Champion 100-T

In 1975 Canadian company Dominion Road Machinery developed a huge grader, the 80-T. At 700 horsepower, it was the world's largest grader, designed for mining applications. Soon thereafter, the company now called Champion Road Machinery updated the model to the 100-T. It featured a 7.3 m (24 ft.) blade.

Over its production span, only ten graders have been manufactured. Champion Road Machinery later became part of Volvo Construction Equipment.

 

My model in 1/28.5 scale features all the functionality of the real machine. The cab houses two SBricks and a battery box, while there is another SBrick in the engine compartment.

The following functions can be remote controlled via bluetooth and the Brick Controller 2 app:

 

- Drive: one Power Functions L motor

- Steering of the front wheels: one CaDa micromotor

- Leaning of the front wheels: one CaDa micromotor

- Articulated steering around a pivot located under the cab: one CaDa micromotor

- Left blade lift cylinder: one CaDa micromotor

- Right blade lift cylinder: one CaDa micromotor

- Rotation of the blade: one CaDa micromotor

- Side shift of the blade: one CaDa micromotor

- Blade pitch: one CaDa micromotor

 

Furthermore the rear powered bogies can oscillate independently and so can the front axle. This ensures always full ground contact of all six wheels.

Done