1/16 Bucyrus-Monighan Walking Dragline

[lorenzo]

Now you're talking about I remember (I'm getting old ). Maybe you coud use a cooking plate to pre heat the fixture and the brass parts.

[9W Monighan]

Originally Posted by lorenzo

Now you're talking about I remember (I'm getting old ). Maybe you coud use a cooking plate to pre heat the fixture and the brass parts.

I do take the torch and heat the 25.4mm square bars to get them warm but not really hot.

[lorenzo]

That's a way too .

[9W Monighan]

Smallhaul Scott, I finally pulled the drag out of the crate after 4 months this evening and hooked up my new Spektrum DX7. It seemed to work flawlessly on the swing and drag. I didn't put the temporary boom on yet to see the real pain," The Hoist Function". I'm sure it'll work fine too. I was fooling around with the dual rate and figured out how that works. That will come in handy for a beginner or possibly aid in truck loading. Another would be,if there's enough torque on that low of a setting, "Walking"
I am getting ready for some soldering work this weekend and hopefully have the first boom section done.

[SmallHaul]

Originally Posted by 9W Monighan

Smallhaul Scott, I finally pulled the drag out of the crate after 4 months this evening and hooked up my new Spektrum DX7. It seemed to work flawlessly on the swing and drag. I didn't put the temporary boom on yet to see the real pain," The Hoist Function". I'm sure it'll work fine too. I was fooling around with the dual rate and figured out how that works. That will come in handy for a beginner or possibly aid in truck loading. Another would be,if there's enough torque on that low of a setting, "Walking"
I am getting ready for some soldering work this weekend and hopefully have the first boom section done.

That is great Steve. You can also try about 30 positive expo on the swing too make that smooth too. 2.4ghz is awesome, you can almost enclose it in metal and it won't glitch or loose signal.

[9W Monighan]

Lots of progress this weekend. Almost all of the tubing is soldered together on the first section but ran out of time. I can't wait to be able to pick it up from the jig and hold it without worrying about it falling apart in my hands
I can't take any pictures yet because my camera is not working properly. I'm in the process of buying a new one now.
I'm thinking about a: Nikon S8100

[SonoranWraith]

Originally Posted by 9W Monighan

I'm thinking about a: Nikon S8100

Looking forward to the soldered piece/work of art when you get the pics. My wife wants this camera. I guess we'll see your pics for evaluation.

[td9clyde]

can't wait for more pics i don't know how all you guys can build these cranes i guess i don't have that good of paitents everything is so intricut and detailed nice work keep up the great work

[modelman]

Looking really good steve! Are you making the boom so it can be partially dis-assembled?

[Stuff]

hard to believe it is 1:16 yet so large!! very nice job!

[td9clyde]

wow blink blink can't beleive my eyes that thing is huge very nice work

[9W Monighan]

Thanks everybody. Tom, I'm making as close to real as possible and it will come apart. Maybe I'll need to haul it on a scale lowboy.
Well now I've reached another mile stone. The bottom section is now complete out side of walkway and light brackets of course. When I took it out of the jig I was totally impressed how strong this thing is! I just had to mount it on the machine to see how it looks, and Henry can now see how big this is getting.
Please bear with me as I haven't got the new camera figured out yet.


First time on!

[td9clyde]

wow that crane is huge !!!!!!!!! very percision and precice work awsome job keep it up and keep the pics goin nice work

[td9clyde]

whoow what is that lil cat in the shelf??

[pugs]

Nice work and nice shop

[kerst]

Looks great!

Kerst

[9W Monighan]

Henry, Look in my 1:1 topic but that's my kids toy I built him back in 97' It's just a little Struck Mini Dozer I modified to resemble a Cat D4C about 1/2 scale I added a hydraulic blade also.
Pugs, That's only about 1/4 of my shop, there's more back in the darkness. We have about 12,000 sq.ft.

[9W Monighan]

I got a few pieces cut this weekend on the second or middle 30-3/4'' (41') boom section. I had to do some serious filing and sanding to remove the machine marks from the Tee chord sections too.
I could have gotten more done but had the urge to operate the machine with the temporary boom on for about 2+hrs




Some tubes cut for both sides

[modelman]

Looks like you are making some progress steve-are you pleased with the way the model works with the boom section on? Is it strong?

[rc_farmer]

I would really like to see this model in person one day. Its gonna be an awsome model.