50's Vintage T-24 Crane Truck W/Clam Shell
 

If you train your kid's right this is what you get. My daughter was visiting a friend in a little town in mid-Michigan and found this in an antique store. I haven't seen it yet beyond the photos. She won't be home from school until Thanksgiving.

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I would like to convert it to R/C eventually with out hacking it up any more than necessary.
Thanks for looking,
Kent

Re: 50's Vintage T-24 Crane Truck W/Clam Shell
 

Nice find, your kid done good. :cool:

Looks like plenty of interior space for rc components. ;)

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Thanks Joe, it does appear that if I can get inside without doing damage that I should be able to make things fit. My biggest concern is driveline but until I get it in hand I won't be sure.
She actually called and asked if I wanted her to bring it home this weekend!

Re: 50's Vintage T-24 Crane Truck W/Clam Shell
 

Given its covered body, maybe a Tamiya chassis would fit? A motor with a high reduction gearhead hooked directly to the driveshaft/diffs to keep a low profile chassis. ;)

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Kent,

That looks exactly like the one I found a few months ago! Mine does not have the extra center boom section. I have not studied it too much yet and I'm sure when I convert mine I'll start with the crane and save the drivetrain for stage two.

I'll be very happy to let you lead this conversion! :rolleyes:

Please take lots of good pictures and provide detail so I can coast when I do mine!:D

Jim

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Thanks Jim, you will probably beat me to it. I wasn't expecting this and it wasn't even on my radar but since my daughter found it I wasn't going to pass it up! It's about 5 lines down on the project list!

Kent

Re: 50's Vintage T-24 Crane Truck W/Clam Shell
 

Kent,

In one ofthephotos, the center boom section is white. Does it seem like it was an add on part or something? Wonder if I might find that part someplace?

I don't recall, do you have this in your hands now, or are you still just looking at pictures like me?

Jim

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I do have it at the house now. I'm not sure where that section came from but it almost looks like Nylint made it. There is/was a company out there that made various conversions for this unit but they discontinued them. Here is the link to the company, They have a lot of interesting stuff! http://www.ccmodels.com/cranes-shovels-C-24-crane.shtml

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Thanks for the link! With the truck mounted units like we have I know I'm going to want to order some stuf from them!:rolleyes:

Jim

Re: 50's Vintage T-24 Crane Truck W/Clam Shell
 

Your welcome! Keep us up to date on your progress, need pictures!

Re: 50's Vintage T-24 Crane Truck W/Clam Shell
 

that is a score!! wow!