NZG CAT 5130 project.

[niner]

PC1100 Grills now stripped of paint, in there and filled. Just need to do a touch more filler.

[Jeremy Rowland]

What have you used to secure the grill?

Jeremy

[niner]

What have you used to secure the grill?

Jeremy

Miliput, lot's of it, you dont want to see the back of it

It was a bit trial and error but it seems to have set rock solid and is in there good and propper!

[Joes1989]

Milliput is a great filler! I use it for the big stuff the squadron green for smoothing to final finish!

[niner]

This is the filled stick and boom, it was originally hollow!

It still needs a bit to do on it before it goes for priming. The filler needs bits adding then sanding down, it's just a long slow process to get it smooth. While part of me thinks sod it, nobody can see it under there I know it's not right.


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[Jeremy Rowland]

Have you considered using a plastic sheet and shaping it thus keeping the weight of filler down; I know it's not a straight forward shape but you could have wedged the plastic sheet in place once you had got the shape right, that was just an idea?

Jeremy

[niner]

Most of the inside of the boom and stick are filled with foam. The filler is only a couple of mm thick, a little thicker in some places.

[niner]

This week I have filed down all the molded on pipework and plastic pipe fittings. Took it right down to the shiny!

I plan on adding 2 more wear plates to the outer edge of the bucket sides and and some hydraulic pipe routing for the bucket opening rams.


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Have added some wear plates to the outer edge sides of the bucket mouth.

Still need sanding down to a better shape but happy with them.


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Been thinning down the PC1100 tracks tonight. I took about 1mm of each side.

I broke the tracks down into 6 lengths and found these m6 100mm bolts that fit in there just nice and tight keeping all the pads aligned.


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That bolt held them all in a nice straight line in the vice and left about 1mm sticking out to be filed down.


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This is one of the filed down sections next to the original track.


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All the filed down sections are staying on the bolts for now to clean them up, I may also need to file a little bit more off and straighten them up a bit.


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All in all it seemed to work ok with no major issues.

[Jeremy Rowland]

Looking good

Jeremy

[niner]

A long way off but she's not looking too bad!


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