Logging & Construction Equipment

[Lil Giants]

That's pretty trick Lou.

What's the volume of the oil tank made?

[derekwarner_decoy]

Lou....after spending 18 years as our Australian steel industry contract facilitator for cylinders, I am intrigued with the pair of double acting steering cylinders as shown

Lets consider....steer to the right = add pressurised fluid to the blind side of the left hand cylinder and at the same time add pressurised fluid to the rod side of the right cylinder

Sounds simple...yes, however without some form of proportional control, as the equal flow of pressurised fluid will retract the right cylinder faster than the left cylinder extending due to the annular difference or smaller surface area within the rod side of the right cylinder when retracting

PS.....your build looks amazing & I look forward to seeing it progress.............Derek

[tracksntreadslou]

Originally Posted by Lil Giants

That's pretty trick Lou.

What's the volume of the oil tank made?

Thanks Joe ..thinking it is close to 2.5 ounces by my math Joe ..should be enough I hope ..BTW what is the volume of a leimbach tank

Originally Posted by derekwarner_decoy

Lou....after spending 18 years as our Australian steel industry contract facilitator for cylinders, I am intrigued with the pair of double acting steering cylinders as shown

Lets consider....steer to the right = add pressurised fluid to the blind side of the left hand cylinder and at the same time add pressurised fluid to the rod side of the right cylinder

Sounds simple...yes, however without some form of proportional control, as the equal flow of pressurised fluid will retract the right cylinder faster than the left cylinder extending due to the annular difference or smaller surface area within the rod side of the right cylinder when retracting

PS.....your build looks amazing & I look forward to seeing it progress.............Derek

Thanks...kind of makes sense but it works ok with these small machines Now looking back at the pics i have to do some replumbing ..did you spot the error ..steering hoses need to be swapped around

[Lil Giants]

Originally Posted by tracksntreadslou

..BTW what is the volume of a leimbach tank

Standard tank is about 35ml. Your 2,5 fl ou = 73ml

[JAMMER]

Lou this is a master piece you should be very proud of this. It has a lot of detail in it just like the real ones Great Job keep it up. Ed

[tracksntreadslou]

Thanks Ed ..going to be great having a one of a kind model ..putting a little more effort into the detail .heres some more progress pics

[tracksntreadslou]

some of the bolts were in a pretty tight spot ..had tio bring out the big wrenches

[Cooper]

Wow Lou , really looking good!! Scrapers are one thing I would love to have in the fleet!!

[TRUCKMAKER]

Definitely the ultimate in modeling!

[RCP57]

Beautiful job Lou. You're working that little cnc hard now!

[steamer]

Awsome work is all I can say, Lou!!! The detail really makes it look more like the real thing with every post.

[Stuff]

pretty sweet!!

[Trucker_Jo]

Absolutely killing it, great job lou!

[Cooper]

I should send you some of my workers to swing those wrenches .

You know you need to make another one of these, push/pull working!!!

[thebigo]

You have awesome ability, thanks for the posts.

[tracksntreadslou]

Hey thanks for all your comments guys..on a roll..get er dun

Originally Posted by Cooper

I should send you some of my workers to swing those wrenches .

You know you need to make another one of these, push/pull working!!!

Bahaha ..I like that idea ..you talking about nutters ? ..that where he is getting his nick name ..lol
I could of used him today ..was working on the hydraulics

[speedy8305]

Now Lou you stop showing off lol

[speedy8305]

looks great BTW

[Efroeh]

What axles are you using? Amazing builds.

[tracksntreadslou]

Thanks speedy ..glad you like it

Originally Posted by Efroeh

What axles are you using? Amazing builds.

Thanks ..i am using axles off a tamiya Juggernaut..i hope they work