Comments on: Hellbender

By: Bacl

Bacl — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:40:26 +0000

I know it may look like a real challenge but the Leviathan with the “siege mode” when the main cannon come out would be sick.

BTW your super tank T 28 was jaw dropping!

By: Sariel

Sariel — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:07:47 +0000

@legokid It locks the rear differential.

By: legokid

legokid — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:46:23 +0000

I dont understand what the pneumatic is for?

By: icanhaslego

icanhaslego — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:12:32 +0000

i like how you made the steering rack wrap around the differential for the front axle. clever solution

By: Boris

Boris — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:09:37 +0000

@Sariel
ohhhhh I see, thank you!
I love UT too, I am going to get the UT3 soon!

By: Sariel

Sariel — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:45:59 +0000

@Boris You can find a scheme of the lock in the Ideas category. It's really simple, it basically locks together both half-axles that come out of the differential. Thus the differential's ability to well, transfer drive at different speeds to those half-axles is disabled, and the differential works like a regular gear.

By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:47:50 +0000

I am speechless, but I really wanted to ask you one thing, is there a separate project on the diff lock, or if there isn’t, can you just roughly explain how does it work?

By: Fernando

Fernando — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:36:01 +0000

@Sariel
Yeah!… now that you mentioned it, remembered to have seen it some time ago in the LDraw POTM page. It won the POTM-BP last October. :-[

http://www.ldraw.org/index.php?module=LdrawMOTM&func=index&categoryid=4&yearwon=none&author=none

By: Sariel

Sariel — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:22:24 +0000

@Fernando He did one. I just got it today.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:20:45 +0000

@Sariel
Wouldn’t get surprised if finding that Philo was about to do one…

By: Sariel

Sariel — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:21:54 +0000

Thanks! I’d love to reproduce the functioning of the lock with the SR 3D Builder, if I lay my hands on a proper model of the new differential.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:13:39 +0000

Another awesome construction Paul!
Congrats.

Would have loved to see a close-up of the diff locking mechanism, working! Not that it isn’t understood how it works, from the previous post where you presented it.