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One for the New Holland guy's a New Holland T7.270 AC Golden Jubilee. https://toys-farm.com/en/collector-farmmodels-1-32-by-brand/toys-farm-farmmodels-with-a-twist-1-32/ros-new-holland-t7-270-ac-golden-jubilee-edition-999-pcs-1-32/a-53552-10000140 Regards Joe.

That link doesn't work Gavin, Here is a short clip from Youtube, Regards Joe.

Spot on that man, https://www.farmmodeldatabase.com/en/view-details/011717/ertl-1-16-case-ih-mx-110.html Regards Joe..

Interesting you should mention take lots of pictures James, As I have recently discovered this scanning tutorial useing just your phone / camera and a PC, How you would obtain loads of images of the bottom of your object beats me though, But it does look better than any affordable 3D scanner I have seen so far,?? Regards Joe.

Hot wire saves a helluva work, No static polystyrene saw dust absolutely everywhere, I'm sure the one I have was nowhere near the price of that one. Regards Joe.

Good luck on the project James, I used to use a hot wire cutter to shape styrene on my diorama's , The cordless ones are quite handy not haveing a cable lyeing all over the place, Regards Joe.

Cheers James, tracks were freebies on Thingiverse, when it comes to things like CAD my short term memory is useless, But I'll just keep plodding away, It also seems to work better when you pay attention and actually read what comes up on screen when you hover over an item, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2614829 Regards Joe.

I've just had a play around with that RS designsparks software, And first time out got really lucky second and third tries were rubbish, But I drew this up just following the instructions " Create your first solid" as I was making this I thought that looks very close to being a big bale, So exported it and printed it, This RS software might be useful to you Sean as there is a seperate Electrical section, I think James might also like some section of this, I've included a link to a video not made by RS but by a guy who regularly uses CAD and he was impressed by it capabilities, Watching him makes it obvious he knows his way around CAD, Regards Joe, PS the wee guy is for scale purposes.

I would never have believed back in 2014 that haveing cut down the tracks on my Pistenbuuly Snow groomer to make it a Greentec silage machine that seven years later I would be able to, in the comfort of my own house useing an inexpensive 3D printer produce correctly sized / scaled new flexible tracks to put back on it,?? Regards Joe.

Yes Jan, I've looked at others before, But I have never seen the RS Designspark before so posted that link as an alternative to the more familiar CAD software, I have just watched a short RS video, And even although it was Spanish it did look fairly simple, PS, Nice Facebook page. Regards Joe.

I'm led to believe this is an easy CAD system Sean, Not got around to having a go yet myself, But probably plenty of tutorials out there to help with any problems. https://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=designspark/designspark-mechanical Regards Joe.

Interesting to see these images posted on Facebook of an up comeing 1/50th scale P&H 5700 cable shovel the largest of it's kind, there were only five of these huge shovels ever built, One of them was mounted on a barge and sunk just off the coast of Norway and is still there I believe, But interestingly all the steps and hand rails are SLA laser printed, And this model will most likely sell for at least £ 3000.? Regards Joe.

There's a guy from Newmacher used to make them, But don't know if he still does, Regards Joe.

Rick at Modelfarmer should be able to sort you out Callum, https://www.modelfarmer.co.uk/implements/silage-harvesters Regards Joe.

Cheers Stan, 3D printing must be one of the biggest hobbies right now, Which appears to be taken up with folks in their 30's ish, the weird thing about that is none of them seem to have ever built Airfix type kits, as one of the most often asked question's is, I've just printed these two pieces, How to I stick them together,???, 3D printing also has some practical uses, My old battery powered pepper mill packed in recently, so I thought, I wonder, And sure enough there on Thingiverse a lovely Pepper grinder which actually works better than the battery one, I printed it in wood effect and copper filament the printed out a big P to stick on top, The tolerances are so close it's held together with friction,. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2511131 Regards Joe.

There you go Sean, Brand new state of the art Creality Sermoon D1 printer only released in June, And I must say one of the best looking printers I have ever seen, The only draw back I can see is these machines will be very thin on the ground could be difficult getting hint's and tip's on it, Regards Joe. https://www.creality.com/goods-detail/creality-sermoon-d1-3d-printer

I had forgotten all about this guy, He really knows how to set his machine up, Fantastic print's. Regards Joe.

