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Re: Heavy Duty Articulated Pulling Truck
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.build
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Date:
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Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:08:45 GMT
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8459 Front End Loader has the articulation that required. It uses a similarly
designed one for its secondary model, too.
regards,
Selçuk
Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> "Fredrik Glöckner" wrote:
> >
> > Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> writes:
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> > <hook clarification>
>
> > So if the hook is at the correct height, you can just back the truck up
> > in the correct direction, and then flip the crossblock to slide the
> > halfbeams back up, thus locking the trailer in place. The mechanism is
> > much like that of 8872
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> > http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=8872
>
> Thanks. I see now. And BTW, what a cool set! I'd never seen that one
> before.
>
> > > Have you tried giving it an earthmover (Articulated truck or scraper)
> > > back end?
> >
> > That would mean putting a scraper in front of the rear wheels, right?
> > That would be possible, but would probably mean that the chassis need
> > some reorganizing, since the two 10-axles that hold the chassis together
> > are in the way of the scraper.
> >
> > > I went to the Cat site to find one but came up short. However there are
> > > some other interesting construction pics there...
> > >
> > > http://www.cat.com/cgi-bin/frameset.pl?nav=products&content=/products/equipment/equipment.html&target=_top&title=Caterpillar%20-%20Products%20-%20Equipment
> >
> > That's cool! I would like to make one of those really large dump trucks
> > in a minifig scale, but I don't quite know how to make the steering
> > work. A rack and pinion version would require too much space, I think.
>
> Not really. Remember that in the largest truck they do, the cab floor is
> 20-30 feet off the ground. You could use Big Foot wheels with a full
> blown articulated suspension with rack and pinion steering and a
> differential and still have room to mount an engine model in all that
> space (the truck would no doubt be a good 20 studs wide, and the cab
> floor would be 8-12 bricks off the ground.)
>
> > Besides, how would the dump be constructed? Any ideas?
>
> Either something done with hinge bricks, or lots and lots of plates
> sandwiched around a technic axle and beam skeleton. Again, the dump body
> holds 3-400 TONS of material so it's HUGE. It's amazing to think that
> they move around with no more engine power than an over the road truck
> (3-400 horsepower, about 2-3 times that of a normal passenger car
> nowadays). It's all in the gearing.
>
> These trucks are so large that they are shipped in pieces and assembled
> on the site. They take up 3 lanes of roadway so never dare venture out
> onto highways.
>
> >
> > Fredrik
>
> --
> Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
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> - Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please.
> - Stick to the facts when posting about others, please.
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