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Hi, Yes, I think you're right. This is pretty small. I didn't have a good reference for size at first, as it's yet another poor old thing in the weeds missing half it's bits. But, then when I just looked at it again a little harder, I see the electric starter and that gives me a pretty good size ref...

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Is this the power unit for a pneumatic drill? The one that used the same rails as the old Terratrac I used to have? I can't tell exactly from the photo, but it sure looks familiar.....

Stan

Hi, I wonder if they can get the blade unit as well? That's from another company (also in Italy), but maybe it's not a problem to get one since it appears that happens over there much like there were several attachment companies for the old JD iron..... I'd love to have the C55 with the largest trac...

Hi, Well, popped thru the JD websites for several EU countries, and I only see the wheel tractors listed, and then only for Spain. I don't see the crawler version anywhere. I wonder which country the crawler is sold in and what the model number might be. I wonder, too, where Lavoy was when he saw th...

Hi, Well, not really. I have lots of oddball parts in those crates, but they're all ones that apply to the 420c. Dad didn't save parts for anything he didn't happen to have. I just couldn't resist saying that, though. You *know* as soon as you've finished making up parts for something because you ca...

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Hey! I think I have some parts that look just like that in one of the several apple crates that Dad used to store oddball crawler parts in!

Stan

Hi, Oooh. Now I want one, too. Didn't want one when I thought it was a Struck, but this is a more serious machine. Wonder what they cost? Also wonder if there's a 6-way PAT blade option. I didn't see any blade or loader options on the website, though..... Found one site on the web with some pix of t...

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MawDang.

There was another thread where we were talking about gas issues, and I should have thought to point you in that direction as a possible culprit. Sorry about that, chief!

Stan

Hi, I was going to post a l-o-n-g reply on the steps to correct this and other problems once-and-for-all. I decided not to spend the time, though. It would have started with a 420c and ended with everything upgraded such that you wound up with a JD350C at the end, following the path that Deere took ...

Hi, That'd be a cracked center insulator causing that. Under atmos. pressure, the thing fires from the center to ground electrode just fine. Under the much higher (15 vs 120+ PSI) cylinder pressure, the spark fires out the crack in the insulator to the side of the 'tube' (for lack of a better word t...

Hi, Looks like a modern Struck mini-dozer painted up to look like a Deere. Not that that makes it any less cool, though! I've been thinking about taking an old original Struck (aka the world's most useless dozer) I have kicking around and merging it with an old Deere 110 lawn tractor to make a track...

Hi, If you look closely, you'll see that the Lindemann pads are stamped and have not so much a grouser, but a curl at the extreme end of the pad. The later (and what we'd call normal these days) pads are forged and have a vertical cleat some distance in from the end. The curl on the Lindeman pads wi...

Ray, So, if you're in 3rd gear and going backwards, then you had to be using the reverser, which is OK. The thing is designed to allow the machine to move itself backwards in any gear - although I don't much like using 5th gear in either direction as it seems way too fast for the tracks to me! When ...

Hi , Does it really matter? The paint won't stay onto the pads for long anyway, even for a show machine. So, unless one is sticking the thing inside a museum, I'd opt to leave the entire track ass'y unpainted. Take the rails off, paint the frame and such, and then put the unpainted rails back on. Or...

Hi, Yes, these things started as 3-roller and they just pulled stuff. Then, they added a light blade, then a heavier one, and 3rd parties started making all sorts of stuff (most of what you see popping up in the upper left of the site is 3rd party goodies). So, the thing grew a 4th roller, then even...