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Bombardier SV200 restoration

olympicorange

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Much less filler being used than original. On the roof, I used Tiger fiberglass filler, really strong stuff. The scaffold is very handy for high work, much more stable than ladders for welding, grinding and sanding.

…… very nice work on the body mods,.. looking good. going with yellow, or a custom color,... custom cats with custom colors,.... :thumbup:
 

olympicorange

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…….. so what would be the advantage to the rubber blocks (isolators??),. just non-snow conditions...to smooth the ride on ''hard-pack'', etc... doesn't seem like any advantage in snow,....
 

Jphoenix

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…… very nice work on the body mods,.. looking good. going with yellow, or a custom color,... custom cats with custom colors,.... :thumbup:

Custom color scheme - you'll have to wait and see... as will I - since it's not good painting weather here in the PNW swamplands.
 

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Finally a sunny day, so I spent the morning installing the blade frame and actuators. Ran them in and out to bleed the air out, working good, no leaks. Later I got a couple coats of white epoxy primer on before the sun went away.
 

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Plow frame looks fabulous! Would it be too much trouble to get the dimensions of it from you as I have to build the same thing for mine? Thanks and keep up the great work!
 

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For the frame that attaches to the cat axles, probably best to bolt the various pieces to your cats frame and tack it up. Do you have the plow blade and carriage? If not, you’re in for quite a bit of fabrication. You’ll need the actuators as well. Maybe Boggie at MTN Outdoors can provide some parts?
 

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Huge Thank You! I can weldifab a lil bit... but calling MNoutdoors might be smarter...I have him on speed dial! Lol
Here’s a pic of the flatbed I made last week and the reason I haven’t gotten to work on my snowcat...
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Jphoenix

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Nice work! Brad’s the man when it comes to parts these Skidozers, I suspect he may have something around that would work, and not far from you, so shipping thousands of pounds of blade parts can be avoided.
 

Snowy Rivers

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Sweet looking little rig...

It's amazing how far these things can deteriorate over time and with some Hooooman help they get even worse off.

The rodents don't help much either....

Gonna be a great cat pretty soon....

Painting weather here in the PACNW comes about June......


We are south of Portland about 25 miles....swamp weather here too...

I am curious about the winch you put on the trailer.....how well does it work???

I am thinking about a winch for the front of my cat.... Being able to pull is a nice thing....especially if it's your own machine that needs pulling.
 
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I put the winch on the trailer so I could get the cat off when I bought it. Since then the winch has been very handy in pulling tracks on and moving the blade around, so I’m going to leave it on the trailer and add another one to the cat, like mounted to the plow blade frame, or maybe on the back haven’t decided which yet and interested to hear opinions.

If it’s on the back I can pull myself out of trouble, on the front think it’s more convenient in pulling others out of trouble?
 

olympicorange

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.………… by the picture it looks ''stout'' ,.. advertising.... i'm not much of a fan of the place ,... but as long as you don't use their products to make a living,... your knuckles are a little more safe ,....
 

Snowy Rivers

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I like HF....BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

The wrenches, sockets and such are fine...screw drivers...not so much.
I have air tools I bought from them back in the days that they were a mail order house only..

I used these tools on the job for years...oil them and they live..

The Badlands winches are SO SO.

I have seen a few of these up close and personal..

The various off road magazines have tested various winches and it's THE GOOD..THE BAD...THE UGLY

For a little help...the Badlands will do the job...don't plan on serious pulling for a long time with them though.

I will likely bolt one on the front of my Van cat....one reason "Make the Cat look cooool"

Warn winches are pretty good stuff....$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

For the price of the BAD LANDS WINCH If it saves your butt one time and gets you and your family back safe....money well spent.

I would be a little concerned about really using one hard core and then figuring it would be good many many time to do the same.

I had an old WARN on a Ford 4x4 back in the 70's and that winch saved my butt many times.
I restrung the cable on it many times due to the abuse it had been subjected to.

Better than not having a winch....
 
