Mortymore

I ended recently my dark age of over 15 years with the Cherry Picker . I bought it from LEGO S@H and at the same time I bought also a XL motor, a IR receiver and the remote. Though you find far better jobs than the one I can present, you can see what I did in a 1st attempt with the Cherry Picker, here: It's very easy to integrate the IR receiver. You just have to unplug the motor cable from the battery box, if you already done all the assembly by the book, and then you plug the motor to one socket of the IR receiver, and the cable from the IR receiver you have to plug on the battery box. So you end up with the IR receiver bettween the motor and the battery box, and in this case the spining direction of the motor is no longer controled by the switch in the battery box, but by the control signals received by the IR receiver, sent by the remote. In my video I have used a second motor, so I can make de basket go up/down and rotate on both directions in a full remote controled manner. With only one motor you still have to use the switch built into the Cherry Picker to choose between functions up/down or rotate the basket. Good luck Regards

The weight of the vehicle is very important, and a good link track grip depend on it. With a heavy weight monster, there's probably no big deal, but with light weight vehicle like the 8294 excavator, that to make thing worst have a big bucket arm raising is gravity centre, it become easily slippery and lose grip. I don't have the 8275 Bulldozer, but if even with him people report low grip on flat surfaces, it isn't hard to see that with the 8294 excavator it's much worst. I sure agree with Front on this: cumps

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I bought a Technic 8294 excavator recently, and during construction, upon assembly of the linktreads I realyse that they do not grip on flat surfaces, as was the case of my glass table were I was assembling the excavator. So I went looking on the web for solutions, and didn't actualy find one that satisfied me. I know that most of LEGO funs are not willing to add non LEGO stuff to their creations, but to solve my slipering treads problem, I came up with the idea to add rubberbands to each linktread. And It worked just fine. Later I was told that LEGO might have their rubberbands that would do as well like x137, but I dind't tested this myself. Here's a picture How it's done Brickshlef pictures folder Later, after added PF motors to excavator, I though it could be nice to have instead of the usual 2 sticks on the remote control to drive the excavator, some sort of remote more on the car stile, with a stick for forward/reverse motion, and a wheel for steering. This is the result Brickshlef pictures folder Since this is actualy my first real post here, I hope I didn't mess up with some forum rule. If that's the case, my apollogies, and let me know were I went wrong so I do not make the same mistake again. Forgive if my english is not so good, and I hope you all manage to understand. Best regards

Hi! I'm from Portugal, and not long ago I passed through a dark age of some 15 years or so . As a young boy I loved mostly Space and Castle, though from space I could recently just recover some very used minifigs. From castle I still have the 375 set in fair good condition. My first awakwning took place when my wife offered me on my birthday the Ferrari Enzo 8653, but was some time later, and recently, that I really toke a new taste for LEGO, with 2 kids (a couple) joining the party (or providing me with an excuse ). Though I have some Duplo sets for the kids and some other minor LEGO sets, for my self pleasure I'm now more into Technic, and wishing to get my hands on Mindstorms. Best regards J. C. Barros (Mortymore)