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Subject: 
That's annoying was Large Crawler/Track-Layer And New Shovel Project
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Date: 
Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:25:45 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Benjamin Ventura wrote:
  

Hello!

All you crane and excavator builders out there should like this one - At the link below are pictures of a huge crawler I’ve been working on:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=154193

Your track design is extremely similar to one I’ve been working on

Yours

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1488510

mine

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1489959

back view

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1489960

I wasn’t going to publish mine till I’d finished the moc, but theirs no point waiting now.

As you can see we’ve both used basically the same parts to accomplish the same thing, only yours is wider.

On the back of my track I’ve added jumper plates, which will act as little grousers to bite onto things, otherwise I fear the slick track will just spin. You probably won’t have that problem as your moc will no doubt be a lot heavier. And a slick track will be easier to turn.

You can’t see it very well In my pics but my track also has a piece in the middle which sticks up. This will form a guide keeping the track in place as it goes between the pairs of wheels. These guides will also hopefully engage with the drive sprocket.

I have another design of track which is completely different. On my other type, protrusions from a large drive sprocket fit into gaps in and between the track plates, providing drive that way.

Steve



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