Pattspatt

Thanks very much for the diagram! Very educational. Looks like it’d theoretically be possible to have two strings instead of three, by having the blue string (in the diagram) continue through its mounting point and replace the red string. Your solution has very nice visual symmetry, though - I can’t think of a way to have the best of both worlds.

Very cool! Love how elegant your clamshell design is, and your expanded gearbox works great! I want to make sure I understand how the clamshell works. I know it’s on two reels, and that operating the reels simultaneously raises/lowers the bucket, and operating one reel at a time opens/closes the bucket. I can’t work out the pathway of the strings, though. I assume both reels have separate strings, one end of each string attached to each reel. Where are the other string ends attached - both to the blue/white 3L beams? Could you show the inside of the clamshell’s “tackle block”?

Great work!! Impressive list of features, and all of them look to be very well implemented. Has the string been cut in half? A worthwhile sacrifice to experience this MOC, though. Would you be willing to share an image detailing the rear suspension? Is it an adapted version of your Stadium Truck?

Gorgeous and functional model - very impressed by how compact the gearbox and hi-lo selector are, and the suspension is very well executed and a fun novelty. I definitely plan to give this a try. I could be wrong, but from the video it looks like the gearbox order is reversed in a similar way to the 42110 A-model - e.g. the pistons move slower in low gears rather than the other way around. When I try your build I’ll see if I can change this, and maybe swap 4th gear for R. Thanks for making this great model! Looking forward to trying it out.

Amazing little build! As others have said, many creative solutions for so small a space. I agree that the functional handbrake is one of the best parts - very impressive that you managed to add it at the end when the build was already so fully-featured.

Great implementation and very creative - thanks for sharing!

Wow, amazing job - fully featured and very playable! I’m impressed that it has a drivetrain, with the fake engine in a realistic location, no less. Not a common feature of manual excavator models! How did you route the drive without a turntable? I’d love to see your solution.

Well done, especially at this scale. Lots of creative solutions, especially positive caster angle and the very compact engine. The convertible roof works and looks great! My one concern is the rear suspension - it looks like it relies on flex in the u-joints to work. In practice the springs are probably hard enough that it doesn't matter, but in principle it seems kind of like using a driveshaft as a leafspring. Edit: On closer inspection it looks like your rear axle has a floating diff! So nevermind - disregard my comment. Nice work!!

Wow, fantastic job, and it performs really well. Amazing that all those motors fit in there, and the exterior still looks so pretty! You’ve found a great solution for the extending boom, too.

Very impressive! Everything looks like it functions smoothly, and I think the aesthetics are great too. All that experience with cars and trucks looks to have translated!

Both of them look great! The bodywork is very impressive - no gaps, but it still flows naturally. I like the colors you’ve chosen, too. It’d be cool to see a video comparison of the two suspension set-ups you’ve got, if that’s in the works!

Looks wonderful! Great job on this project, the finished product is very impressive. Is there any chance of a video for the final rover?

Wow, this is amazing. Very impressed by how well you’ve designed such an unusual mechanism - it works great! Amazed that it can lift all those electronics so effortlessly. The tilting cab, fake motor, and fan visible through the front are cherries on top ??

Not related to the discussion on criticism, but re: the thread title, this hits the nail on the head for me. I was lucky enough to have started my most recent MOC before Covid really hit, but now the prospect of starting up another ~8 month process from scratch is now very intimidating. World events & quarantine can be pretty draining, and that might be affecting people’s creativity. Likewise I think “depression-lite” with the current state of things might be making people (including me) less likely to comment, and might be making even just a thoughtful comment seem like a more intimidating creative task than it would usually be. Not trying to diagnose anybody or anything, I just think it might be a contributing factor for some. I think Eurobricks has always had a “higher standard” of comment than other places to talk about Technic. Where else can you swap axle designs that include caster/kingpin inclination, get knowledgeable responses just from posting a schematic, etc. I’ve never seen that kind of interaction anywhere but here (in English, at least). I can’t imagine Facebook caring about a compact Macpherson strut suspension design if there wasn’t a car with pretty bodywork attached to it. Maybe that “higher standard” of discussion is more prone to suffer when world events are unusually depressing.

Several people have encountered this - according to one person, it’s ok to leave the 3L bar out of the build, and the stability won’t be affected. I haven’t tried this though, so hopefully it works! Glad you’ve been enjoying the build so far.

I also prefer the one to the right, except for the extra gap on that grill’s upper left. The red panels on the right give a much cleaner look in my opinion.

Oops, should have disassembled that more - those light gray ball things are just towballs-with-axle parts. Glad the only completely indecipherable step was for a side-build!

Thanks! Glad you like it :) It’s now on rebrickable; it took a little while to be approved: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-55079/Pattspatt/forklift-42110-b-model/#details Glad they’re working out for you so far. Yes, there are lots of gears (almost all the gears that were in the A-model’s drivetrain), and they all spin all the time, haha. The ones that generally gave me the most problems were the tan 20-tooth gears on the side DNR gearboxes - during mid-build testing, it’s worth testing those gearboxes in both switch positions. Luckily they’re fairly accessible throughout the build.

Very compact - I love that you managed to fit a working steering wheel + all that gearing up for the fake motor. Cool look to it, too!

Hi all - instructions are now complete! (Reverse teardown photos). I tried to make them as clear as possible - sort by Name, descending, to get them in the correct order. Let me know if there are any problems with the link. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10VAueyqqde0JfZyzRMm0Sj6I-fBRnxge

Fantastic, thanks for sharing!

I am completely astounded at the complexity of this MOC! Well done, this is an amazing achievement. While the unfolding operation may be a complicated process, I’m sure that is true to real life as well. In my opinion, 400g lifting capacity is more than enough - the main event for me is the unfolding, and the lifting/slewing capacity is plenty for playability. The performance is really stunning with all of the complex geometry and linkages. From the Flickr photos, it looks like there’s an LXF for this model. Will you be releasing it? I’d love to incorporate some of your solutions into future models of mine.

Before I take this apart, I wanted to show a side-build that I made with the leftover 42110 pieces - some cargo and a pallet rack. The cargo is a mini-Land Rover (roughly the size that the lego set would be), an I-3 engine, and some sort of filtration unit. The pile of spares is very small, now that all the leftover panels are used in the side builds. There’s a gif of the side builds in use at https://imgur.com/gallery/WKv96Fm. Next stop, teardown instructions.

Concrete Mixer 42112 uses four of the Technic Panel Curved 7x3 (24119) to make its propane tank, which is gives a 5 stud cylinder. Not sure if it’s a smooth enough look for your model, but it might be worth checking out.

If you go to Ldraw.org, it’ll explain better than I have. From what I understand, LDraw is the library itself, and Bricksmith is the mac application that uses it.