 Oh, yeah, pouring rain. Oh, I'm filling up my little concrete buckets. That's good. All right, what's a rainy day job? I know. I want to make pedal power for my biggest boat, my cargo boat, the shark slicer. And somewhere around here, I have a paper with the dimensions on it. Oh, here we go. Oh, that's kind of a mess. Let's get a new cement bag here. There we go. Okay, here we are on the boat, trying not to get rained on too much. I've got these slots. And, you know, boards go across here to make the floor. And here, and here, and here, I have five of these slots. And where I want to put the pedal power is right back there. And all of these slots are pretty much the same size, except, you know, they obviously get wider up here. But whatever, the length here is the same everywhere. So, if I make a pedal power thing that will, like, fit in one of these slots, that means I can put it here, or there, or there, which might be a nice feature, even though it's probably gonna stay in the same place most of the time. Ah, I love this boat. Yeah, this'll be fun to start driving again. I'm gonna change the roof, too, but let me get the pedal power done first. I should also take this boat and park it in a spot that's kinda gonna be easier. Well, I guess it's easy to get to here. Whatever. All right, let's work on this pedal power. Okay, so those slots, whatever you call them, are 62 Imperial noodle units wide and 39 long. I know it seems like this should be the width and that should be the length, but the boat's long this way, so I'm calling this the length, whatever. All right, so I need to make my pedal thing fit here, a paddle wheel right in the middle and another pedal thing over here. Okay, I'm starting with 62 noodle units for the width here. And I need to have some bearings on the ends here. Those are non-negotiable, I need those, obviously. And I'm gonna make those out of PVC, so they're never gonna rust or anything. And I need to figure out what width they need to be so that I can figure out how to calculate the rest of this. And I am going to make those bearings out of this thing. This is something I made a few years ago to be a cement mixer. Like, these all roll, so I could put a barrel in here. My hand's a little bit swollen, it's almost better though. So I could put a barrel in here, fill it with cement and then it would be able to roll around, like a hamster cage around rolling on these things and on these, but I never used it. I don't think I'm ever gonna use it. Like, I did my whole floor in here just dumping buckets back and forth. So I think it'll be more valuable as bearings for the pedal thing. They're pretty nice bearings. So how wide do I need to make them so they'll be strong enough to handle, you know, leg power? Maybe just whatever that is, it probably doesn't even need to be that wide. There's a fair amount of space in the top here. I could trim that, make this a little thinner. Maybe like three or four noodle units across imperial inches. Oh yeah, I'll have to put a lip on the other side here because the way this works now, it's always in this orientation. So gravity holds it together, but if I put it in a boat, I'll have to have it held in on both sides. Oh, and for anyone who doesn't know how these PVC bearings work, it's just a bunch of PVC pipes in there. And they roll around. Works really, really well. All right, I guess I'll just start by drilling out all the rivets and taking this thing apart. Future washer. Nice. Get back in there, guys. That's so cool. Holds up all my way, no problem anyway. I think that's strong enough. Four and a half noodle units. Let's see what these are. Three and three eighths noodle units. Why three and three eighths? Are these even all the same length? No, they're not. All right, so I can trim them all to be the same length. I think I'll make them all three noodle units long. And then I'll make this thing four imperial noodle units. That'll give me a half a noodle unit on each side to make the little rim, whatever you call it. All right, trim all those. Wow, I did a really crappy job cutting these because they didn't have to be straight. It wasn't on any kind of precision instrument. I'm gonna have to straighten out both sides though. Oh, that's gonna be pain in the butt. Oh, I could use a disc sander right now. Also, I just smashed my toe. You know what? I know what 90 degrees feels like. I can just sand one side down. Yeah. I'm gonna cut the other end. I'm gonna straighten out. Okay, I've got one side done on two bearings worth. All right, there's one set. I'll cut the other end off with a hacksaw very carefully and sanded it. They should be precise enough. Oh, I just remembered I have a huge thing of little screws. Should be thick enough. I'll use the side I just cut as the flat side since I did just measure that line pretty well. To hold it steady where it is. Hold this little ring here. Oh, yeah. So that the rollers don't fly. Yeah. Yeah. All right, that should hold it pretty steady. Yeah, once you get in it a little bit, it should be, let me hold this. All right, just got that one under control. Second ring going in. And now, I guess I can start on the next one of these. There's my original piece to measure all the others by. By which to measure all the others, whatever. And I was sticking these in my bench vise to cut them. I need to get another bench vise. How can I cut these without that? All right, I'll just wait a few minutes for those. I can cut that. No, that needs the same vise. Oh, I know. I can get, in these things, I have to cut out this little, this little nub in here. I can do that just holding it in my hand, if that hacks out. Because these are the angles, the joints, angles, whatever you call them, for my pedal tower thing. And the whole thing's gonna be wrapped with fiberglass. So, I wanna get that out of there so it's not interfering with the fiberglass. Oh, you're done? I was just about to, all right. Oh, I missed a hole. You missed it? All right, go do it on. You're doing good though. You're almost done already. You left your screwdriver. Okay, the last thing we have to do to this, is trim this in this gray part off down to that white. So it's not wider than it needs to be. That side's right, so I have to do it on that side. I guess I'll just be another hacksaw job. What? See, too, hello, I can see with my giant eye. Hello, I can see you. I, I am a rock, rock, rock. One of these rings off, so if I take this one off first, I won't be able to get it back on. This one I can screw from the outside. Sturdy, rolls very nicely. It's a little bit loose, but that's okay, because that means dirt can get in and fall out. Yeah, four of those should be great. The ones I made of these for my other boat are much more snug. So, you know, it's not wiggly in here at all. And occasionally they kind of get stiff. Like if some dirt gets in or something. So I think this will be better.