 Yesterday I picked up the motor. I came in a nice crate and It's an easy outboard L05 Oh, it looks like some nice quality parts even things like Like this is just a handle that screws on here to make it easier to pick up the whole thing and it's Like heavy-duty stainless steel really nicely machined. I hope all the parts are that nice Hope all the electronic stuff is is that good. Oh, check out the handle So fancy So this is the throttle control Has three different modes economy normal and sport So it would be economies low power normal power and full power and one thing I noticed right away it was that This entire hub rotates now I Don't know what's going on inside here, but that may mean They got around the need for rubber seals protecting electronic stuff Because supposedly, you know the the electronic wires come in here and there's some electronic stuff On the inside here But then this outer part Doesn't need any electronics connecting to it because it's brushless So Yeah, they're all the electronic stuff May not be protected by a rubber seal which would greatly extend the life of something like this I hope that's what they did another kind of cool thing is I Don't know if you can see on the camera trying to get it lined up But this has a hole right through it out the front So a water can pass through the middle So not all the water has to flow around the outside some can go through the middle So it probably reduces the Water resistance a little bit probably helps keep things keeps things cooler, too The propeller blades come in These things and screw onto the back of the hub there, but I'll get into all this later All right, so I've got the motor I've got my solar panels And then I've got batteries these are 312 volt chunks and inside these boxes are 36 volt chunks So putting those together with those makes 48 volt batteries, which is what the motor over there needs. I Think I have everything I need to get the boat like Done It's gonna take a bit of doing though All right The solar panel holders are like this so when it's closed the solar panels are protected on the inside And then the flaps open And then they have like sticks holding them in the right position One side the sticks are done The other side the sticks are not done. So I think I'll start doing those today The ones I have to do now are more complicated than the other ones. I'll figure it out though. Okay. That's flaps. Oh And haircut I forgot haircut Ah, I don't have time for a haircut. My daughter wants me to grow my hair long anyway, so she can braid it All right, let's skip the haircut. Oh, I'm still a little wiped out from Driving to town yesterday just pedaling I didn't have to get that wiped out, but I wanted to get back faster. So I pedaled real hard So I can hang out with my kids in the afternoon Oh, if I get this boat together though That's gonna cut the travel time in half maybe even less Oh, yeah, let's do it. Oh, come on So that side's looking good now. I need to do something over here Oh, I can't open that what I have to do in the front That's some kind of hingey thing that attaches here That doesn't stick above This thing here Because that's gonna have solar panels that are gonna flap close here And I don't want them to get scratched up on some stupid hinge I put So I need something that like recesses down into the space between these ridges And can attach to pipes over here that'll hold it in place I already have the pipes I can attach them at the bottom the same as I did on the other side. That's no problem Just this top hinge What do I do there? It's also got to be easy to connect and disconnect You know, I was also thinking Up in here, if I put a strip of foam rubber Then when this comes down, it would seal there And this would be Rainproof under here Be kind of like a nice little camping spot One idea I'm gonna try it on one Well, it's definitely low profile No, no, no, I think that might be better I guess that fits nice and snug This thing works That actually looks like it might be all right All right, what I did here was I kept those same plates and just drilled a slightly bigger hole Put a fatter pin in there And then this pipe Is over the side of it. So I have to pull it over to get it into here and then Since it's pulling back that way It keeps it from falling off like you have to pull it And decent out this way to get it off So it kind of locks itself in place Huh, it seems to be working pretty good I might be a good way to do it Super easy to get on and off, that's for sure Hey, you know, I think I'm gonna go with that and if at some point You know, this starts getting floppy and falls off too easily Make some kind of latch thing that it hooks it on Right now it looks like it's Good, that's super easy Hopefully when I disconnect this it goes somewhere good. Oh beauty Yeah I can stay right there I might want to do something about that sagging Oh and Nice big piece of this weird stuff I wonder if I can get it on the edge there Took a little bit of sanding to get that fit on there snug Sure makes a nice edge Now how do I make it stay on there? Hmm if I stick a bolt here and squeeze this It squeezes that little channel shut and now it doesn't come off Oh, I was worried I was gonna have to glue it on Mechanical connection is much better. Oh, yeah, it's just a little bit of sag in there now And since it's metal I can you know bend it up this way a little although That's good. Looks like it's staying on pretty well too Good And it took up so little space I should still be able to get the solar panel on there. No problem Oh, holy cow. It's hot out right now Man sure is nice under the shade I need to go do that other one. Hmm All right into the hot sun we go That should be pretty good back there So since this has to come in like that and that has to go in like that to attach I made this telescoping telescopic So that this can get in there and then this can get in there and it spreads and actually holds them in place Because this is a little bit stiff And I put it on the inside Because this is the side of the boat that's mostly I'm gonna have to aim down because usually the sun's on that side just based on where I go So Yeah with this on this side, it should it shouldn't interfere with that at all It'll interfere a little bit. It'll prevent them from going up But all I just I'll just have to see how much it Gets in the way of that I might have to limit how far I can tip these panels up To accommodate this but I almost never do that anyway It becomes a problem every now I can change it to something else All right front one. Let's see This front panel up here I came out more rigid than the other ones. I must have put more fiberglass on it So maybe it doesn't need anything I'll wait until I uh get the solar panels On here and see if that added weight Makes it bow anymore because right now it's fine So I think I can skip that one This one back here is the one that was really flexing a lot A little bit of flex is fine Hmm. Can I just rivet those solar panels on there? That's probably gonna be what I do You know because I have rivets We end today's broadcast with a special announcement for the experts out there I know guys. I'm doing it wrong again Pen.