Milan

Amazing model, and it has very thick look, almost like it is built with bricks, great use of studless parts. Size is perfect for those wheels, colors are great, too, and I like stickers at the side and back. If this is a real life model, it is always a good idea to post picture of original real vehicle. Your link is not good, HERE is a proper one for your DAF on flickr:

Barman has some.

You should upload image to other site, like Brickshelf, and link it here. This should help.

Wheels are the same, they are just not align perfectly. Here is real life example of this setup. Note how gears on this picture are also placed in a way that axles are parallel, but not in a line.

We have small actuators directly from LEGO (LA, and mLA) The idea that Swissbager had was to build big and strong LA that would not twist under load and which could be used in his mobile crane.

Care to explain what will be better from what? I have presented two different LA concepts.

will you publish a small video of them, and what will be the price?

8868 had dual diffs.

No, there are 4 PF XL motors used for propulsion.

Just keep trying until satisfied. I your expectations are high, it wont be anytime soon. But that is the best part, for me.

No, there is no slippage in the rubber belt in the compressor unit at any time with one belt. I tried both solutions. As suspected, when there is larger pulley, and pressure is built, the motor slows down, but not so drastically as with two smaller pulleys. But I did notice slight improvement in speed of pneumatic movements in smaller pulleys setup, because of the higher RPMs achieved, of course.

I am interested in this, too.

In the instructions, only one rubber band is used, on one large wheel, however, on the box art and other papers that come with the set, there are two pulleys and two rubber bands.

Your style of building is clearly visible here. Nice work on the SNOT!

Dennis Bosman has a site.

You can see the brown one in the link Bricksonwheels provided in the first post. It is a conversion of this truck LINK.

I think Sok meant that such a motor would drain very much power (from battery).

And very good for propulsion and steering on heavy and slow vehicles.

Technic is not always uneven. Only the studless are uneven, there are still plenty of old Technic bricks and plates to use. I would not say that new parts has to be uneven. I like the new 8878 Battery Box for its even number of studs.

Beautiful!

Cylinders long as allanp showed are actually better for anything else, not for cranes. Huge weight of the crane boom would bounce and would easily compress cylinder, especially when lifting something. The one that you suggested are good for majority of construction equipment.

If you mean this bigger JCB yes, i did it. There is one much smaller, but i used normal LAs there. I dont have MLCad file for this brick builtLA on this computer i am using now, will post it later, but i hope this video can help you a bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI-o7h7Uh9o

The best and strongest design is this (from Erik Leppen's gallery, but Swissbager had one built long time ago, don't know who made it first): I made even smaller and equally strong actuators here: You can make the ram as long as you want in both cases shown.

Use that reference pic you provided at the beginning of the tread, enlarge it so the tires on that pic are approx 80mm (like the real tires you are using on the truck) and then measure the cab height from the pic. That is actual cab height you are looking for That way you can make pretty accurate scale mode. It is easier to do that when you have PDF file.

VERY industrial look! Great!