1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

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Hazmat
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1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

Post by Hazmat » Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:45 pm

Hi everybody,

after another long break some little progress on this one. Allthough the building part of the following step wasn´t that much, the mechanical aspect was quite a task for me :?
After the building of the second telescope boom i started to build the ladder basket. The difficult part was to create the basket moveable in the correct maner :roll:
Despite tons of photographs of the FDNY tiller ladders, finding some useable closeups or detail shots of the basket, was a different story :(
And having the technical drawings of these trucks wasn´t of any help either, since the details of the basket mechanism where not shown :x
So i´ve spend the last few months after my last post (in the old forum) with the good old "error and trial" method :P

Anyway that´s where i´m so far, hope you still like it :D

First the basic work by building the base frame out of ps sheet and rectangular ps tubes.
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Hazmat
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Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

Post by Hazmat » Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:52 pm

followed by the support brackets for the telescope boom, also made out of rectangular ps tubes.

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Hazmat
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Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

Post by Hazmat » Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:55 pm

then the further completition of the basket followed
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Hazmat
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Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

Post by Hazmat » Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:59 pm

Next was adding more details and starting the build the moving mechanism
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Hazmat
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Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

Post by Hazmat » Tue Feb 20, 2018 6:05 pm

And more progress on the mechanism
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Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

Post by Hazmat » Tue Feb 20, 2018 6:14 pm

continuation of the of the moving parts creation.
Sorry that i don´t comment each step with any technical explanation, i simply don´t know the expressions for all the technical parts :oops:
So i just let the pictures speak ;)
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Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

Post by Hazmat » Tue Feb 20, 2018 6:19 pm

Last pictures of the mounting of the basket bottom to the frame (does this sound correct!? :? )
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Hazmat
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Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

Post by Hazmat » Tue Feb 20, 2018 6:24 pm

And the last building steps of the basket so far:
creating the basket doors and hinges for them
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Hazmat
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Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

Post by Hazmat » Tue Feb 20, 2018 6:27 pm

And the final pictures for this update.
The whole basket (so far) assembled and how it moves. So hope you enjoyed this update :lol:
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JoeO
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Re: 1:32 FDNY Seagrave Towerladder in progress

Post by JoeO » Tue Feb 20, 2018 8:41 pm

Wow awesome job thanks for sharing the work thats involved.

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