Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Off Road Multifunction Truck MK3 (ORMFTmk3) - Attachment - Road Roller

I have recently been working on designing and building another attachment for my Off Road Multifunction Truck MK3, this is a road roller.

It has one feature, the roller is raised and lowered via the black gear on the top of it. It connects to a worm gear and 8 tooth gear for the lifting mechanism. This use the same new mounting system as my other front mounted attachments. Due to the weight of it, I have had to add some extra bracing to the front of the chassis to brace this and support the weight better.






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Sunday, August 11, 2024

Off Road Multifunction Truck MK3 (ORMFTmk3) - Attachment - Disc Plough

I have recently been working on designing and building another attachment for my Off Road Multifunction Truck MK3, this is a disc plough

It has one feature, the discs are raised and lowered via the black lever on the top of it. It connects via the rear tow bar.









LEGO Technic 2025 - My Wishes and Ideas

 


Saturday, August 10, 2024

LEGO Technic Off Road Multi Function Truck MK3 (ORMFTmk3) Attachment - Front Dozer Blade V2

 Recently I have spent some time designing and building a new attachment system for the front of my Offroad Multifunction Truck MK3, this allows for different attachments to be used and share the same lifting mechanism and mounting points.

My first attachment for this was a redesign of my front dozer blade. With V2, it attaches via these standard mounting points and can be raised and lowered via the black gear on the top, which connects to a worm gear and drives a 8 tooth gear. This works well and these standard mounting points will be used for all my front mount attachments going forward.






Friday, August 9, 2024

Off Road Multifunction Truck MK3 (ORMFTmk3) - Attachment - Loading Forks

I have recently been working on designing and building another attachment for my Off Road Multifunction Truck MK3, this is a set of loading forks.

It has one feature, the forks are raised and lowered via the black gear on the top of it. It connects to a worm gear and 8 tooth gear for the lifting mechanism. These use the same new mounting system as my other front mounted attachments.







Thursday, August 8, 2024

Off Road Multifunction Truck MK3 (ORMFTmk3) - Attachment - Rubbish Bin Loader

Recently I was able to spend some time working on designing and building a rubbish bin loader attachment for my LEGO Technic Off Road Multifunction Truck MK3 (ORMFTmk3).

Features:
* Lifting Mechanism. Controlled via the green lever on the rear. This also works as a crusher.
* Top cover opens via green lever on the side.
* Rear Tailgate opening.
* Pin from tailgate also used to lock the bin arm in place when emptying the rear area.

Overall I am very happy with this. The functions all work well and it has a good play factor.









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Tuesday, August 6, 2024

LEGO Technic 42165 - C Model - Dragster

I have recently spent some time designing and building a c model based on LEGO Technic set 42165, this is a dragster. This is built using only the parts from set 42165 and does not use any of the spare parts. 

Features:|
* Pull Back Motor Function.
* Steering connected to the control in the cabin.

Overall, this took about 3 hours of rough design work and research and around 5 hours over two days for the building process and to make some improvements. Due to the limit amount of parts, some design compromises had to be made and some areas are not as "finished" as I would like. As a C model, I think it has come out really well.







Spare parts left over from the build.


Sunday, August 4, 2024

Off Road Multifunction Truck MK3 (ORMFTmk3) - Attachment - Cherry Picker

Recently I was able to to spend some time working on improving my cherry picker attachment for my LEGO Technic Off Road Multifunction Truck MK3 (ORMFTmk3). I had previously built this however I found a few issues, specifically with how it attached to the truck. I was also not 100% happy with the previous lifting mechanism, so I have changed this to lift in a more controlled way.

Features:
* Lifting Mechanism. Controlled via the black gear on the rear.
* Turn Table. Controlled via the grey lever on the rear.
* Tool Boxes.
* Access Ladder. This also acts as the top cover for the tool boxes on the left.
* Centre area for bin storage.

Overall I am very happy with these changes and improvements. It now looks much more finished and the functions all work much better.









Saturday, August 3, 2024

Off Road Multifunction Truck MK3 (ORMFTmk3) - Attachment - Reel Mower MK2

Recently I was able to to spend some time working on improving my Reel Mower attachment for my Off Road Multifunction Truck MK3 (ORMFTmk3). 

I had previously built this however I found a few issues, specifically as it had a solid axle, it would not turn well. I was also not 100% happy with the previous lifting mechanism, so I have changed this to now not have a lifting mechanism and it stays in one place. I added a front roller bar and improved the rear cover.







Lego Technic Mobile Phone Stand

Recently I needed to hold my mobile phone in postion for an online meeting. 10 minutes and a few parts later, I had built this.

The colours are bit random as I wanted to use parts that I don't have much of a need for in my normal builds or where I don't have many of that colour, I think this worked out pretty well.