Caterpillar D6M dozer conversion
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Did the dozer factory get shut down due to Covid?? Patiently waiting for an update.
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No shutdown. I dropped the blade while I was getting ready to wash it and prime it. To make things worse, I rolled the chair over it, reaching for it. I broke off part of the top that I made. Its repaired, and will get primer today. We had a few days of humidity again, but think that is gone now.
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Oh, boy! I have come close to doing that myself! I have a chair on casters and it swivels as well so if I drop something before I move the chair I look around and if I don't see what I dropped I rotate out of the chair and look again before moving it. I've avoided some serious parts damage that way but not before actually doing so!
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Ouch! I'm pretty sure all of us here have done the same thing once or twice.
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Over the weekend, I got the major sub-assemblies painted. Back to work on the chassis now. I have cut a new high sprocket axle out of brass tubing. I filled in the old axle holes on the lower wheels. Once dry, I will drill them out from the other side, with holes just big enough to let the small HobBits screws go through. The paint I used, is the new Cat color, that I had mixed quite a few years ago, from Tower Paint. It really matches the paint on the wheels pretty closely. I didn't paint the wheels.
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I started putting the blade assembly together. Here you can see the pins I am making out of Evergreen round strips. They will eventually be cut flush, and touched up with paint. When the dozer is transported, the blade is fully angled to the right. I will leave it this way, but it will function as the real blade does, including full tilt.
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Amazing work! Cant wait for the next update.
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