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[Finster]

Not sure what it's going to be yet, but nice machining job on the wheels/hubs. Where'd you get those motors if you don't mind me asking?

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by kaptain Jack

My god. You making a tractor,or a loader? or 1/10 scale four wheel drive truck....
I give up.

Your on the right lines Kaptain

Originally Posted by Tinbender

I will take a wild guess.

From the looks of the tires and the fact that the rims have only 8 lugs holding them to the hubs, I would say it is going to be a bobcat type of loader.
With those tires and anything larger, there would have to be more lugs nuts/bolts holding the rims to the hubs.

Now you have my 2 cents worth. BTW I hate secrets...LOL

The 1:1 has 10 wheel bolts but I went with 8, those 2mm holes are a sod to tap!

Originally Posted by Finster

Not sure what it's going to be yet, but nice machining job on the wheels/hubs. Where'd you get those motors if you don't mind me asking?

Thanks, the motors came from here:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/22newcentu...84.m1439.l2654

A few clues:
It has 4x equal size wheels/tyres
Is artic steer
And remember what section this is in

Thanks for looking
Stu

[Finster]

Thanks for the info on the motors. Maybe I should know this, but I don't. What is artic steer?

[Grainfarmer]

Nice rims! Looks great...

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Finster

Thanks for the info on the motors. Maybe I should know this, but I don't. What is artic steer?

No worries, Artic = Articulated i.e it bends in the middle

Originally Posted by Grainfarmer

Nice rims! Looks great...

Thankyou

[Grainfarmer]

Avec plaisir...

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Grainfarmer

Avec plaisir...

Danke

I found this at my local scrap metal merchants, 5 meters of 50mm ally bar and a 2.5 meter piece of 20x60, I picked them up for 50€



Not sure what grade it is but it machines lovely, started roughing out the first motor mount:







Motor is a good fit:



Not bad for an old Colchester student lathe which incidentally before starting my first wheel for this project was the last lathe I used at school over 20 years ago!

Hope to get more done over the weekend.
Grüße
Stu