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Topic: hello

Hi everyone, my name is Don from a small place called Cobb, in northern California. I received my SD4 around the first of February and its been printing almost every day since. i'm a retired heavy equipment operator and I wanted to see if I could make RC heavy equipment in 1/6 scale with a 3D printer. So far so good, I will post some pics later on as I progress. It is a challenge, Im using the Inventor fusion software on a mac so i am designing and printing parts from sketches without really knowing what it will look like when its all put together and done, lots of fun. I am very happy with my printer. I had some problems with one of the motors overheating and shutting down the print but a fan and shroud cured that. I have built similar models using a lathe and mill out of aluminum which took a lot of time, I'm thinking printing them will be much faster.

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Welcome Don smile

Nice to see another person that likes big iron and little big iron, would love to see your work when you get it put together... or even before.


Are you on here also? ---> http://www.rctruckandconstruction.com/

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Thank you, I haven't joined them yet but a lot of the builds on their site are just amazing. I have done the small Bruder dozer RC conversion and used the SD4 printer to make sprockets that engage the tracks properly.  My first print project is a loader, not really based on anything, but more on everything that I operated over the past 30+ years. Coming from a logging family my goal is to make logging equipment like I used to run back in the 70's mixed with what their using now. That should take a while!

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Amazing is the least of it smile I drool over some of the builds on there... just wish I had more time... and money wink

Logging eh'   never guess what I was doing today...
http://i.imgur.com/mHXEupd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/uxVPhWw.jpg

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O yea, nothing like working in the woods. An excavator/heel loader will probably be next years print project. I put some pics of the loader project on the site. I don't know if I posted them right,never done it before, Old dog learning new tricks I guess.