Thread: Toy forklift undergoing trials

That looks cool. I would hate to be the lackey that has to wind the wheel to lift the forks :eek:

Originally Posted by djstimber

That looks cool. I would hate to be the lackey that has to wind the wheel to lift the forks :eek:

And who said it did not have a wooden diesel engine?

I sent an invoice for the forklift to Placemaker for $22,000 attaching the photo as proof of delivery. They are still searching for the forklift, and say I need to take legal action as they are not going to pay.

Anyway, I continue getting good service and deals from PlaceMakers, plus free advertising as the enlarged photo is on display there, (on their lost and found board)

Looks pretty good, im sure the boys would have tried lifting all sorts of things with it

Here's 3 more views, idea of size, its about 235-mm long without the forks.

When these photos were taken it was back in the shop for modifications, to lock the crank, it needed pushing from right to left, but the boys found that unnatural, so I reversed it.

The white paper above the forks was put on by the kids, they had it for 3 weeks until I modified it. That was when I did the edited photo. The kids got to keep it after that, 9-months later it is still in working order, and these kids are rough.

an earlier version was a 3-wheeler, but it needed more building time, and was not so good in the end.

Nice job Peter, I courious how you lock the crank?

David

Waldo? You reading this, mate?

Originally Posted by David L

Nice job Peter, I courious how you lock the crank?

David

Hi David, Sorry for the delay.

I attach some pictures to show you.

The crank shaft has about 15-mm axial play, so a pin in the crank disk slides into one of the holes. I use a screw with the head cut off for a pin. This curent batch is for donation to the NZ Cancer Society so I made them addapble for left or right handed drivers.

The 3 testers were all right handed, during testing I noted that when they were cranking they tended to push the right side crank disk towards the left causeing the pin to lock, so I moved the lock pin to the left side.

For left handed kids, the crank handle is on the left, the lock pin on the right.

I made 2 B-trains and a forklift for Catbury's World in Dundein, a factroy exibition centre, while the parents toured the factory, their kids stay in a play area. The customer painted the toys in Catbury's colours.

As I expected very high use by inexperinced forklift drivers, i made the forklift for right handed drivers, and recessed an aluminium disk into the left hand side to reinforce the locking pin holes.

Feel free to ask for more info, while I sell my products, its just a hobby to me, the income is used to buy materils to make more toys to donate to cancer.

Peter.