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  1. bonox
    The 5571. The prices are too silly, even just for the two doors, so i'm building Grazi's tow truck instead as an homage to the original with a pantload of part substitutions to make it affordable. I'm still on the lookout for one hiding in an attic somewhere though.
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    Another outstanding truck Ingmar. I love the stripes
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    I've also found that if you take the lids off them, they'll slide out and sit like drawers (if you don't pull them all the way and there's a box above it). If I were going to do that though, i'd use much cheaper boxes and put upper stop rails in. But i'm not, so I won't.
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    I rarely to never lock the boxes, so it isn't hard to just flip them open. I also generally only need a dozen or so parts at a time, so I pull all those inner trays out of the boxes, put those on the build desk and the rest go back in the crate. You can also leave the outer boxes strewn all over the floor, which it what I used to do. Just because you've got a rack to put them in doesn't mean they have to live there all the time.
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    Thanks for this post fred. I took your idea for my storage. It's on trial at the moment while I work out if any changes should be made, then it'll get edging and a door. The wheels make it simple to move around and handy to store out of the way of the rest of the family Made 30mm short of the doorway heights. I'll need to redo it if I ever get carpet or a floating floor
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    Striking looks, great C model parts use and good use of the new curved panels somewhere other than wheel arches. Kinda looks like a yankee muscle car with the roof ripped off :)
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    try this: http://rebrickable.com/search?q=&theme=001&numpieces=0&maxpieces=950&year=1998&yearto=2015&official=1&custom=1&pt=0&c=-1&sets=&showprints=1 less than 950 parts, technic theme and years after 1998 - more of a studless focus on the factory sets. All the MOCs are younger than that anyway. If you don't actually mind pneumatics and want to see what can be really crammed into a small space, Jennifer Clark's skid steer loaded is worth a look
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    8443 and 8455. The backhoe in particular is a fabulous example of what can be achieved in a moderate space with a moderate number of parts. The 8289 might interest you for playability. Jurgen;s Little Devil is a fun RC car of moderate size.
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    Given your enthusiasm Ingmar, I can see why your models are so great. You really get a thrill out of heavy transport Since you're keen for me to finish, i've ordered some parts to create a single matching colour dolly for your trailer. Don't hold your breath for a quick build though - the parts are coming from your backyard so will take a while to get here. If you'd like any info from Australian manufacturers like Drake, I can't promise anything but i'd be very happy to talk to them on your behalf to find drawings, pictures etc of whatever you're interested in building. Those converter dolly's also come in two and three axle versions, but unless you're talking about unsealed (dirt) roads, then mostly the two axle version is used. For the boosters, i'm guessing that for rigid axles, they inprove turning radius and available configurations as you've said; makes the basic trailer easier to use when you don't need all five axles. Over here I generally see four axle lowboys with steering for those kinds of loads. Still, the US has some funny rules, especially in Illinois and adjacent states. I've seen some really weird axle configurations around Chicago!
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    skid steer? Makes sense in the soft environment it's shown in.
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    wow - there are some great ideas for small building sites in there i'd really like to see in production! I first thought that the side unloading tipper could cause problems because it's hard to drive away from, but you could treat is as a side tipper by driving while unloading, or even crab steer away from the pile. The modular truck concept and a couple of examples of how to use it is very well executed. Congrats
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    I think I did a few of those on-the-fly changes as well. A lot of 4L instead of 4L with stop, two axle8 instead of one axle16 to make installation simpler. I thought about a change to the axle12 centre drive as well, but ended up making a build frame to sit the body on with the axle hanging in the middle.
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    Common? Yes - to say we have a few would be an understatement. There are two basic types - converter dollys to turn a semi trailer into a full trailer, and these are mostly used for road trains. Then there are the heavy haul dollys for load sharing, which is what you've designed. This one is a 2 x 8 as i've modelled half of above There's a better pic of the axle arrangement and 16 tyre gouping here: http://www.draketrailers.com/component/igallery/drake-trailers/dolly# I've never seen your booster here. We have a company called Drake who just keep adding axles to the primary trailer instead. I think this one would impress JaapTechnic sitting next to his nooteboom trailer :) This is a converter dolly. Turns a semi trailer into a trailer, turntable sits in the middle of the axle group, is fully braked and towed only - no load support from the tractor or leading trailer. We see groups of these often out west with three trailers in a train.
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    I have a set of white wheels for the crane - I just have to dig out the 8479 :) This is what I had in mind (as a 5 minute rush). The jeeps with the turntable over its own wheels tend to have lots of them. In this case, it would have 16 wheels on four axles plus a bit of load share onto the tractor, otherwise you would need ballast on it for traction. Maybe I should finish it :) I haven't built the rear add-on for the trailer yet, so your jeep will get converted to that :) I agree with you about the ball joints in the suspension for asymmetric (different height each side of an axle), but i'm only playing on a level floor. I do appreciate the test and design effort you put into it though. I checked and your instructions are good - I made a mistake in following them
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    I wouldn't worry. According to general manufacturers data (which you can google), it's generally usable from about -20 to +80 celcius. Above that it softens a bit.
