Thread: While the toymaking has been quiet Monster Trucks have multiplied in my shed....

nice work

Brilliant.

Peter mate I say Kool.
No make that Totally Kool!.
Oh what the heck let's make that a Totally Way Kool!.

Great Stuff!.

Cheers
Trev.

looking good can't wait to see them finished.

Top Stuff Peter

Looking Good Mate

Regards

Keith

That's some very tough looking vehicles there Crowie. Hope to see some of the wheel making stages.
Great work.

Well done Crowie. I love the way kids light up when they get a monster truck.
superb.

What a great looking build Peter, I will be watching through out. I think that you have made a great use of the logs with the curve already on it good thinking on your part.

Hope they make lots for the club.

Wheel Halves - what a process....STEP #1

I had a 1800mm length plus a whole stack of shorts in 135x20mm so made up a jig to hold the board on the drill press table setting it up for the inner's first with a 93mm T/C holesaw...
Next was the outer's with the extra step of drilling a 1.5" forstner hole in the centre of the blank before using the holesaw to cut out the disc....
The red timber which I though was either Grey gum or Spotted Gum is so hard the forstner bit is now almost blunt and it took for ever to cut the disc's.....
Cleaned them up on the bobbin sander and headed for a rest though it took me 4 goes at standing at the drill press to do this lot....

Time is short this week with too many medical appointments BUT maybe time for STEP #2 which is mark up all the wheel disc's ready for the table saw....

Cheers, crowie

All the best this week Peter

Regards

Keith

Looks great! Keep up the good work!

Step #2 - Making out the wheel blanks and setting up the table saw for cutting the lug treads.....15deg's at about 6.5mm wide by 4.5mm deep....

Using a cutting jig for making out is easier than coping 32 templates, gluing them onto the blanks then later removing the template and cleaning out the glue....

Make sure you set 8 inners and 8 outers aside as you need to cut half on the left and the other half on the right....

This is a slow almost laborious task but the cutting is yet to come and one must be fresh to complete that process.....

Cheers, crowie

PS - Forgot to mention one thing, the newer style T/C Holesaw Arbors have a 6.0mm pilot drill bit and my lug cutting jig has 1/4" dowel so I had the extra step of running a 7.0mm drill bit through the centre holes of all the blanks ...lots of fun....

Looks like the fun begins Peter take care with all that cutting. The build is coming along nicely, they will be better once all the wheels are in place.

It maybe be somewhat slow and laborious.
But it looks like your WHEELIE having fun!.

Cheers
Trev.