 All right, I'm in my little boat here, and I've just made a bunch of modifications to it One was the steering I fixed the steering seems to be working spectacularly Yeah No working great and Open the back here. Well, let's check on a little speed resistor. Oh, it looks good Okay, back here, you know, I've always had this I've always had vibrations problems with this boat and I'll get it kind of fixed for a while and then Something I don't know. Would you start to vibrate again? So finally I was like damn it. I just need to Just fix this thing once and for all and I did a bunch of things so one Where the motor Attaches to the propeller shaft. I made one of these. I don't know what these are called You know, it's the the three prong thing with like a rubber thing in the middle and the rubber thing is just a piece of car tire rubber that I tried to cut as accurately as I could And this makes it so that You know, it just dampens vibrations between the propeller shaft and the motor And the three prong thingies I just made out of a like a thick wall piece of pipe Kind of eyeballed it and blah blah blah and then I also Put a bearing on the top of the propeller shaft So that it's not just relying on the motor to keep it straight. It's actually keeping itself straight It's all locked in there Nice and tight doesn't doesn't move And then I made a real motor mount, which you can't really see but You can see some of the stuff down there. There was a lot of uh cardboard uh assisted design and that and then Probably the most important thing is I put this Going from one wall here all the way to the other wall there and it's bolted into the front of the motor so that should really keep the front of the motor from vibrating and You know, I made it so that the motor mount has like adjustable stuff And it's also got some stuff down there. Anyway I think I got the motor lined up pretty well And then with this piece here It should keep the whole thing Steadyer and the reason I really got Kind of crazy about doing all this was because When I when I made this thing It cut down on some of the motor vibration and I noticed an increase in speed Like it was like it was a noticeable increase in speed No no increase in motor or anything like it didn't switch the motor is just I just got rid of some of the vibration And uh, yeah, it went faster. So now with all those With all those modifications, I'm hoping This boat goes faster than before on the same power. It should just run more efficiently in general So let's Start her up Oh, yeah, that's that's running way smoother than it ever has All right, but the slow speed is not going to be I don't know Maybe it's going faster. I don't know Before I couldn't really tell the difference until I got to the fast speed and then I was like, well, that's All right, let's speed up a little Oh man, it's so nice the vibrations are just dead back there All right, let's crank it up I love this boat. It is so good It was down So there is there is a bit of a rattle back there and I'm I'm pretty sure it's just the uh The tube that surrounds The propeller shaft doesn't have a lot of clearance So it just kind of it just touches a little bit But um, it's just making a little noise. It's not making any any noticeable vibrations. So I'm not going to worry about that. Let's go. Let's go take a look at the motor while it's going Yeah, nothing. Nothing shaking back here I think this boat is uh running better than it ever has And I think it should stay that way with the with the motor mounted in the in the better position now Like just mounted a lot better Yeah, I don't because like before I've I've I kept doing stuff to like fix the vibrations And it was always kind of half-assed Efforts, you know things that I would kind of get it lined up good. So it would be running real well Then you know, the the motor would start vibrating at its natural frequency And they'd just shake a bunch of stuff loose and then it would be back to how it was But yeah, this I'm pretty sure Is gonna stick All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna go get some pizzas I should get my uh amp meter out Next time I get the boat out, I'm not gonna go get it right now See if I decrease the power level at all Like the power consumption