 All right. I gotta take a break from digging and I'm gonna do something. I've been meaning to do for a while Okay, I've got this this boat right in front of me this boat here. Let's just take a good look at it That was a good-looking boat. Oh Yeah, that is a good-looking boat man. Look at that thing I've been driving this boat a lot. So right now I drive this boat a lot and also This this little guy here, I'm going somewhere just by myself. I'm not getting much cargo or anything I'll take the little fast boat But I'm often with a pile of kids or picking up some junk or whatever. So I've been driving this boat a lot and I did a time trial in this boat a little while ago and Okay, this is this is the boat I was driving before it's just chilling right now in that boat I made it to where I pick up packages in three hours and 20 minutes and then and I was hoping to Match that time in this boat and then I could get there and back in the same amount of time With like five times the amount of cargo weight space whatever not space, but maybe even five times. Anyway, I can hold a lot more cargo in this boat But when I went it took three hours and 40 minutes in this boat So 320 and then 340 now since then I've Carved off some of the barnacles on the bottom of the boat Because you know every time I take the boat out and I go for a swim. I'll grab my little scraper here Pick a little section on the bottom of the boat Just move it out a bit. So I'm pretty sure I've increased the speed on this boat some But there is another thing that I want to do Okay, let's go back to where the motor is back here, you know, we can see it well enough from here. No, let's go back. Okay So this is this is Just ignore my super fancy motor cover just a bucket so This bottom part is from like a 15 or a 20 horsepower gas motor and then I made this and Put an electric motor on top of it. So This actually came from a broken motor, so it was already pretty used and I Think it's starting to leak oil a little bit and it's starting to make funny sounds, you know, it's still working, but I Don't know. It's also I'm pretty sure Not optimized Because this is just a motor that I got and push just put it on this thing I didn't I didn't do any kind of scientific calculations for Rpms versus power or whatever. It's just it's just the motor I put so I'm sure it's not, you know Optimized for this propeller size and blah blah blah whatever There is another motor Let's just go back over here a bit This motor That's on on the other boat. This is the boat. I was driving a lot for a while um This motor here I'm pretty sure Outperforms the one that I currently have on this boat And I think that for a couple reasons. I mean one I just kind of get that feeling but also This thing is all, you know engineered at some place. I'm sure they put The appropriately sized motor with the right rpms and whatever for this propeller and whatever whatever Anyway, I'm pretty sure this this Motor outperforms the one I have on the boat currently and since I'm not using this boat I want to steal that and put it on here However, it doesn't currently fit Because this motor has, you know, the standard clamp onto the transom of a And yet back here, I've got this fancy thing that makes it easy to raise and lower the motor so uh Right here. There's the there's this Fiberglass pipe thing that I made right and this thing can slide up and down and it's got some pulleys and ropes So it's easy to pull the whole thing up and out of the water So I have to decide if I want to try to make that other motor fit into this somehow or if I want to like I don't know maybe Maybe you can just clamp right on to right on to here somewhere Is this thing strong enough? I don't know it's Yeah, it'll probably be all right Okay, first thing I should just get that motor off and bring it over And just just take a look. Uh, it should be enough. Hopefully I'll be back in a minute with that thing over Okay, that was a bit of a struggle, but I got it As uh As expected These things are really corroded in here and they didn't I couldn't loosen those so I just had to like wrestle the thing off the transom Luckily I had the foresight to put a few little pieces of wood here and there so it wouldn't damage the transom just those garbage pieces of wood. Okay Well, let's let's see what I do with this thing. I love these propellers. Look at the size of that thing. It was great All right, I gotta give this thing into the shade Oh man the sun has been brutal lately I had this string on here to prevent this thing from steering because on the other boat Uh, this didn't do any steering. I just needed to stay straight So let's get this off because I will use the steering features on this boat How am I gonna attach it? I don't I don't know Tie it on. No, I'm not gonna tie it on Let's let's get this string off. Then we can Do it I know I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to look at it and see what ideas we can come up with Or I can come up with maybe you can give me some ideas too. All right, I got the