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Did the dozer factory get shut down due to Covid?? Patiently waiting for an update.

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.

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!

Ouch! I'm pretty sure all of us here have done the same thing once or twice.

Troy wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 03, 2021 7:25 pm

Ouch! I'm pretty sure all of us here have done the same thing once or twice.

Yep

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.

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.

Amazing work! Cant wait for the next update.