Komatsu WA500-6 by Fumotec

[Arnd]

Hi everybody,

I would like to show you some pics of my Komatsu WA500-6 from Fumotec









I will add some more picture from the set up.

[Espeefan]

Nice to see one of these new machines on the forum. What do you think of the WA500-6? I haven't heard very much about these wheel loaders, nor have we seen any real video footage of them operating. I'm surprised there aren't more builds or threads showing them off!

[Lil Giants]

It'd be great to see some video of it, if you have it?

[Arnd]

Hi,
at the moment I have only one video form the begining.
1. Test

You can see the wheelloader is playing with 3 x 1.5L full water-bottles. No ballast at the back. No problem at all.

I will do some additional video, but the weather was sooo bad.

[Arnd]

I will start at the beginning: I ordered the Komatsu Nov. 2012 and four weeks later I received a well packed carton with all the parts in it.



The manual is give in .pdf-form and need to be printed.

The metall parts are made of cold rolled steel.

and at the most parts it is spot-welded.

All weldings are good connected even you can finde holes, which need to be filled later before painting.

[JDH429]

Very nice machine and love the detail! Looks very sturdy and operates great. Thanks for sharing.

[louie r/c nut]

Nice piece of equipment looks like it is well made

[Espeefan]

Impressive lifting capacity! It seems to handle the water bottles, even without the hyrdaulics running at max flow.

[pigeonfarmboy]

Do want!!! This is my next purchase as soon as all the stars align!

[Arnd]

To work so easy you need a good hydraulic system.
The hydraulik pump is from Jung-Fluid.
In industry the pump is running with 80 - 100 BAR.



Here in the Komatsu the system is tested up to 30 BAR. I run 18 - 20 BAR.

The hydraulic cylinders come ready mounted.

[pigeonfarmboy]

I forgot to ask. I've not seen a photo of the Fumotec unit next to another model for size reference. I know it's larger than the 966 WDC but still haven't seen a size relevance photo. If you have a Tamiya truck or something common like that, and get a minute to snap a photo, I'd love to see this.

[apfubar]

FYI sizes:
WA500
Länge: 705mm
Breite: 230mm
Höhe: 270mm

Wedico 966:
Length: app. (612mm) 24.09", Width: app. (211mm) 8.31", Height: app. (250mm)9.84"

So the WA500 looks about 10% larger than the 966. Not sure how much heavier, but I suspect it is a lot... The 966 is only about 8kg(17lb).

I am sure some one can dig up a picture or two...

Interesting.
AP

[Arnd]

Weight : 13 kg

In original:
The WA500-6 is used in small minings.
It's not a machine to use on normal working ground.

CU

[Arnd]

I just checked the bucket 248 mm outside.

[Arnd]

Hello,

As wanted I did a snapshot of the wheelloader and a truck.
It´s my 1:12 Faun L908SA 6x6 trialtruck.





So you see the Komatsu is a little bit bigger than a normal wheel loader which can be found at a building yard.

[pigeonfarmboy]

Thanks for the photo. That Trials truck looks like a good time!

[Kaf343]

Looks like an awesome model, nice build

[Arnd]

thanks, yes the FAUN is a good time.
Yesterday I started to create an area to run my gardentrial-competition on next sunday.
In the past I did this by hand, now I used my Komatsu.
I did some video, looking forward to upload to youtube.

[Arnd]

Hello everybody,

until the videos are available on youtube I would like to show you more details from inside the FUMOTEC.

Four brushless outrunners are doing the job of driving.



Every motor is controlled by a single robbe roxy. The four controller are connected via double y-cable at one chanel.

Each motor has around 100w power.

They find there place of working in the axles.

[Arnd]

The videos of my yesterday action are online.
They are a little bit long, but I didn´t want to cut, so this is real live without any palliation. (I found a new word in dictionary )

Driving school Part 01

Driving school Part 02