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Forum: Construction Equipment 04-21-2025, 01:17 AM
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Posted By ddmckee54
Re: TH407C Telehandler 1:14 scale

Since you have a gearmotor for each wheel are you doing any mixing to get some differential action?
Forum: Truck Building Tech 04-12-2025, 02:41 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Sometimes I think Quality Control is a totally unknown concept in certain parts of the far-east. Some of the stuff is high quality, but there are a LOT of times when what you actually get is a kit...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 04-09-2025, 10:17 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

I have found out that I needed to slightly modify my Frankendiff pinion housing design. The hole for the drive shaft's drive pin wouldn't line up with the hole in the pinion shaft. I must have...
Forum: General Discussion 04-09-2025, 08:31 PM
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Views: 2
Posted By ddmckee54
Trucks and construction equipment

Question for you, what sites have you found that feature trucks and construction equipment that you would recommend? These are the sites I normally check on:

Here
RC Groups
Scale Builders...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 04-09-2025, 04:25 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 4,586
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: Tires for conversions

While I was looking for drive shafts to fit the Frankendiff, I found these. Drive shafts....
Forum: Truck Building Tech 04-08-2025, 05:49 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

One difference that I did notice between the 2 different sets of drive shafts I ordered is that one of the manufacturers wasn't particularly careful about getting the U-joints clocked properly. One...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 04-08-2025, 01:44 AM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Blender:

I sure did. Here's an Ebay listing with 5mm, 4mm, 3mm, and 2mm drive shafts - but they call them "steering shafts".
Drive shafts...
Forum: Construction Equipment 04-08-2025, 01:35 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 42
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: TH407C Telehandler 1:14 scale

Blender:

The extra holes are un-documented features. If Microsoft can get away with it so can we.

Don
Forum: Truck Building Tech 04-05-2025, 02:55 AM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

OK, I've found out that I'm going to have to revisit my chassis design a little. So far I've been sticking to the measurements taken off the Bruder MAN mixer, but that's gonna have to change a...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-28-2025, 05:04 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Wilf on MEM got a flexible pushrod to work using SolidEdge 2025. I don't think my version of Alibre has the brains, or the brawn to handle it.

Anywho...I updated the 3D model of the chassis to...
Forum: Highway Trucks and Trailers 03-18-2025, 11:53 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 12
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: Purple Nurple: ~1:12 Frobeliner cabover scratch build

Duke Leto Atreides II? Somebody's a Dune fan.
Forum: Highway Trucks and Trailers 03-18-2025, 08:48 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 12
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: Purple Nurple: ~1:12 Frobeliner cabover scratch build

What motor/gearbox are you using in the Nurple?
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-17-2025, 08:15 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

It doesn't really matter about the "flexible" setting, that was just one of those wild-haired ideas that smack me in the head once in a while - kinda like Gibbs and DiNozzo.
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-16-2025, 11:20 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

No problem.

A gentleman on HMEM suggested that if I lowered the cross-slide read-head I would free up that back corner of the cross-slide for normal use. I already had everything printed by that...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-15-2025, 02:53 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Further development on the steer axle is on hold for a week or so. The motor/2-speed gearbox, that I initially wanted to power the model with, uses a single 370 sized motor and has 3mm output...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-15-2025, 02:03 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

At one time I was considering putting the carriage and cross-slide scales parallel to each other. I was thinking of using something like a Sullivan Gold-N-Rod to link the cross-slide to the scale,...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-14-2025, 12:52 AM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Yes they can be trimmed. I cut about 3" off the original scales with a hacksaw. That got the job done, but the epoxy/glass board the actual scale's on was tough to cut. I used an angle grinder and...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-13-2025, 01:34 AM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

The scales upgrade on the Sherline is mostly complete. Here's what things look like from the front....
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-08-2025, 05:52 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

The new Igaging EZ-View Plus scales use a different protocol than their older DigiMag scales did. I know Yuri is working on it but I'm not sure if he's got his Touch DRO working with that protocol...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-06-2025, 09:57 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

For the last couple of days I've been working on Sherline mods. One of the mods I did earlier was to add some cheap Chinese scales with remote readouts to the carriage and cross slide, that was a...
Forum: Military Vehicles. 03-06-2025, 10:40 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 9
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: Grayhound 1/16 model Kit converted to RC

Another fine addition. You used the kit tires and wheels didn't you? Do you have a traction problems with them when driving it?
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-04-2025, 10:11 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

I know that Blender, Frizzen and I have all posted over on the Semi Truck and Construction Equipment forum of RCGroups. I'd never heard of the Scale Builders Guild until now, I just registered...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-03-2025, 09:11 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

I've got Design Pro V22, so I don't know about Atom. In Design Pro if you right click on the assembly in the Design Explorer, you get a drop down menu - Make Flexible is one of the options in that...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-03-2025, 01:08 AM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Constraining things to a plane is what I do - sometimes.

I placed an axis in the centerline of the axle bores, and I've got an axis on the pinion shaft centerline for each axle. The origin for...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 03-01-2025, 11:24 PM
Replies: 118
Views: 119
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

I think that I just might be starting to get a handle on this Alibre assembly crap. ...
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