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| | | (...) Excellent work, Beat. Yet again, you've impressed us with another great model. Your boom construction is quite unique. Thanks for the close-up pictures, I'm able to see how you built it now. (URL) your beams upside down and using 1x plates for (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Crawler Crane MOC —Beat Felber
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| | | | | (...) The plates are the main member. You're right, it is a really strong construction. There are several crossmembers between the two parts of the track frame. One of them is the motor itself, and the other ones are also the housing of the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | | | | | | Re: Crawler Crane MOC —Thomas Avery
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| | | | | | (...) This is a good subject for a building discussion. I really like using plates now and have several successful applications. I did it on the body of my crawler crane: (URL) then built several "sample" bridges to display this concept: (URL)I made (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Crawler Crane MOC —Dennis Bosman
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| | | | | | | Hi Beat and Thomas, (...) other. Everyone has it's own way of building. We can solve problems together. Looks good those plates on the sides. If you have lack of bricks, it's a good solution. Although I prefer bricks, but you ran out very fast. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Crawler Crane MOC —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | | (...) rows of 2x plates sandwiching bricks at the joints. Unfortunately the scale is too small to allow decent box girders or trusses along the decks themselves 8?( (...) Yep, I feel the urge growing again... ROSCO (23 years ago, 21-Nov-01, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Crawler Crane MOC —Beat Felber
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| | | | | | (...) Yes, I used a Technic turntable, mounted upside down. This way the gear of the turntable is fixed to the chassis and therefore the motors for the revolution can be placed in the upper structure - like in real. I didn't use a threaded axle. It (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-01, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Crawler Crane MOC —Dennis Bosman
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| | | | | | Do you have enough room for a drive for the revolution in the superstructure? Because you don't need the room in the undercarriage, I should say that I put drive into that section. It's not like the real crane, but I mostimes need the space in the (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-01, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Crawler Crane MOC —Beat Felber
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| | | | | | (...) Currently I have enough space in the upperstructure. But this will change with the second edition. I studied the blueprints and realized that I have to move the five winches closer to the turntable, which means that there won't be enough space (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-01, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | | | | Re: Crawler Crane MOC —Dennis Bosman
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| | | | Well Thomas, when do you start building a new crane?!?! It's true the boom is much lighter with Beat's construction. But I think it isn't as stiff as when you use technic beams as diagonals. It could have a torsion, but Beat's boom isn't very wide (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.modelteam)
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