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Hell's teeth that is simple, I can do all of that but need to use different "tools" to do each step, same end result just an awful lot longer. Regards Joe. I though I posted this earlier Sean, But must have forgotten to Post topic, to familiar these day's with just hitting "Return".

Did mean to ask some time ago, but that would have led to a very lengthy exchange, I sketch up individual parts then either glue them together or "weld" (merge) them in my slicer. Regards Joe.

That looks real good, not to sure I could do it like that on Cura and Designspark Mechanical. Regards Joe.

Is the main body hollow inside Sean, ?? Regards Joe.

Of course the huge flaw in that wee plan is Scotland got hauled out of the E U, Even although we voted to stay in, Regards Joe.

Apparently New Holland had a new combine on test somewhere in Yorkshire this harvest but no further details, found this what looks like a slightly newer photo as the rear end is different, and marked as a CR 11-90. Regards Joe.

There might be an easier solution by useing an adaptor, I know these make the implement stick to far out the back, but it would be damage free, Regards Joe

Why are Britains saying 4220 when that is a picture of an 8330,'specially as they have already produced both, Regards Joe

Price and delivery hasn't been finalised yet,need to just hang on a bit yet. Regards Joe.

Theres a lovely model of an Agrifac Condor 4 comeing from folk called Agrimodels nl, Available from Zwolle. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064563023684 Regards Joe.

No idea if this is by UH as no mention on Vaderstad's web site but they did the Rapid A 800c so who knows. Just noticed one of the Irish guy's on Facebook already has one, Made by USK. https://collection.vaderstad.com/en-lt/article/scale_model_spirit_800c Regards, Joe

Yes Tyres and hubs are really easy, On Designspark Mechanical you just create template of a cross section of the wheel and tyre, create a fulcrum to rotate around select the "pull " tool and spin through 360 degrees as shown here in Russian so no commentary and how he does the tread is a mystery to me,PS as for the track pads complexity and lack of material on the bottom I had to use a raft. Regards Joe.

Yes the track pads are all seperate links fortunately I have a spare 1/50th scale track pad I had from a dozer kit I build years ago and worked from that, as for wheels they are incredibly easy to do as are tyres all you dois create a flat template with the exact profile like a dished Massey rear create a fulcrum and pull it through 360, I did do a few screen grabs for you but shut the programme down without saveing them, Rummage / Google how to rotate sketch's through 360 and that should sort you out, When doing that wheel / tyre to show you I though might as well try and put some tread on it, Wheels tyres easy tread onto tyre nightmare very tricky, But I had a go and whilst it's far from good and I'm chuffed as all the solutions came from me, Regards Joe

Right got the photo problem sorted and worked out the spaceing / length the track pads need to be in order to get the holes in the chain links to line up so I could get them all pinned together, ended up useing 30 of them to go around the track frame, a wee bit light sanding and some grey paint on the inside and a splash of silver should smarten them up a bit, I also discovered how to properly produce accurate wheels which opened up a whole new area for me in 3D CADing, So I tried my hand at making discs proper concave ones turned out really well, All printed in Carbon filament on PLA settings 200c nozzle 60c heated bed. Regards Joe.

200 and bed at 60 that's in Cura on the Ender 3 pro, just printed 12 crawler track pads came out fantastic, I've lost my Paintshop pro, so might have problems loading photo's I'll look into that tomorrow, ?? Regards Joe.

Must have been a Friday afternoon machine, I've fairly recently started useing Carbon fibre filament it is fantastic stuff slightly stronger than normal filament and it is always very smooth finish and matt finish really nice stuff and similar price to standard PLA and prints at same settings as generic PLA. I'm currently useing it to make track pads for the Schuco Stalinets crawler I bought a few years ago. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175403741446?hash=item28d6e0b106:g:0CcAAOSwL7FioElB&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAsI%2B4VfS%2FmgX3jK0ypwWE4PsUMGgzgUrRoebgvbjpnz7Q369kMT7tMBwh2JToPfXCDv%2F1i6f59Xufo4k0h7FZbpJpo9JNYgf6ajYNRavqx2Kc5%2BUeJZT3vBE%2B%2FAOv8890ujflWQqytvHsOWGvHD%2BLWqoZ60Af3u26JXK%2FGHqqxGddKxh%2B%2BlHujguzxnWB%2Bv4T9z07yKfZZ4CulsBjHWGyMLTI8u8JRRdyOfQoey2J3YKK|tkp%3ABk9SR8rr9OLqYA Regards Joe.

I reckon they've sent you an upgraded board as well, seeing as it is now running quieter, Loads of guy's out there buy brand new machines and swap out the motherboard so as they run quiet, ?? Regards Joe.

That is looking good, who'd 'ave thunk it was the the electronic gubbins that was at fault, happy printing Sean. Regards Joe.

Looking good that Paul, Regards Joe.

The ultimate test Sean, try a print without useing a raft as you really should not need one unless the bottom of your print is not flat, you can easily get "silent" fan motors as well, just checkout E-bay for silent 3D fans plenty of them around and fairly cheap just make sure you get the correct voltage. Regards Joe.

There you go Mike, not sure of the year mind, Brian's car Regards Joe.

Never realised you were useing stainless it was the rubber caught my eye, I've tried various types of black paint, and black Plasti Dip is the only thing I have found the actually looks like real rubber when applied. Regards Joe.

Don't know if this might interest you Paul but there is a nice range of aerosol spray paint that is actually Latex rubber great on model tyres but I think that would finish off your light pod's nicely,. https://www.plastidip.co.uk/product/aerosol-spray Regards Joe.

Theres a video of it as well, But the first 30 minutes is just count down, ??????, Whiz it up to 30 minutes to get the start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nO3LPw_Ecg Regards Joe.

Oh heck, out of the frying pan into the fire, I hope you get it sorted soon, Ide be lost without my machine these day's Regards Joe.