Cat 340D Excavator build

[crueby]

Thanks Rob!


I was taking a look at the travel on the bucket, it is not opening up as far as it should, looks like I need to adjust the positions of the links and cylinder a little bit to get the proper travel. The cylinder needs to move up the stick about 1/2", and the pivot hole for the bucket at the end of the stick is a little too far out the bucket, which messes up the geometry somewhat. That hole can be re-drilled farther in towards the upper lip of the bucket and the old hold trimmed off, so that will be easy. The cylinder moving will just need moving the mount holes for the upper brackets, and shortening the flex shaft to the motor. The joys of scaling up from such a small die-cast model!