Barry

Wiking John Deere 7R would be nice to see

24 minutes ago, James Joe Dewar said:

Amazing piece of work Barry, Just love the Neodinium magnet extension, I guess you gave up on the 3D printed idea.

Regards

Joe.

Thank you.

No........3D printer bought and up and running with some other projects on the go.

Will take a while before I can master the art of 3D software to draw the furrows how I want them!!

16 minutes ago, super6 said:

That is lovely Barry, a lot of hard work gone into that for sure. Thanks for showing us the build process, makes it more interesting seeing it take shape. Is it standard plasticard?

Thank you......yes, I like to show the build process, hope it helps others have a go the way seeing builds has helped me.

Yes, all standard plasticard I bought from Antics and ebay.

2 hours ago, smithy said:

Super job there Barry looks really good 

Thanks Smithy

3 hours ago, FendtFarmer said:

Work of art Barry! Nice to see it through the stages 

Thank you Ben

Few more

Then my take on it,

Mercer Machinery are an agri company based in Herefordshire, selling potato and irrigation gear.

They sell a trialed pump that I wanted to make in 1:32 scale!

I had no measurements to go on, so all guess work and scaling from the wheel dimensions.

The real thing

So it can be a 7 furrow or an 8

I inserted a magnet in the end on the main beam so adding the extra furrow was doable!!

It's somewhere near finished now,

Wheel bracket

Extra furrow beam

I glued the furrow to the arm with bicarbonate of soda and super glue, this is an area that I wasn't happy with, but only way of doing it without it being to flimsy 

Stand I made so I could put it all together

Bit of paint added

Dry fit

Attaching the headstock to the main beam with the main lift arm and parallel link arms

Building up the furrow legs, I made a template to glue each stage of the build as uniform as possible.

Mixed results.....so I sent info to a professional company that made the plough blades for me!

The top one is how they arrived, flat.

The middle is after rolling one way.

The bottom is with a second 'roll' a different way.......trying to get that plough furrow curl.

Then, when we all went into lockdown, in March 2020, I had a go at brass etching!!!!

I designed the leg bracket and had these 3D printed (Via someone on Fiverr)

Think this was in 2019 now!

Alignment cylinder

This will be the alignment cylinder,

The headstock

I started doing this back in 2017 😐

Lots of research in finding parts manuals and drawings.

I originally started building it in brass.....but that got too heavy, so plastic became the main building material, along with some brass parts.

Many of the parts were traced around from parts drawings on 2D software and later sent to a company to be laser cut out from different thicknesses of plastic sheets.

The 2D software I used was scaled to 1:32, so when I printed them off on A4 paper, that was the finished size, then sent to be cut from A4 sheets.