M8A1 Cargo Tractor

[Tankbear]

shovel looks familiar ahem................... old shovel ?

Crew stole it off a nearby Tiger

[Tankbear]

Done a bit more last few weeks.

Built the blade front and fitted, wired up the headlights. Here's some pictures.









Here's a video of the blade working from a servo and spare channel.



Ian.

[PainlessWolf]

Good Afternoon,
Startled me when the lights clicked on, they are bright! Does the blade angle forward and back as well as up and down?
regards,
Painless Wolf

[Wildboar44]

Hey Tankbear nice work ......... Can you show the mechanical set up that moves the blade ? ie the servo / motor
I would realy like to appreciate the enginering aspect .

[Tankbear]

Good Afternoon,
Startled me when the lights clicked on, they are bright! Does the blade angle forward and back as well as up and down?
regards,
Painless Wolf

No the blade only goes up and down. I never thought about making it tilt as well.

Ian

[Tankbear]

Hey Tankbear nice work ......... Can you show the mechanical set up that moves the blade ? ie the servo / motor
I would realy like to appreciate the enginering aspect .

I didn't take any pictures but I can take lid off and take a few shots

Ian

[Tankbear]

Here's some pictures for Wildboar44

Here's the servo simply glued to the inside of front of the hull. By chance it fitted nicely between the gearbox and plastic tube.



The servo is simply plugged into channel 5 on the receiver. (first 4 channels are used by the clark board)



And finally I flick this switch on the controller which is an on/off switch but it's set to slow so it gradually moves servo from fully on to off.



Ian.

[Wildboar44]

Thanks Ian for the pic's .......wonderfull how you can just plug that lot all together ... me I have a Haynes Auto electrical Manual
somewhere..... blue wire goes to the red wire.... black goes to the red... green wire ...?... where's that go then !

great stuff..

Gordo

[Tankbear]

Originally I thought about using HL elevation unit to lift it but got to admit the servo is a lot easy to make work.

Ian

[ruben2005]

hi ian very nice build mate, always the first to do these builds and its awesome mate