Forum: Truck Building Tech
11-20-2024, 09:35 PM
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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...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
11-08-2024, 10:49 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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. ...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
11-08-2024, 12:35 AM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
11-07-2024, 12:57 AM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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...
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Forum: Farm Tractors and Implements
11-05-2024, 11:30 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,697
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
11-05-2024, 11:14 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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?)...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
11-05-2024, 01:29 AM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
11-03-2024, 04:20 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
11-02-2024, 03:49 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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,...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
10-31-2024, 10:29 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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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Forum: Truck Building Tech
10-27-2024, 09:55 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
My digital angle gage is hard on batteries too, and it goes through three 2032's at one time.
I'm waiting on more parts to arrive, I was looking for a replacement pinion so I could build my...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
10-24-2024, 03:18 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
I love the little 4" caliper that I got at HF years ago, but I think I just got lucky with it. I need a caliper that I can trust for a reliable measurement over 4", so I bought an 8" Mitutoyo last...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
10-23-2024, 09:20 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
I don't use the calipers for any critical measurements. Harbor Freight WOULD have replaced them, but nobody within 100 miles had any 8" calipers to replace them.
I tried using a spline in Alibre...
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Forum: Tanks!
10-23-2024, 07:55 PM
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Replies: 10
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Re: Stuart T8 Recon
It's nice to see somebody else is still posting on here, I thought for a while that maybe I was just talking to myself. I loved your choice of background music in your video, ever see the movie...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
10-22-2024, 11:31 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
My 5mm ball bearing order arrived, so I put both front wheels on the axle. Here's a shot that shows a comparison of the overall widths of the axles....
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
10-20-2024, 11:22 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
10-10-2024, 08:45 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
OK, progress has been made - but it's been a LOT like doing the Hokey-Pokey. This is my current progress:...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
10-08-2024, 10:16 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
Last night I worked on the rear wheels, got the design done and started it printing before I went to bed. I think it looks pretty good, but it's got two major boo-boos and one "that just doesn't...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
10-06-2024, 08:20 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
10-06-2024, 01:34 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
Mine's a text document, with a very obscure name, that's on a thumb drive which never leaves my possession.
My work computers used to require us to change our password every 90 days. You...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
10-04-2024, 11:30 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
Pictures.... about that, there's been a hiccup.
I retired about a week ago and I've discovered since then that I REALLY depended on those work computers. Almost all of the forums that I'm a...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
10-02-2024, 10:58 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
OK, I have a mostly functional 3D printed Frankendiff. I modified the bearing pockets, as described above and that eliminated the booger caused by the bridging layer. Scaling the bearing pocket...
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Forum: General Discussion
09-27-2024, 08:03 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,759
Re: What happened?
frizzen:
What browser are you using? I'm running Chrome and I get/got the same warning. I went to the "Advanced" tab on the certificate warning page and clicked on the link that said to proceed...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
09-26-2024, 10:27 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
Something just didn't feel right to me, I had play in the pockets up and down, but not from front to back. So I got out the Opti-visor and gave things a look-see.
In most of the pockets there was...
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Forum: Truck Building Tech
09-25-2024, 11:30 AM
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Replies: 127
Views: 128
Re: 1/16 Scale FrankenDiff
Two steps forward, one step sideways, and one step back.
I measured all of the internal pockets on the diff halves, they were ALL consistently about 97.4% of the model size. That's the size I...
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