CAT 374D L

[Hemi1966]

Finally got all of the carrier rollers done including the upper ones

[CAT315C]

Hemmi1966,

A beautiful project, congratulations!!

You're doing all of it aluminum?

Thank you,

Carlos

[Hemi1966]

Originally Posted by CAT315C

Hemmi1966,

A beautiful project, congratulations!!

You're doing all of it aluminum?

Thank you,

Carlos

Pretty much yes, of course all axles and pins are steel. Also the upper frame swing bearing mechanism will be made out of steel. There will also be some brass parts in the upper frame.

[Radio Control Trucker]

This is one awesome build, Ari. It's going to be heavy and durable in the end.

Great work. Another beautiful job.

- RCT

[Azonic]

Wow, looks amazing, always a plasure to watch your updates!

[Hofabooz]

Hi

Most excelent work realy look forwards to your updates.
Thanks for sharing and good luck with the build

Regards

Mark

[Hemi1966]

I started to build the undercarriage x-frame It will be possible to narrow the undercarriage for transport like in the real thing, just have to unscrew 48 bolts
I also found a nice picture of 374 beeing transported on a low loader

[Madda]

The pace you are building at is just amazing!

How many hours a day do you spend on that beast?

[Hemi1966]

Originally Posted by Madda

The pace you are building at is just amazing!

How many hours a day do you spend on that beast?

Too many
I'm on my annual leave, so I can spend more time with it

[MitzuRazing]

Awesome work! And the pace is not compareable
Cnc is cool

[plow jockey]

Wow !! Your work is amazing. Excellent work !!

[Hemi1966]

Got the x-frame top piece and the underside corner support pieces done. I also made the boom tip reinforcement plates

[RCP57]

When I look at your update pictures I start dropping F bombs... In a good way of course. There's just not that many polite ways to describe what you're doing!

Nice work Ari!!!!!!!!!!

[carp]

looks really nice, how much does your undercarriage weigh?

[Hemi1966]

Originally Posted by carp

looks really nice, how much does your undercarriage weigh?

Thanks again guys for the compliments

The undercarriage weight is now about 7 kg, that's without the tracks so it probably will be 10 kg when finished.

[Madda]

Great!

How are going to solve the problem what comes when you need to connect drive motors with the ESC? I mean that the swinging is going to twist the wires.


First tesdrive shouldn't be too far heh?

[Hemi1966]

Originally Posted by Madda

Great!

How are going to solve the problem what comes when you need to connect drive motors with the ESC? I mean that the swinging is going to twist the wires.


First tesdrive shouldn't be too far heh?

I'm going to use slip ring like these: http://www.hzqs.com/english/src.html

And what comes to the undercarriage test drive the only thing that's missing are the tracks

[Madda]

Yeah slip ring is one of the easiest and best solutions. Some guys make their own custom solutions so I thought I would ask.

Have you started making the tracks? It is probably one of the most pain job to do.

Are you going to use Sabertooth ESC? If not then I recommend it, best solution for tracked vehicles, I'm very pleased with mine.

[speedy8305]

love the Detail work looks exactly like the real thing look forward to seeing the finishe product

[speedy8305]

hey guys the 374 does not have a sliding under carriage I am a heavy equipment technician and CAT is the majority of the equipment I work on it has a fixed undercarriage but all in all I think the model looks great and the site is great as well you guys are very talented