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  1. cheeze
    Looks awesome!! I seen it in the local papers (the mail I think it was) fantastic detailing on it. Your from the Arbroath area are you not?
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    After seeing the other post re the crawler crane i had though i would update mine also. Heres a minifig for scale on the main body these are all the parts required for the building, i tried to make it as modular as possible for moving around So the build begins with the rear mast being lifted Now the boom foot is fitted And the boom tip to rear mast And now the full boom and Luffing arms are ready to lift, from boom tip to ballast is about 3 meters Slow progress But we eventually get there with it I was never really happy with the floating ballast tray as at certain points you had to balance it just right with different weights which became troublesome and i had a few tip overs i decided to give a ballast car another go Heres the floating tray Looks fine and simple but the problem comes when you want to slew around, youd have to lower the boom enough so the tray would start to float, Go to far and that was it wanting to tip. So this was the solution, both sets of wheels are powered so i can slew with the full amount of weight on it, this is powered by old 9v at the moment where as the main crane is via 2 sbricks, i may try get some PF hooked up and try that way And a quick video of it running
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    This might not be do-able but can you not run the guy lines from the boom head instead of half way up the boom?
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    I know that jaaptechnic made one for huibs ltm11200. No stop mine seperate ng I used a a couple of 2x4 plate with holes and popped a long nut and bolt through the turntable to a 1x6 technic brick on its side with two nuts to stop it winding off when slewing.
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    I collect cold war items. As part of a team restoring a cold war nuclear bunker. We have a large amount of items to "show" on tours. Random I know
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    I use a 2mm needle thrust bearing on my crawler crane. I have an old technic turntable that keeps it all central. Something like this http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=161113406154&alt=web I know it's not genuine lego but it works for me
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    Looks ace. This is the workings in use for my crane for counterweight etc So if you have a load of 1kg measure from the centre of load to the base of the boom (say 50cm) so 1000gx50cm =50'000g then measure from the boom base to the rear of the counterweight (say 25cm) 50'000÷25=2000g so to lift 1kg at 50cm you'll need 2kg of counterweight. Hope this helps
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    Better man than me then. I have 4 M motors in the lower half all running from sbrick. 2xl in the upper running winches 1/2 and 4 again sbrick with the other 2 channels heading for main boom foot winch and the rear mast foot winch. https://flic.kr/p/qR2ZJa
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    Ah I didn't use scaler. I just worked from the sizes on the page and scaled them down 1:27 in my case. 2x8 plates are perfect for 2m track pads at that size!
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    Looks good John. I did an Lr1300 before my Lr1600. Was my first real model from my return of building. Was a good learning curve for me. I don't know if you use these pdf from Liebherr page. Again they are full of handy info I found. http://www.liebherr.ca/CR/en-GB/products_ca-cr.wfw/id-8709-0/measure-metric/tab-6015_1503
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    I cheated and drilled out the axle hole in the pulley. I know you can get 3d printed ones from effermans shape way shop, but at £1.84 each was to much when my crane uses nearly 40 of them! I really need ones with a deeper groove so the string doesn't jump out all the time. Here's a link to shapeways http://www.shapeways.com/product/2LCEBFCDA/pulleywheel-without-crosshole?li=user-profile&optionId=19923231 and the reeving I have to do on the rear of my crane
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    Just have to work on the pivot, i dont know how Huibs if fixed, im a crawler crane man myself, and i have the boom only held with a 3l axle with stop
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    Heres something for your inspiration https://www.flickr.com/photos/94115249@N02/ Are you going for full function on it?
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    Id have never thought about using the side off the old ferris wheel Milan, very good idea. ive cheated on my LR1600 and use a 2mm 3 piece thrust bearing. But im not taking part in the competition Wheels seem to be a love/hate thing i guess but again fantastic idea and looking forward to the finished machine
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    Great example of the real machine, look forward to a video of it in action
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    I use a line called Dyneema Spectra Extreme Braid Fishing Line for my crane. The thickest one is .55mm and at 100lb very strong. It's also very cheap. If you have a few runs over pulleys it can get a bit tricky keeping the line on the pulleys if your using the larger ones as you reeve the model
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    Bit of an update Im slowly getting to the stage of being happy with this, ive now got the lower section controlled via an s-brick for left and right track and also 2 m-motors for slewing 360. ive done a weight test since the last update and managed 6kg with a short boom setup and 1.5kg with full boom and a section of luffing jib So heres a few photos and a small video of crawling and slewing from an sbrick controller 1.5kg at about 1meter radius 6kg lift at closest radius possible S-brick controlling tracks and 2x M-motors for slewing 360
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    Fantastic build good to see another crawler crane fanatic, Certainly is impressive in its height anyway, and dwarfs mine at 3m tall so far. DSC_0022 by steven west, on Flickr
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    I cheated on my crawler crane by using a small nut and bolt setup between two 2x1 blocks and was able to hold 6kg just being held by plates
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    Which ones Kisper?
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    Another small update on this crane, im currently building a luffing jib and have changed to a floating ballast tray so on with some pics The luffing arms so far 5 section main boom floating tray 4kg of ballast And fully equipt
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    At the cost they are. Seeing as you were going to use them, I think I'd rather just drill out original lego pulleys. But good idea
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    <p>On my crawler I drilled out the pulleys for that reason. I found that they all rotate at different speeds depending where they are in the block. I'm running 12 pulleys in the main body and the same again on the A frame. Hope this image helps what I
  24. cheeze
    Thats a rather funky looking crane, Again its the same story with the good old technic turntable not being the best for such an application
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    I cheated and used one of these http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/bearing-roller-thrust.gif,
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