string off now the steering Basically this part rotates. Well, this part really stays stationary the rest rotates Oh man. Oh wow is that? that's Yeah, that should be able to oh wow that is really stuck All right, so maybe just Maybe that does not rotate anymore All right, this this whole section is like seized on and I tried pretty hard to get it moving So I think I'm just going to angle grind Down here and then on the other side and then hopefully just take that right off Without damaging, you know this this part that goes through there Yeah, I can do that Yes, the spark saw not not the angle grinder. Sorry the spark But I barely touched the middle part Did get a little bit Kind of impressed with this This wheel it went through the aluminum pretty well Because these get gummed up really easily All right, there was a collar here. I cut that off too. So now I've got a just a tube here and I measured on the other motor From the top of the propeller Up to where it bolts on to the you know the next part And so it's from here to here and that part is like somewhere out here So basically if I can make something that fits around here comes out then has a flat part here That's you know right at this level Then I should be able to bolt it on to the existing stuff And then you know if I make it kind of loose then it can rotate here And that will work well for the steering I don't even know if I have All right, let's go look in my pvc Scrap zone here This is not too far off All right, I'll have to melt this a bit to get it to fit However, okay the purpose of this Is to basically just put something on here that this can rub against and kind of wear against a little bit That's not going to cause any more corrosion the this is aluminum aluminum. I'm pretty sure And against plastic it's fine Um now if I make this other part out of metal I would not want that in contact with this Because then it'll they'll have corrosion issues. So I definitely want a plastic sleeve on here All right, so what I need to make Is not that complicated Okay, and then over here Let's see what kind of perspective. Yeah, that's basically that this has some kind of thickness of course and uh So the the motor part that pipe goes through here And maybe I'd want to make this in two pieces. So this Is disconnected and you know can bolt together so I can take it off and on Maybe I don't know if I need to do that Okay To be totally honest I'm sick of fiberglass. So I want to do this out of stainless steel The only concerns I have with stainless steel is if I have two thin sheets of steel here Then this part might might be too flexible. It might be too easy to bend There are a few different ways I could deal with that I'm thinking oh, let's see. This would have a Okay, so basically one piece we go across here and then fold out the other piece we go across here and fold out Yeah, so like One piece like that another piece Like that and then bolted bolted bolted and then bolted all the way Okay, so this part here. I want to make sure it's not too flexible and flimsy So maybe there's a some kind of sheet of something And I could put in there, you know kind of like a board but not a wood one because I don't want to make something that's gonna rot Of course, this would work great. However, there's no way I'm using that on this particular thing It is too valuable Even though I have a whole other piece and that stuff is so nice. I save it for really nice stuff Where I really need this strength But this particular piece does not need that much strength. It's just gonna be sandwiched between Two sheets of metal to just kind of give some rigidity I mean I could almost use like a piece of foam or something, but it's got to be stronger than that Oh, if I remember correctly Oh, yeah, there it is. Okay Is that what I think it is? I think that's what I think it is Yeah, okay So this is very similar to that other piece of plastic that there's no way I was going to use it But this is Way crappier and old and has been used and has cracks Not nearly as strong, but this does not have to be strong. I can definitely use a piece of this on it Okay, I went out and did some measurements. This is like two and a half to three inches across here And the thickness here is fine if I've got That chunk of plastic in there's plenty of space for it. So I think I think I've got a plan Well, obviously here's my new material. I've preferably don't have to use And over here we've got the garbola Yeah Should be able to get something out of here All right, I just took a hacksaw and cut that to the right length. Yes, I did good and then Cut a slit down one side And now what's next? I heated up the pipe Wrapped it around here and I was really hoping to have these ends Flare out and then the other one flare out and then they just match up Uh, but it was it was just too hard to manipulate. So I just wrapped it around It's overlapped And it's overlapped by that much right there So now I'm thinking if I cut this top layer off right there, then this should match up with the piece there Someone