New member. Building D8

[Fired up]

Had more time to work. A cnc would be nice. Lol table saw and jig saw is slow.

[Fired up]

Body work.

[Fired up]

Small parts.

[Fired up]

Riveting it together.

[Lil Giants]

There's no duty. You'll pay 5% GST & whatever your provincial sales tax is when you receive the parcel.

Payment is usually done with a bank wire, but you could ask if they have paypal or other.

[Fired up]

Great thanks for info. I have decided to go hydro. Ordering from premacon pump fittings,hose extra. Here's what I've done today.

[Cooper]

I'm curious to know what motors you went with, and controllers? I'm building a d11 and haven't decided what setup to go with. So I'm always trying to figure out what others do.

[Fired up]

I am using the same motors as rclogger. Watched his videos and they seem to work very well. I am using the sabourtooth 2/25 Controller. I have had it hooked up and seems to work really good. I weighed my d8 with out electics hydraulics and no blade and it was 36lbs. I figure when done be around 50lbs. Hydraulics are ordered hope to see them in a couple weeks. I have most of the building done. Time to tare it apart to get some paint on it.

[DADSGARAGE]

Nice job on the dozer build..keep up the good work!!

[Fired up]

Thanks far cry from some of the detailed builds on this forum hope it works as good as some that I have seen here.

[Espeefan]

Nice work, Fired up. What sort of metal working equipment do you have at your disposal? Even if you don't think your dozer is quite as detailed as some others, I think it looks great. Just shows that sometimes you don't necessarily need a lot of fancy CNC equipment to make a nice functional model.

For window glass, you could always go with some clear, thinner acrylic plate, or maybe some polycarbonate / lexan sheet, cut to size. Maybe make some gaskets out of sheet styrene to hold the 'glass' in place (sandwiched between the cab walls) on both sides, or maybe an aluminum window frame on the inside of the cab wall, slightly smaller then the window opening itself, so that the glass can be glued into that resulting window pocket with a clear drying canopy glue for models.

[tracksntreadslou]

Wow you Build fast and awsome work ..I have been watching from the start and now lookinf forward to some dirt pushing vids ..awsome ..keep up the great work
I was at my local liquidation world and found some very cheap smoked clear totes ..less than an 3/32 thick ..Should work for my grader windowws

[Fired up]

Thanks for your encouraging words. All I have far as metal working equipment is a small metal lath. Every thing else I have is for woodworking. Far as glass I picked up some lexan. At a glass shop. May not be pushing much dirt for a while we got 17 inch of snow last week and calling for more this weekend.

[Fired up]

Here's the new addition. To my small fleet. I needed something to Haul my dozer. Now to build a deft trailer and a dump trailer. After dozer gets finished.

[Fired up]

Well I do not have a lot of time this time of year my shop turns into santas work shop as I usually have some kind of Christmas gift to build. This year it's a fire place. But I did get a half hour and put together my interior I primed it and it's waiting for finish paint. I hope to see my hydraulics the end of this month. Thanks for looking. And merry Xmas to all.

[DADSGARAGE]

Originally Posted by Fired up

Thanks for your encouraging words. All I have far as metal working equipment is a small metal lath. Every thing else I have is for woodworking. Far as glass I picked up some lexan. At a glass shop. May not be pushing much dirt for a while we got 17 inch of snow last week and calling for more this weekend.

17" of snow...so you're saying you just got a little bit snow??!! Yikes!! With that much snow you may wish the dozer was 1/4 scale..LOL

How wide is the blade on your dozer?? And how big is your driveway....

Looking forward to seeing more pics as you build !!!

[Fired up]

Blade is 13''. And drive way to big lol. But would stop me from trying if I had the hydraulics working

[Fired up]

Still waiting Hydr parts. Hope to see them soon. I did receive a sound modular for it to day and some wheels for my low boy. Not sure about starting the paint until l get the hydraulics in and working just in case something needs tweaked. Hard to find time in shop lately with all this snow. I have at lest 3 feet of snow here.

[Fired up]

Well as I am waiting let's start a low boy trailer to haul dozer. Pic of mock up. 3 axels or 2. I think 3. Can anyone tell me how well or not well the stock king hauler pulls. Dozer will be around 50lbs and trailer weight witch could be 15-20 lbs. any suggestions.

[Fired up]

Had a couple hours here's a start for lowboy. Clean it up some later.