Don't go running away thinking a more expensive printer will give you better print's Sean, A more expensive printer will most likely have dearer "silent" fan's and motors but they ALL have to use the same limited number of slicers and that is what actually dictates how good the print will be, Filament is another element in good quality prints, most are fairly good and as little an adjustment as 5 degrees up or down in temperature can make a difference as can speed and the quality settings you use, My machine has 7 setting's Extra fine to Extra course, The very best filament I have used is Silk Silver, which is almost chrome like and the layer line are hard to see, check the photo and click it up to full size, In case your wondering the two large nuts on the right, One goes up and down the bolt clockwise the other anticlockwise, The smaller nut goes both way's,??? Regards Joe

Cheers James, there is definitely room in this hobby for both Resin and FDM printers, Very interesting to see you mention three years, FDM printers are still basically the same as they were when desktop printers became available, What has changed dramatically is the number of people useing them and sending feedback to the slicer producer, Long story short, I got this printer Christmas 2018 and started useing Cura at the time version 3.6.0, now just over 2.5 years later I'm useing 4.10.0 that's a lot of updates in a very short time, But the extruders used on FDM printers really need updateing as there is not a single printer out there capable of printing flexible TPU straight out the box, the good news there is you can useing your own printer print a brand new extruder part and fit it yourself. Here is the new FREE extruder, The black part on the left https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3844646/files And here is a photo of it after it has been sliced, I'm putting this up mainly for James as it has the amount of filament used and price, That is as fine as my printer goes 0.06mm layer height. Regards Joe.

Any printer on this page would be considered a pretty decent printer these days, If your slicer is set up ok they would all produce really good prints, And the slicer is factory set, You can if you want easily change setting, But that all comes with practice. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=fdm+3d+printer&_sacat=183062&rt=nc&LH_ItemCondition=1000 Regards Joe.

Basically Sean the vast amount of FDM 3D printers are very similar, 4 stepper motors, same as CNC machines and all perform pretty much the same way, What creates the prints a is the slicer it " slices " the object and tells the printer what to print and where to print, My printer is / was made by Creality who produce thousands of good easy to use machines, my printer the Creality Ender 2 is no longer made by them, possibly because it's a 12 volt machine and all new ones are 24v, it is a huge learning curve but any printing issues can normally be resolved by typeing in your problem into Youtube and it's a safe bet someone will have produced a tutorial to show you exactly how it's done. Regards Joe PS as I said ones as good as the other, once you get one upgradeing is easy enough, Here's one like mine.

Hope this is ok James, If not I can get a MOD to create a new thread for 3D printed items, None of these are for sale as when downloading 3D files you agree to abide by all copyright rules and regulations, but anyway 3D printers are cheap and good, I got mine as a Christmas pressie,??? Very handy for makeing things like bales as you can rescale anything, The big bales I have made could very easily be resized as conventional small bales or upscaled to Hesston size, A little PVA glue and a sprinkle of the appropriate coloured flock and you can have hay or straw bales, Needing tatties boxes fairly simple the container and pallet for the IBC is straight forward, the cage though is a wee bit more difficult, The tyre is printed in flexible filament ( TPU ) and as you see squishable, And a diesel bowser is always handy for those long nights at the harvest. Regards Joe.

Well done James I was wondering how best to do this. Regards Joe.

Looks like the Montana is now one of the new Trions Joe. https://www.claas.co.uk/products/combines/trion Regards Joe.

Give it a go Sean, printers are cheap and good these day's,Not knocking resin printers, but I think for a first machine an FDM ( filament) printer would be best for getting the feel for what can be done and you can get brand new ones for under £200 perfectly good machines, Once if you like doing that you could go the resin route, Filament for FDM's is around £16.00 a kilo that is 440 meters I would only need 1.29mtr or 4gramms at €0.08 not sure how much a bottle of resin is or how much use you would get out of it, And if you have a problem there are umpteen tutorials on Youtube, FDM printer https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=3d+printer&_sacat=183062&Model=Ender%203&_dcat=183063&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1 Resin printer https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=3d+resin+printer&_sacat=183062&LH_BIN=1&rt=nc&LH_ItemCondition=1000 Regards Joe.