was asking a while ago what discs I'm using that are going through aluminum aluminum pretty well So this is what I used yesterday See how we did there. Oh, that's that shut That is about perfect. Oh, I don't want to change that at all. Yeah It's a tiny bit snug But easily rotates Well, I found this in my scrap metal and it looks like it might Be the perfect size. Oh, wow That is yeah, if I cut that right down the middle, that'd be perfect And it looks like it's about the right size to wrap around there and have the right distance All right, let's see how far this is Okay, eight and three-quarter noodles Okay, eight and three quarters all the way around So if I take one of the pieces, it's four and three-eighths Halfway around I'm going to put the chunk of metal in which is Three quarters all the way across so half of it would be three-eighths. So I can take that three-eighths off. So I've got four Imperial noodle units there to there I probably want to take off like an eighth just to make sure it's not too loose Because if it's a little bit too tight, I can just put a washer in there. I'd rather Okay, so three And seven eighths, okay Noodles Okay, say we use this lip As the part here that bolts it together at the end And then let's measure how far Oh, I love this thing. Thank you to the person who sent this to me. I also have a A sheet metal bender And a pipe bender. I have to set up still Stinky brains Okay, now we're getting somewhere. So I want to do here Some more between two and a half to three inches. All right, two and three quarters Oh, wow That is a good-looking piece of hardware right there Man, I hope it works All right, hopefully I can leave those two bolts in at the back and just So enough force it on how many bolts do you want over here? I guess three three left More space than I needed Which isn't a problem. That's fine All right, just need a spacer in there All right, let's see these nuts fit on there Okay, yeah, that's about right Why am I going through from the bottom to the top? Because all of these went through that way. It totally doesn't matter, but I want to keep them all the same And this one's got a lock nut Just because I think these ones are most likely to come loose Oh, that looks great And I probably should have put some grease in there before I Just Then I can stuff a bit up there So just put a bit of oil in there and it'll drip down Okay, I got the old motor off and the thing I noticed about this is it is way heavier The motor ends about the same But down here all this stuff. Oh so much heavier than this All right, it looks like I made things about right Yeah Oh, that looks about perfect. It's just held on with my vice grapes right now So all I have to do is put a few holes in And my bolts All right some good All right, I guess I better check that this motor actually works. I haven't used it in months. It should be fine I hope Okay, I'm just kind of resting those on there I'm not gonna bolt them in yet. I don't even know if they're connected the right direction but let's Oh, whoa That is awesome. I'll tell you what's awesome in a second So right now it's it's sprinkling. It's raining. There's hardly any sun out And when I when I move this switch forward When it contacts right here that connects a couple solar panels And it doesn't get to the batteries till I'm connecting way up here And I already turned on the battery switch because I presumed Based on my last motor that it wouldn't do anything on the solar panels in this low light, but It looks like it looks like this motor has a way lower startup Amperage So that's great Um That is really good. Oh man. All right, uh Let me screw those in the propeller was turning the right direction Um So I can screw my wires and everything and I have a little motor for the cover. Let me put the red Move this a little bit and tighten it on here Oh, you gotta see this. Okay, look I might have to use this to help clean out my canal because watch this I gotta go for a test drive now Oh, that came out so good. Oh, okay. Let's go. We got a test drive Uh, where am I gonna go? I don't know. Okay Wait a minute. I still have to connect the steering. All right. Hopefully it's really easy to connect Oh, this is already got a hole right here put a bolt through I kind of want to trim some of this off though Yeah, that would be good It might even be good to put a hole a little further up. Oh hacksaw. All right I got it. I probably don't even need to screw well. Oh, you gotta stick your spot. Come on Doing with my steering is I just slide that on Call it good enough All right, I want to I need it to be easy to get off Uh, because I don't want to leave that on when I lift the motor Right now this hole is a little tight Loose the upper bit. Well, that's what I call some steering right there Well, man, that was great. Now it keeps my wires up there. I should have done that ages ago No, I just wiped off my camera lens. I had some grease on there. I think that's better Right ocean Hey, let's see what's going on Doing a bit of reversing back there