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    it's quite clever in that regard and I've not even seen a MOC that does the same, however from watching the real cranes outside my window most days, it's not really reflective of how many mobile crane styles work. That behaviour was why level luffing designs were invented, but they tend not to be mobile.(edit: by which I mean the operator has to feed out line as the boom extends or they have computer control to do the same. There aren't many direct mechanical or hydraulic links between the hoist drum and the boom extension gear on the stuff around me.) For a toy though it improves playability tremendously. Nice reflection Plethora and a great incentive to go and rebuild some older models now and again.
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    Certainly was a great build. I've replaced all of the 6571's you use in your suspensions (trailers included) to plain 1x3 liftarms, which might be useful for others as they're much easier to get and cheap and don't really change the suspension behaviour. I'll check the instructions on the visor for you, but the old B model my uncle used to drive had an offset wire visor. The gap wasn't that big though, so i'll look to fix it. I have built a model of what I mean with the dolly/jeep and i'll post a photo when I can. Because it's used to spread the load of the trailer over more tyres, the turntable/5th wheel ordinarily sits somewhere between the dolly axle group and the dolly kingpin. Your design has the turntable pretty much over the dolly axle group only which doesn't load the tractor/prime-mover at all. It's easy to see why you did it that way, but it could be tweaked to look like a real one in my opinion. I made my prototype using 43.2 tyres instead of 62.4 which is also what the real ones do to keep the length of the gooseneck shorter which is what I think you're saying. Anyway, I do love the set, and it looks great carrying Jennifer's crane
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    is that because american's don't crash cars, they wreck them? Looking great on the progress too D3K. I see i'm going to have to invest in some new style shift mechanism parts.
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    that's quite possible, especially at the price point, but it would be nice to see 500 part pneumatic universal sets come back again. The 8040 had only 160 parts and the 8044 only 200.
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    great news afol :) Now the rest of us need to work out if we'll rebuild it or not with your little changes. Sheo - any thoughts on a rope shovel to sit alongside this hydraulic one?
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    given the pins are pretty much only used in shear, and shear resistance is a direct function of cross section area, it would seem to me to be a reasonable assumption given no additional data. under high load however, the pin deforming seems to be a significant mode of failure, meaning stiffness rather than strength is the limiting point of the pins. Given that, a performance greater than the proportional increase in mass also seems reasonable if you (edit: don't) have trouble stopping the connected parts coming out of plane, as typically happens in single shear designs. You may find this interesting as well: http://eprints.usq.e...esting_2012.pdf often we design joints to fail in bearing before nett section failure or knife edge failure of fasteners - it would appear than lego bricks and liftarms have failure modes that are generally nett section failure of the structure element. You only get pin failure when you control the general structure deformation (by zip ties in his case or bars in the back of pins in others).
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    If any of the predictions about computer control materialise in the next couple of decades, there won't be any 'bodywork' to speak of. You'll have piles of unaerodynamic cubes following a streamlined leader. No cab, no windows, just a load bay and some wheels. If you think i've just described a train with self piloted 'carriages' that peel off when they need to, it's exactly where i'm going. Then again, if the last decade is anything to go by, the world with money will probably be too scared to change to anything new and in 50 years we'll still be running diesel engines running on algae generated oil. Either way, I don't think you can cast aspersions upon anyones guess about what'll happen.
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    wow - looks great chase. Having just built the two section, i'd be keen to put a 3 section together as well - and probably keep both with the crane for amusement.
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    I'm thrilled with your design Ingmar - Thanks again for making them available. I've bought a few of your instructions now and the attention to detail is outstanding! I really like the curves in the granite My trailer deck is a bit different from yours - I like the 8x8 mesh plates :) I did keep your extension rail idea, but they're not fitted. My float also uses another brick depth of reinforcing to counter bending, but it won't handle anything other than a flat floor now. ok compromise for an indoor model I think. Did you try any designs to get the dolly turntable closer to the middle? I'm guessing the longer trailer gooseneck is a bit too flexible? It would mirror the loading of the real ones more realistically and make the truck model take more load as well.
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    i've ordered a dozen future car 70x28 wheels to try with this, hoping the size won't be too different to the 68.8. I've also got a couple of 68.8x40 and x36 balloons to try as well, since they look pretty good on Ingmar's off highway trucks. I figure I might be able to make up a wheel cover that will hide the 'sports car' nature of the wheels a little. Since I won't be getting around to completing the build for a while, does anyone have thoughts on what it might look like? There are some low profile car type tyres as well that could look interesting on the rear, but they're way too wide for the first and second axles I think.
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