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few weeks ago, i posted a thread of a fellow member, shane, that built his own boom booster for his 8800. he sent me a couple pics on my Facebook page and wanted me to share them. and since seeing his, he gave me a few tips and helped me with building one of my own. so soon after i saw his, i drew out the plan to scale, and started ordering materials. mine is slightly different then his as i couldn't find any hollow square tubing the right size, but came across some carbon fiber tubing from an rc plane shop. i also got solid bar that would slide inside it perfectly, to create the bend on the adaptor ends and the tips for the connection points to the old boom. rest of the boom is all aluminum tubing. Im not sure how many hours I've spent on this project but id say atlas 50 so far. i still have yet to add the telex color and the walkway up the length of the boom. but its 98% done. being my first major custom project, i think it came out pretty good. its not perfect by no means but I'm satisfied. it measures 56.5 inches tall by 8 inches wide and 1 5/8 thick. i still need to get the extra mast insert and floating tray to make it "right" to the true cc8800-1, also need to get the brass sheaves as well. i plan on getting those soon. i want the metal pendants too but the way it looks, ill be spending atlas another 700 bucks alone on those! so those will have to wait.. anyways, here you guys go, if you haven't already seen from my Facebook page. i plan to take it outside soon and add the luffer to it. waiting on a warm dry day, ground is covered in snow much like the rest of the country right now...                   lifting 7.8lb ratchet set     max main boom configuration according to terex      anyone with this model, knows how heavy that wagon fully loaded is, and know how hard it is to make that bad boy float! she's lifting about 55-60 tons at 8ft radius   
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Ain't scratch building fun?!!!!! Very nice Brandon. Nice set of plans and beautiful execution!!! This is a piece that you can be proud of. TM
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Crazy work Brandon! looks fantastic!! I would love to tackle one at some point too,thanks for sharing the pics and making vids too!
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Im not a crane collector but THAT Is Impressive!! Fantastic work! Be sure to post pics when it's completely done!
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I have been following this on FB and it is quite impressive. As if the CC 8800 was not big enough. A lot of work and it looks very straight and true. Got to like that white stuff coming down outside right now. 
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Been following your project here and on facebook. While I can see it a huge piece, it did not sink in until the photo with the scale workman. Nice job.
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Wow Brandon, amazing work and amazing photos!. 
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Great build nice work .What glue you using or are you soldering the joints
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Great work Brandon,would you be interested in posting up plans for other people to build it.
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Awesome!
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That's a mighty fine boom booster you got there Brandon. Great work!
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Thanks guys, I am very happy with the way it came out. Would much rather have it come apart though like the real one, so I could do an assembly video but oh well. Being one solid piece, it's much more stronger. I used JB weld epoxy to attach each piece, then sanded each joint the best I could. Like I said she's not perfect but I'm satisfied.
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Well done there Brandon. You do put alot of faith in those plastic Pennant Lines dont you. Looks good with all that Main boom in it as well.
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that is what we call a BOOSTER ! great job looks very sharp.
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Silver Fern wrote:You do put alot of faith in those plastic Pennant Lines dont you That's what I'm thinking too - especially with that kind of outreach! I recommend the brass pendants from YCC. They are expensive, but then you do get something 
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Yeah I plan on getting them at some point, it would just be 1 kit at a time, like buy the crane kit now, wait few months, buy luffing kit, wait few months, buy the rest, I will need about 10 extension kits now, 4 for the extensions I already have and the rest for the booster. It's very expensive for all that!
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Very nice. Impressive. Might be obvious but is the glue used working well esp. With aluminum? I haven't used that glue before esp. for models.
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Yes it works great, strong as steel once dry! Just makes a mess when wet and mixed. Alot of sanding was done.
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cranedude07 wrote:I will need about 10 extension kits now You can make that a lot less My crane has one boom extension, and I got it fully rigged with luffer now, see the pic. I bought the crane and luffer pendants sets, and one boom extension pendants set. As it appeared, the crane and luffer sets contain more than enough pendant bars. I put in more bars than originally with the Conrad pendants, to lessen the angle between the luffers - and I still have 8 bars left, which equals one boom extension set! So that makes at least one boom extension set less if you rig the crane with the luffer. And a lot less if you rig the crane without the luffer, with a straight boom! Counting the bars in your pics here with the boom booster, you need 36 - for that, you need no more than I got, since I built in 34 plus 2 half ones and have 8 bars left (not counting derrick, superlift and all special pendants in both your and my crane) 
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