Looking For Scale Clamshell Bucket Plans

[frizzen]

I can't wait to see what cool reference stuff comes out of the 9w collection!

You got me thinking why not try to convert a Nylint clamshell bucket, using as much of the stuff removed during the rc conversion of my Nylint. What could it look like if the factory were to have made one more complicated?



This uses the original tip mounted Hoist line pulley moved to the top between the 4 links, brass axle with lifting loop, and a cable guide with a W shape. Then the Boom angle pulley was removed from its bracket and installed with spacers at the bucket fulcrum. The buckets closer line ties off at the top axle, runs below the bucket hinge pulley, then up around the top pulley, to the cable guide and a ring where the Crowd line attaches.





Then i ran a Calming line from one of the buckets links, around a pin on the boom, to a fishing weight. It just needs enough weight to keep the bucket from rotating and tangling the lines, and enough length for the needed vertical travel.

Here's what the Nylint center close & lift pieces look like.



Thanks to truckmaker for the crane he sold me still having the clam so i could do this.