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In lugnet.technic, Thomas Avery writes:
> I was just surfin' through Brickshelf and came across Chris Davis' Demag
> CC12600 model:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=38697
> (CAD rederings of CC12600)
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=38698
> (Actual construction- turntable and part of crawler base)
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> Anyone else seen this? Looks like a monster!
I saw it yesterday, it looks promising.
> My only advice would be to change the boom construction, or provide more
> bracing. It will not be strong in the lateral direction, and will flop over
> sideways during a heavy lift. Something like this is good:
> http://www.texbrick.com/creations/msg50/truss.jpg
He's also doubled up on the diagonal bracing unnecessarily. His diagonal
bracing's overlap forming a cross while on prototype cranes there's just one
bracing forming a triangle.
Steve
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| (...) the lateral bracing is really important, do as much as you can to brace it, it is one of the few problems with my boom, the mast will shift causing the boom to lean, then it falls, and youll probobly have to fix more than just the boom. and (...) (22 years ago, 31-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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| I was just surfin' through Brickshelf and came across Chris Davis' Demag CC12600 model: (URL) rederings of CC12600) (URL) construction- turntable and part of crawler base) Anyone else seen this? Looks like a monster! My only advice would be to (...) (22 years ago, 31-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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