HELP!! I started to build the crane last night and ran into an issue. I got to step 151 in the book and tried to put the 13 hole beam into place where the cable for the motor comes out and cannot get it to connect. SO I checked the sides that hold the tracks and everything seems alright there but it seems the little round grey tube is in the way so I took the whole turntable assembly off and rebuilt the first turn table apart and rebuilt it to see if something was wrong there. I put it back on with the black quarter rounds facing front and back as the illustration shows and it (the grey tube) is still in the way. I looked at the beams tht hold the "wings" and they looked like they are angled out and the only way to straighten them is to angle them down but that does not solve the problem. I am at a standstill with the build until this can be figured out. Anyone build one of these and had similar issues? Thanks for any help

Pics could help.

Hard to do as I am having trouble getting into Instagram

1 hour ago, JohnsLegos said:

Hard to do as I am having trouble getting into Instagram

Upload your photos to an image hosting site like 'Flickr' and post the link to each photo (at max 1024x1024 size) here.

Hard to play "who is it" with so many pieces.

Here is step 151:

 

And step 152:

Ok, I made a video of the issue, I hope this helps. 

 

I think your track assemblies are placed one stud too high.

EDIT, 2 studs too high*

Edited November 12, 20231 yr by Zerobricks

25 minutes ago, Zerobricks said:

I think your track assemblies are placed one stud too high.

EDIT, 2 studs too high*

Agree. At least one stud too high, probably two.

Ok, I went and took the track assembly off that you put on first and tried to move it down a little but if you go back to step 91, there are 2 black pieces that are somewhat in the way and won't allow the track assembly to go back into the blue pins. 

Your tracks are placed too high. Look at page 96, found it at 7:55 in this video:

The top beam of the yellow 3x19 yellow frame on the track segment should be aligned to the bottom beam of the yellow 3x19 frame of the central turntable structure. 

Thanks for the help everybody, I was able to get it all figured out and back to building! Thanks again!

Just when I thought I was done asking questions...... well I got the track assembly built and wanted to do the testing phase I opened the Control + app and went to step 2 and as it went into the turntable test is screen just sat there doing nothing so I grabbed my phone (I tried a tablet first) and was able to get into the turntable test. Then I forgot to turn it 180 degrees and it is stuck and I cannot get it back to where I can move the turntable. I tried to put it in "drive mode" to see if that helps but without the other motors and whatnot hooked up it did no good. I even uninstalled the app and reinstalled but that didn't help either and it still gets stuck on the "this makes the turntable move, give it a try " screen. Anyone?

Do the calibration step again?

If re-running the calibration step doesn't work, try manually resetting the turntable to the proper position by disassembling, then run the setup calibration again.

All you have to do is follow the instructions. Double-check everything as you go.