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Re: New Fire Apparatus Pics, 6 wides
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lugnet.build, lugnet.town
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Fri, 17 May 2002 15:06:11 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Jonathan Lopes writes:
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> I am also intrigued by the stablizers on the tower truck. I have tried this
> method too and I like it, but I have trouble making the stablizers on the
> *other* side of the truck protrude at the same point. When both sides are
> retracted, they hit each other inside the truck body.
> How did you accomplish this? Do the stablizers on the other side of the
> truck protrude at the exact same point?
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> Thanks
> Jonathan
Well, that very thing is what has taken that tower 6 years to be perfected.
I have tried many different methods for stablizers, using lego type methods.
Then it dawned on me to simply try the real thing. The station I work at in
real life has a 100' rear-mount platform. The outriggers, which are a
"out-down" type, are offset on the truck. The 1x1 bricks take care of that.
If you look at the pic closely, you see when they are extended, there is a
1x1 area empty just in front of the horizontal beam. This is where the
other outrigger sits. Only bad thing is that once out, they can swing
fowards and backwards, so care has to be used in placment. Other than that,
they hold the weight of that ladder and basket with no problem, even at 0
degrees elevation. It takes a little inguneity, and playing around with the
frame of the truck for a secure hold, but once I finished it, I was rather
happy with it.
This will be the future design of all towers that I do.
I guess one of these days L-Draw instructions to everyone would be nice.
Everyone in the fire community has only been asking for them for how many
years now??......and I have been saying I have been working on them (I
really have) for how many years too?
Seeing as how the fire apparatus/station building end of things is starting
to pick up again, guess its time for me to really get of my tail and keep up
with the Joneses.
Wait a minute, I am the Joneses! (shameless tooting of horn, here :o)
Rodney Gentry
Woodchuck County Fire and Rescue
http://members.aol.com/whstlpig05/Woodchuckmain.html
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=Whistlepig
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| (...) 50s/60s style Seagrave Rescue Pumper. (...) Very nice stuff. A lot of it too! I am also intrigued by the stablizers on the tower truck. I have tried this method too and I like it, but I have trouble making the stablizers on the *other* side (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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