Forum: Construction Equipment
09-02-2025, 11:55 PM
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Views: 16
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Forum: Construction Equipment
09-01-2025, 08:36 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 16
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Forum: Construction Equipment
08-30-2025, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 16
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Forum: General Discussion
08-10-2025, 10:08 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,759
Re: What happened?
Zabco:
I hate FB with a passion. A few years back I joined FB for the express purpose of purchasing a 1976 IH Cub Cadet that was listed on FB Marketplace. I tried to set up a time with the seller...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
08-09-2025, 01:24 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 4,586
Re: Tires for conversions
Cults3d.com has a number 3D printed molds for tires in a variety of scales. Most of the available videos show a 2 part pourable casting silicon being used, but a couple of them use the silicon...
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Forum: Highway Trucks and Trailers
06-06-2025, 01:39 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 21
Re: ~1:12 Miller Century M100 Rotator wrecker
That's a nice looking beasty.
Having designed industrial control systems for half of my 35 years as an electrical engineer I can feel your pain about the wiring. Neat wiring is a good thing, but...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
05-17-2025, 12:11 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
The Jeep Rubicon and the Subaru WRX are still available with a stick. Up until '23 the Jeep Renegade was available, but then they phased out the Renegade in the states. I had 169,000 miles on my...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
05-16-2025, 12:54 AM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
Remember that saying, "May you live in interesting times"?
Well, it's been an interesting couple of weeks - my car got totaled. Nobody got hurt, and no charges were filed, but I've still gotta...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
04-27-2025, 10:07 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
I had wanted a resin printer for years, but had a tough time deciding to pull the trigger on one - couldn't justify the cost. Then I stumbled on an Ebay certified refurbished Halot Mage S for under...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
04-26-2025, 10:48 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
Lesu makes a driveshaft with a 40-45mm range, but I've only got 37mm between the center axle and the rear axle. If I move the center axle forward it will center the tires better in the fender. ...
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Forum: Construction Equipment
04-21-2025, 01:17 AM
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Replies: 46
Views: 47
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
04-12-2025, 02:41 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
04-09-2025, 10:17 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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...
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Forum: General Discussion
04-09-2025, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 2
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...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
04-09-2025, 04:25 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 4,586
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
04-08-2025, 05:49 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
04-08-2025, 01:44 AM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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...
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Forum: Construction Equipment
04-08-2025, 01:35 AM
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Replies: 46
Views: 47
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
04-05-2025, 02:55 AM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
03-28-2025, 05:04 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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...
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Forum: Highway Trucks and Trailers
03-18-2025, 11:53 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 12
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Forum: Highway Trucks and Trailers
03-18-2025, 08:48 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 12
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
03-17-2025, 08:15 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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.
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
03-16-2025, 11:20 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
03-15-2025, 02:53 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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...
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