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[Lil Giants]

I haven't done anything with the bilge pump.. I intend to use the green GL to carry the water tank, removing the dirt box takes no time, but I've been using that trk daily in the quarry. A very slow drip with the garden hose is working really well atm for soaking up a large area deeply over night.

And I have been doing alot fixing lately too.. got my dozer working again, turned out the gh motor broke loose from its glued mounting ring, glued it back in a wk ago.

I got this Scale Art loader last spring used from a guy in the states.. I'm not overly impressed with it and now 6 months later the Carson is available & it looks 10x better for function! I sent S/A a note asking how to increase hyd press? They never replied. This loader lifts so slow with a bucket full of dirt & won't lift at all if I'm pushing into the pile. I've had the tracks off twice now to fix the drives.. 1st was a roll pin deep inside the gearbox, I used a 1/16 drill bit cut to length in place of the roll pin. Now the drive pin in the drive sprocket sheared off ...these drive motors have a ton of power! Some 2mm drill bits showed up in the mail yesterday to make the fix.



Something I noticed right away with the S/A loader was how poor the bucket radius was near ground level.. currently I have plastic bucket on it from a Bruder 963 & it's distance from the top link to the arm pivot is about 5mm less than oem. But the Bruder bucket is about the same width as the oem & they're both too narrow, there's about 3mm of track sticking out either side. I need to make a new bucket.. next yr's project in my new workshop.



Some dump angle has been lost at the very top of the lift arm travel, a new design for the z link needs to be done too.



I've also been tinkering at the mystery model I got last Spring, got to get it done for this summers activities outside.



I got a new battery yesterday, 180amps, that'll fit nicely in the nose of D9Joe's dozer, gets some needed weight upfront.. just gotta tear out the hyds & electronics to redo it all, get this model working as good as it looks.





I've been eyeballing the blue hyd-lift bench that D8R Dan's 1/5,6 scale dozer sits on in all his pics, they're both probably the same bench (820mm x 520mm).. gives you a nice comparison shot at the difference in the two scales of virtually the same dozer.





And nearly everyday for a few hrs, either digging down in the floor or processing last yr's dirt from the wall (which is now dry) & using it for backfill.. that dirt is almost gone & the cribwall might be half full. I'll take pics later of the digging I've done lately.

That should be enough to keep your moejoe going for awhile, eh Greg?!

[ihbuilder]

"Some dump angle has been lost at the very top of the lift arm travel, a new design for the z link needs to be done too."

I have the same issue on my 990 . When scaling off the the sales brochure it's hard to get the right shape of the pivot bar .With my archaic cad program it's hard to simulate the movement .Good note to that is I got a new 1 made up that should fix it . I'm surprised that with what they are brought up to be , they don't have the means to simulate before production or worked it out with the prototype . I guess if no one complained no need to worry

would be nice to see that D9 south again this spring . hint hint

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Originally Posted by ihbuilder

"Some dump angle has been lost at the very top of the lift arm travel, a new design for the z link needs to be done too."

I have the same issue on my 990 . When scaling off the the sales brochure it's hard to get the right shape of the pivot bar .With my archaic cad program it's hard to simulate the movement .Good note to that is I got a new 1 made up that should fix it . I'm surprised that with what they are brought up to be , they don't have the means to simulate before production or worked it out with the prototype . I guess if no one complained no need to worry

would be nice to see that D9 south again this spring . hint hint

IhSteve,

What CAD are you using and does it do 3D?

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Lil' Giant,

Who makes Carson?, is it a loader? and are those the one piece metal tracks on your 963?

[MitzuRazing]

I've also been tinkering at the mystery model I got last Spring, got to get it done for this summers activities outside.

I remember seeing some big tires in one of your pictures last year, I am betting this is a Bell 4206 Am I right or what?