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Thank you. I'd not thought about using minifigures at all let alone Jack Stone ones. Jake wanted the crane to have people in it for his pictures and chose them. I think they're pretty good scale wise. Thank you.

Thank you, I've had a lot of fun building it. As always, you're very kind. Thank you Edwin. Thank you Bart. Thank you. Jake & George have been testing the lifting capacity. Apparently it's great for lifting various items of fruit, one of 4yr old Georges shoes, Grums trouser leg & hastily built Lego creations, but no good at all for lifting little Sisters! Thank you very much. As for the Grove, I'd be good to do a WIP thread. I'm still collecting the parts needed. I've got another 2 42009's so have a lot of what's needed, it's just getting everything else. In the mean time I've a 42030 (amongst many, many others) I'd like to build. Thank you. The next challenge? In time I'd like to build the Grove but until I have all the parts I've a 42030 to build.

Hello Everyone I hope you are all well. After 33 build days and a total build time of 131hrs I'm very proud to say my Ultimate 42009 is finished. To say it's been a hugely enjoyable process is an understatement. Yes there have been a few mistakes leading to frustrations but they were all of my own making & took nothing away from the pleasure building this brilliant set has given me. I'm sorry for not posting pics of the final coulpe of stages of the build. I dropped my phone one too many times & it gave up the ghost. To be honest the final few days were mainly just taken up doing 'odd jobs'. Stringing the booms 3rd section return. The string that came with the set kept getting caught up when retracting the boom so I bought a spool of 0.2mm 40lb breaking strain nanofibre fishing line as it was thin, strong & was guaranteed not to tangle. After threading and extending the boom I then retracted it and initially all was fine but about half way in the 3rd section stopped and that was it. It couldn't even be pushed in. Sure enough the line had got caught between the boom sections. When the section was pulled out the so called no tangle line had done just that. Tried the Lego string again and had the same result as before. The return string has now been removed until I find another way to retract it, whether that be with strong, thinner string or a mechanical solution I'll have to see. Time was also spent removing the battery box as it was difficult for me to turn it on/off. I replaced it with an 88000 AAA battery box and fitted a few parts in the battery bay to hold it in place. As the on/off button was buried fairly deep in the chassis I've made a 'probe' from a 9L grey axle (easier to see in the dark confines of the chassis) with a couple of joined connectors on the end for grip. Works a treat. The battery box on the superstructure has also received some attention as I found removing it to be a tad difficult and replacing it most frustrating so I came up with the solution below. Now I just have to pull the two grey pins and slide the battery box off the axles and vice versa. No more frustrations. The remainder of the time was taken up with siting the Sbricks. This was easily done on the superstructure but it proved a little difficult fitting them on the carrier. Originally I'd sited the Sbrick controlling Drive, Steering & Outriggers on the lower of the 2 9L Lift Arm to the rear of the engine. This was fine until I decided to add headlights (rear ones yet to be fitted) & roof mounted flashing lights and wanted to be able to make use of the Light Button on Vengits 42009S profile I used a 3rd Sbrick. Fine in principle but where to site it? I considered removing the engine, putting it, along with the other Sbrick, in there & making an engine cover to hide them, all the wiring & the small motherboard controlling the flashing lights. In the end I decided to try fitting the 3rd Sbrick beside the engine. Initially it wouldn't fit but after removing the connectors from A port and placing them on the D port the height was reduced by one stud enabling it to sit 'inside' the 5x11 Panel. Once in place it sits fairly tight up against the engine which though less than ideal is fine for now. Power to the 3rd Sbrick is provided by daisy chaining it to the Carrier Sbrick. To allow room for the second connector I fitted a 9L Lift Arm between the other 2 behind the engine. Fitting the Sbrick to this provided the clearance needed. For those who may not be familiar with Sbricks, the port for power is sited underneath the brick. The wires are still a tad untidy for my liking but they'll get sorted out soon. Well, that's about it. After all this time it's now complete. That just leaves a few thank you's. The biggest thank you of all must go to my Darling Wife, Gilly, our family & freinds. Their love & support for everything I do has always been limitless and in the case of my Lego hobby (obsession!) doubly so. I love you all. A huge thank you also to all at Vengit. I've built numerous PF models and after building I miss out on the whole play thing many of you look forward to so once our wonderful Grandsons, other Family members and Friends have had their fun the sets are dismantled, put in their boxes and into storage they go (I've nowhere to display them but more on that another time). With no prompting from me Vengit very generously donated the Sbricks to me enabling me at last to control my PF builds. As I'm sure you can imagine, this has made a unbelievable difference to me. Thanks Again Guys. Thank you also to Eurobricks member Zmei_gorini4 for making the flashing lights for me. Finally a big thank you goes to you, my freinds here at Eurobricks for your support, very kind comments, hints and tips. Now for some pictures. These were taken by Jake, apparently it was something 'he simply to do'. I'll be getting some better ones taken soon(ish) to replace them. Jake says 'he's cool with this'. Grandchildren, don't you just love 'em? Jake had the idea to use the Jack Stone Figures as with their knees being jointed they sit better on the seats. Also, they're a better scale wise. The normal Minifigures are too small & the Technic Guys, too big.

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Hi I've just bought a Dirt Crusher RC but the battery compartment cover is missing from controller. Does anyone have a controller that no longer works? If so I'd like buy the battery compartment cover from you. If any one can help I'd be grateful if you could PM me. Thank you.

Could this be Brums alter ego? For those of you who don't know, Brum's a car with his own series on UK TV. Here he is:

Simply stunning.

Astonishing! Truly astonishing! It's almost a piece of art. I could see this gracing many an owners desk. Supported.

Good Evening Everyone I'm sure this has been asked before and if I that's the case I'm sorry but I have looked but found nothing that answers my question completely. I'd like to know if a dedicated profile for Jurgens Ultimate 42009 exists anywhere as all I can find are 42009S profiles in a couple of different guises. I've tried using the Sbrick Profile Designer but haven't got enough control to be able move things about/re-size components to any degree of acceptability. Also, when I try to set up the Sbricks using my iPad 2 I get the message: 'The hardware/platform doesn't support Bluetooth Low Energy'. I know this is because the iPad 2 doesn't support Bluetooth 4.0 but does anyone know if there's a workaround for this? Any help or information would be very gratefully recieved. Thank you in advance.

Terrific build, instantly recogniable.

Great stuff! I agree about the colour though but hey, I makes a nice change from your usual grey

Don't be put off by negative comments. OK so your Lego plane may not fly but at least you'll have fun trying.

As beautiful as it is playable. My Grandchildren would love this.

Terrific build. Surely a place in the Hall of Fame awaits.

Stunning!

Brilliant UUV. Any chance of finding the watch I lost whist fishing of the coast of the Scilly Isles in 1976?

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This is BIG! You may need to think about a bigger house

Agreed

Phenomenal build with great video & photography showing it at it's best.

Nice review of a great MOC. Thank you.

Thank you Edwin. The stone is one of the coasters I use to press parts against to help join them together. It has highish straight edges that stops parts moving about or 'jumping up'. I hope this makes sense.

This will be the first PF build I'll be able to use as I've replaced the IR Receivers with a pair of Sbricks so yes, I'll have a little play with it. It'll not be a display piece as we've not got the room. It'll stay assembled for a while so Jake & George can play with it then it'll be taken apart ready for the day I get round to building the Grove GMK6400.

Thank you. I'm looking forward to seeing what it looks like it in one piece. Thank you.