Driven Front Axles

[rwaldram]

I've had enquirys by more than one member about the KFS resin axles that i used for the crane project and in particular how they're made so i've taken the liberty of taking a few pics for you, hopefully they'll help.










You may notice that i have put two pieces of evergreen tube over the original wheel stud, the originals were way too thin for the diameter of the hole in the wheels i'm using and i was also concerned about their ability to hold such a large resin wheel as the ones i'm using.

Also please note that the Revell Simba used a very simplified version of these axles (and lacked almost all detail) but they would be very easy to scratchbuild, i'll take some more pics of these over the next few days and post them however for the time being it'll just be the axles as the steering mechanisim's and rotating hubs were an a very poor condition when i bouthg this partially assembled kit, i sent two away for re-casting but have never seen them since.

Here are two for now though

[okdoky]

Hi there

Thanks for posting them on here. Great help. I needed detailing on the double steer connection to the non-drive axle of the DROPS and these pics show that principle clearly too.

Great build and Many thanks for showing.

Nige

[rwaldram]

i have posted a couple of pics of the KFS twin steer conversion kit in my Crane thread, these pics may also help you to work out connections/steering linkages etc.

[rwaldram]

i'm still getting to the simba but basically, if you look at the axles on it the hubs were basically just peices of 'half tube' to cover the outer section of the axle ends, these then had small stubs sticking out of them and the two on the left had steering arms for the linkages.

As for the KFS ones, here are two hubs that i have literally just pulled out of the mould, you'll notice that i've been lazy and had the brake actuators glued onto the originals prior to casting