them . I was going to use the split master link , but I just didn't trust the bolts .

Here's a few more update pics . I have the chains assembled and pads on one side . Track frames almost done . New cab mocked up ( stickin with the B I don't want some komatsuized machine )

[ihbuilder]

Frame part of front track frame keep . I simplified it a bit . I also beefed up the pivot bar .

[modelman]

Pictures will not open for me steve. I tried a few different ways but same results.

[JAMMER]

Pictures won't open for me either. Ed