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Forum: Truck Building Tech 12-24-2024, 11:43 PM
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Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Christmas miracles do still happen - sorta.

Yesterday, 12/23/24, I received an odd shaped package in the mail, in it were 6 axles for WLToys 12428/12423 1/12 cars. I ordered these axles in mid...
Forum: Military Tech. 12-18-2024, 11:55 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 4
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: Red Ball Highway

I just saw this on Dark Docs on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5NiXMYrntc

Don
Forum: Military Tech. 12-12-2024, 03:25 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 4
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: Red Ball Highway

Cool, I just watched the 1952 " Red Ball Express" on YouTube a few days ago.
Forum: Construction Equipment 12-11-2024, 10:51 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 28
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: Gradall XL5100 V 1/14 Scale 3D Printed

Evercoat is good stuff, I've used it before on styrene models for filling seams and gaps.
Forum: Construction Equipment 12-10-2024, 05:28 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 28
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: Gradall XL5100 V 1/14 Scale 3D Printed

Shawn:

I've got a couple of questions on your body-work. What type of filament are you using? Do you sand the layer lines out, or do you fill them in? If you fill them in what are you using for...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 12-10-2024, 05:01 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

I "WAS" going to print out a new lower die for the U-bolt bender, so I could try my idea of using the brass tubing to protect the threads when bending the legs. My printer had other ideas though, I...
Forum: General Discussion 12-08-2024, 12:59 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 3
Posted By ddmckee54
Cold blue for rust protection

After my brain-fart of knocking my Sherline off the bench a couple of weeks ago, and mostly repairing the aftermath of said boo-boo - I was left with several steel parts that now have scars on...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-25-2024, 04:13 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Well, I got some parts today, my axle order arrived and I got the 2mm ID tubing I ordered.

Not my first order of axles, this was the second batch that I ordered. Surprisingly, or maybe it wasn't...
Forum: Construction Equipment 11-25-2024, 03:28 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 42
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: TH407C Telehandler 1:14 scale

Brass is easier to work with, but Blender uses a jewelry welder to stick things together. You can solder brass, but it's crap to try and weld - the zinc boils off.

Steel brake line might work...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-24-2024, 09:31 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Blender - Almost 50 years ago my first job was in maintenance in a plant that made plastic laminates of various types and thicknesses. I got some of the reject pieces before I left. I'm using a...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-24-2024, 02:36 AM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

A squared off U-bolt is what I'm aiming for. But.... that's gonna be on hold - at least for a little while.

Meanwhile I'm going to nominate myself for Bone-head of the Week-Month-Year. (Take...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-22-2024, 11:14 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Zabco:

Yeah, I remember Monkey Wards. Now that you mention it, it might have been a Wards catalog store. I know a couple years later when I bought my stick welder and my band saw, THEY came...
Forum: Construction Equipment 11-22-2024, 10:22 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 42
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: TH407C Telehandler 1:14 scale

I know what you mean, it seems like there's only a handful of us that are regularly checking in on the site anymore.
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-22-2024, 02:27 AM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

The 1/4-20 bolts that go through the bottom die form the outside of the U-bolt legs. I just counter-sunk the end of the slot in the top die and that helps to form the inner radius of the U-bolt...
Forum: Construction Equipment 11-22-2024, 12:44 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 42
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: TH407C Telehandler 1:14 scale

Don't worry about disappointing us, most of us have at LEAST one or more of those long term projects.

I'm guessing that you had the parts laser cut, is that expensive? A couple of years ago one...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-20-2024, 09:35 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Well, my shipment of donor axles failed to arrive. Apparently the US Postal Service lost my order, they were the last to touch it on October 29th - after that the order apparently disappeared into...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-08-2024, 10:49 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

OK, the second verse is ALMOST a repeat of the first, and I've got pictures to prove it.

This is the parts of the first die. ...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-08-2024, 12:35 AM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Well, the first attempt was an outstanding failure, which was not unexpected. It produced a rounded, sorta U-shaped object - whose legs were within a millimeter of being equal. However, I was...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-07-2024, 12:57 AM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

I had a brain fart a little while ago, I came up with a way to bend 2mm U-bolts for the springs using 3D printed dies. Right now it's just a paper sketch. Tomorrow, I'll get it in CAD and print the...
Forum: Farm Tractors and Implements 11-05-2024, 11:30 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 2,697
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: International Harvester Farmall 1256 (1967-69)

So the old farmer is buildin' a pullin' tractor, not a plowin' tractor? Got a sled so he can show how to do full pulls at the next show?
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-05-2024, 11:14 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

OK, as promised we'll open up the picture page. (Who besides me still remembers the jingle for Picture Pages?)...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-05-2024, 01:29 AM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Progress is being made, even if I don't have any pretty pictures to prove it. (I forgot to get a snapshot of the suspension assembly before I called it a day.) I will try to update the assembly...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-03-2024, 04:20 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

I've given up on making a functional suspension assembly - at least for now. It seems like every time I add another part to the assembly, and try to constrain that part, it breaks a half a dozen...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 11-02-2024, 03:49 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

Zabco:

I found about the sub-assemblies after about the 2nd or 3rd time my suspension assembly tried self-destructing the axle on me. I tried to pivot the axle around the equalizer beam pivot,...
Forum: Truck Building Tech 10-31-2024, 10:29 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 120
Posted By ddmckee54
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff

For the last couple of days I've been playing with assemblies in Alibre. So far I'm batting 1000, I've managed to break every one of them that I've tried - but I'm learning from my mistakes. That...
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