 I got my second pontoon smoothed out pretty well and today I want to work on some pedals. And this morning I just came out here and did a little test of something. Also we have baby ducks. They're brand new. I'll show them when we can like pull them out and stuff. I think that's why the chickens are yelling so much. Anyway here's the thing. So I got this thing recently in one of my Craigslist tool lot buys. And it's a pipe bender. And I tested it on, get out of here wasp. I tested it on this aluminum aluminum pipe. And it did pretty good. Didn't collapse the thing. It was really hard to bend. Which you know is a good and a bad. It means it's hard to do but it's really strong still. So if I can take one of these pipes and bend it into pedal shape I think that'll be really good. And then I'll wrap it with fiberglass after. This one I think is one solid piece that might be long enough. Oh wait this one has threads on the end and a connector so I'll be able to take this little piece off and put as much on as I need if I run out. Put a longer pipe in the handle here. Give me a bit more leverage because it was really hard to bend it. I need to make a thing that looks like this. You can see that. Hopefully these will be rotated 90 degrees to these. Yesterday my friend and I were over at boat construction island and I was working on the boat and he was working on something else. And then we ended up spending like an hour just staring at the boat talking about it. And I think we got it all worked out. I'm using a super simple pedal wheel. Pedal wheel. The pedals. You know because like they're easy to make, easy to deal with. They're not complicated, easy to repair. There's not much I can go wrong with them. There's just a lot of benefits to them. And then the front cargo area I think I'm just going to put wood boards across that can be removed so that we only need the weight of the front floor if we're actually taking a bunch of cargo. And no one's going to sit on the pontoons. The pedal stuff's all going to go between the pontoons so I don't have to cut into the pontoons to make space for the pedals. Plus you know if you're sitting way out on the pontoons it's harder to get in the shade. So according to my imperial noodle units here, anyway I've got six foot tape measure here and that's the space between the pontoons. So I figure two feet can be for pedals. Then two feet can be for the pedal wheel. Then another two feet for the pedals. And I'll have to you know not go right up to the edge of six feet because I don't want to be scraping the pontoons. I need to remember that. So if I can get all my corners to be like this it's pretty good. It's pretty tight corner. I can come in like two inches from the end. It's like five centimeters. And that'll be enough space to not hit the pontoon. And still plenty of space. Here's the five foot mark that would be where the middle thing. That's tons of space. This could even come in more. Or I could just leave a bit of extra space here. Alright first thing I need to do, bend the first corner. That's just going to be the one that goes out to the bearing. And when I do it I need to mark it a lot so I know where this corner ends up being in relation to where I put the bender. Because I'm going to need things on this to line up like the four spots where the bearings will be. They'll have to be lined up pretty well. So I need the bend. I need to know exactly where the bender is going to put the pipe thing. I can bend this. A few degrees. I think I went slightly past 90 degrees. And that is pretty close to kinking but still within acceptable parameters. And it looks like it's 90 degrees to here and then this part of the pipe curves a little. So if I take my hammer and straighten this part out. Because this is where the pedal part is where you put your feet. I'm going to want to make a roller bearing on this so I want this to be straight. Now the part of the other end of the thing that came out really straight. So when I do the next curve it should leave this straight. So I guess I'll just have to doctor these a little bit. Look at the hammer and smack it. Okay that looks pretty excellent. Of course the alternative to this is to just get a bunch of PVC pipes and use 90 degree anglers and it wouldn't be nearly as strong. So I guess I've got one shot at this. I better save this in case I lose my line. From here to the outside edge of here is five imperial noodle units. Maybe that means it's time for breakfast. I had a steel pipe here. I'm wrapping it in fiberglass so it wouldn't matter. That's rusty steel. I don't have one anyway. I'm not waiting to get one. The benefit of using this was the strength which is not existent now with crack. So it would be relying on the fiberglass wrapped around it anyway. So all right moving on to option number B. Man my junk supplies are dwindling. But I think I have enough of this size PVC pipe to make the thing. I think I'm going to go classic candle melt the pipe technique and I can use these on the ends because they don't have to be tight corners. And it looks like I'm going to have to 90 degrees alize these things too. You know what? Forget those. Just start from scratch. Start with the long pipe because that will definitely have enough to do one side of the pedals. That is coming out pretty nice angles. This obviously isn't the strongest corner in the world but it doesn't matter at this point. I just need something to be the right shape because it's going to get covered in fiberglass. This is a really important one because the piece coming out here has to line up with that piece there because it's going to be a bearing there and a bearing here. Now I need to make another one and that pipe's obviously not long enough. There's a little baby duck in there. Don't worry, I'm not going to bother you. She has six baby ducks so far. Good job, mom. My junk pile is kind of pitiful right now. I'm slacking off. I need to get more junk. I did find a pipe that kind of already has a job and it's not that important. I can take it. Actually the first pipe had a job too. It was the phone from the third floor to the first floor in the house here so people could talk into the pipe and hear it the different way. Not that important. I can replace it. I'm making one side of pedals pretty big and the other ones are much smaller. Or do you think that these ones are small enough that you'll be able to pedal on them? Good. What about you, Bellatrix? Yeah, good. Oh, beauty. Nice. And this pipe fits inside this pipe. So I'll be able to put them together. That's pretty much what I want there. Off to measure. Make sure it's the right distance. Obviously I can adjust in the middle. Oh, that's great. Now I need to get fiberglass on it and make sure these stay lined up. Yeah, this thing down the middle has to all be straight. Then I can worry about the paddle wheel in the middle. This one's huge. Back up, Bellatrix. That should be your name. Fluffy fuckball. But we don't even know what you are yet.