scratch crawler or tower cranes

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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can I do this
I tried to scratch a trolley from brass and that came out poorly
some of these cranes can run over $100

well here is my start


its not much now
I seen this in my minds eye
I just have to try this scrachy thing again

Ken

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well I have been at it for 15 min

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looks good so far. wish i could somethin like that

tom

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thanks tom
I was looking for maby someone had done somthing like this or similar
I think I need bracing
I have some belts from a giant copier that looks just like the tracks
more photos late tonight

K

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Save yourself some grief, pick up one of Sheepscot Scale Models boom kits:

http://tinyurl.com/b25lg

$20.00 will get you an etched brass boom that you can assemble.

Bob Boudreau

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I bookmarked that site, thanks for sharing it Bob!

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wow brass
now were talking
I have a soft spot for the brass detail parts
looks like this scratch built is scrached

K

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I cut some crossmembers

and its slow work but it may make a nice tower
we have a few on I93

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well I did say LATE

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whats that security guard up too
oh no… we have a jumper

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Budliner,

If I’m not mistaken, the above diagram drawing is the Krull 10000, the worlds largest tower crane. I’ve seen it on TLC Monster machines, friggin huge crane. Kibri makes tower crane kits in HO scale. Much easier than trying to scratch build one.

That’s quite an undertaking to scratch build one. Are you building a tower or crawler crane ? Kibri makes both types , I think kibri web address is http//:www.kibri.com or I have a link to peach creek shops. John at peach creek has many kibri kits listed at a reduced price and tons of scratch building supplies. Below is the link to peach creek shops, he has about six pages of kibri vehicles.

http://www.peachcreekshops.com/spcls.php?val=Kibri+Specials&UID=2006062020542671.85.1.168

Patrick
Beaufort,SC
Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}

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hello dragon
I dont know it can go any witch way

what do you think
hey the guard is up there now

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The main span is rather large for a crawler crane, unless you were to make a Demag12000CC crawler crane. The demag 12000CC is the worlds largest crawler crane, I’ll have to find a pic of this monster.

Your build reminds me of tower crane…I say go with tower crane. But its your build, with that boom, it would be one heck of a crawler crane,should you chose to build it.

Patrick
Beaufort,SC
DRSC

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thats it now we are going to make it a tower crane

I like it

needs paint

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Slight typo…its a Demag 12600CC is the worlds largest.

Below is a link to three pictures of it.

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Ddemag%2520CC12600%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3DFP-tab-web-t%26x%3Dwrt%26fr2%3Dtab-web&w=800&h=582&imgurl=cranes.piranho.com%2Fpics%2Fkranen%2Fmammoet%2Fcc12600%2Fcc12600-3.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcranes.piranho.com%2Fcc12600mm.html&size=86.8kB&name=cc12600-3.jpg&p=demag+CC12600&type=jpeg&no=8&tt=20&ei=UTF-8

Never could figure out that tiny URL link…sorry

Patrick
DRSC

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this thing is SICK

they love them they realy love them

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I love South Carolina
I was at the omni hotel for a week
won a trip to myrtle

thanks fot that link I never seen a crane that big

Ken

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I have over an hour in

thanks to all for the post’s
I now see power to this thing
I need yaw
pitch
making the boom

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