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The old adage “you get what you pay for” is especially true at HF, keeping that in mind I use a Snatch Block on my winch to make up for the cheap components in it!!! Snatch blocks are very handy for getting around trees and technical pulls, and 2x or 4x your pulling capacity!!!
 

olympicorange

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exactly…. buyer be ware... one of the nice features about adding a snatch block , is it slows down the winch . a single line can be too fast sometimes. but when a S/B is added , you can hold it wide open. a little safer, not so jerky. so one S/B added will double your line pulling power, and so on.... it also increases the stress on the winch internals... one thing to keep in mind . so when you take a 10K lb. winch , and try to do 20k worth of pulling ,... stand back...:smile:
 

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This is the first winch I've owned with a kevlar rope. (Spectra maybe?) I'll never go back to wire rope.

I have used Bluesteal synthetic for logging for 15 or twenty years. The 5/8 rope is about the same strength as regular wire rope. 100 feet weighs 10 #, no jaggers, and the best part is it doesn't bind when sucked down in the spool of wire. Easy to pull out by hand as opposed to tying off to a tree and driving off. The down side is it is easily abraded pulling over sharp stuff. I had to add another fairlead roller to the top of the arch. Note that the paint is still on the rollers. Also easy to splice, it is braded like Chinese finger cuffs. See the eye splice next to the bells.
 

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That’s impressive that you can use it logging, that is about the toughest environment there is...I think you just made me a believer!
 

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Rained Saturday so started in on the blade and its carrier. Sanding, grinding wire wheeling, phosphoric acid and three coats of gray POR, today was sunny, so I hung the carrier on the blad frame and put two quarts of polyester build primer on the cab. Next, lots of sanding ?
 

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Got white paint on the cat finally, but not the final scheme as I have some large vinyl stripes I’ll be installing. Got lights, LED strobes and windows installed, need another 25 feet of windshield gasket to finish installing the windshield. Getting closer :smile:
 

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Got one windshield in, and cracked it ☹️, two new ones on order now. Meantime, I finished wiring lights, new pentagrams wipers and put some logo decals on.
 

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WOW,… that looks great, nice job. bummer on glass, i'm about as lucky myself, gunshy to say the least around glass. I tend to have a pro install, unless it's the framed type. really coming along ….. :thumbup:
 

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Blown away at the work your doing! You are inspiring me to do great things with my build! Not to aggravate the situation but Who or what are you using for glass and seals?
 

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Glass coming from a local glass shop, it’s laminated so he’s ordered it 8n and making new pieces because the old ones were marginal. It appears the original glass was cut with an axe. Likely contributed to the crack, as well as delamination on the edges. Two new windshields, cut to size $219.

Seal from Amazon, 25’ long does both windshields easily. 25 more feet does all the rest of the windows. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NL48P54/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The old rope trick works perfectly on this seal. Renee helps with the prep and installation, it’s a two person job.
 

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Really nice work Jim. Many years ago I assembled heavy equipment for a company in Enumclaw. We used a two piece seal for flat windows. The second piece was a "key". The seal and key were made of the same rubber material. The seal was pretty easy to install in the cutout with the glass, then we installed the key with a special tool. I think I still have the tool. The tool was a handle with a loop on the end. The loop was the same shape as the cross section of the key. We inserted the end of the key in the loop, pressed it into the slot in the seal and pulled the tool along inside the slot, forcing the seal into the slot, expanding the seal for a tight fit. Through experience we found we had to be careful not to stretch the key too much or it would retract over time and leave a gap where the two ends met. It was easy to force more key into the slot and not end up with a gap later.
This looks similar: https://www.amazon.com/Window-locking-windshield-windows-equipment/dp/B01N7HKOY4
 

Snowy Rivers

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That tool is a real plus.

I did a bus conversion back in the 80's and the 6 piece front windshield used that same style of seal....

Spray the rubber down well with Windex to make everything slip into place well

Piccy of the coach and the tool
Actually I have several of those tools of varying configurations and offsets to get around corners and there is one that has round wires instead of the flat metal piece.

Any and all are a nice addition to the tool box if you need to deal with these type of windows.

Doing that 6 panel windshield was a bit tedious to say the least.

It had a stainless band that cinched the entire thing up just above the two lower panels....

We were all relieved when that bad boy was in and secured....
 

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Windshields! New glass went in easy as pie. Next up new wipers, motors, pentagraph arms, washers. High vis stripes going on, getting closer.
 

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