 It took like an hour and a half to drill all these stupid holes, but two, four, five, six, seven, eight. I don't know how long it actually took. But anyway, got it all together. Just got to tighten some bolts on the side of the motor. It's got four spots where there are screws going into the electromagnets that are in the housing. And when I got the motor, it actually had like a mounting part attached to one of them. So I figured it was okay to mount something to those screws. And then I make sure I drilled the holes really well and got them lined up perfectly. And I think it seems pretty smooth. I think I can put some electricity in here. Let's see. Let's get two bars of this wire. This is only an 18 volt battery. And we're going to run this over 24 volts, but still be good enough to see that everything is balanced well enough. I mean, I can feel it a little bit of vibration like it's moving, but not that I think there's anything particular I'll learn from doing this, but I wanted to run it with the blade on there for a minute. You know, just to check, I think everything will be fine. I will, of course, have to take those little, whatever, cover off. Yeah, that seems to be great. It's a little underpowered with that battery. Yeah, everything seems to be running perfectly. I'm kind of really liking the aesthetic of this too. Like the motor, now that it's got all this paint off it, it's just kind of rusty and greasy. I'm going to leave the blade off that thing so it's not dangerous. Now there was, there is one non ideal thing about this setup, which is that it's going to pivot here, which means this whole thing is to pivot like that. And most of the weight is kind of far away from the pivot point, which means, you know, it'll be a little bit hard to pivot it, although it's not that hard. I can do it by my hand. However, keeping just the motor going right into the shaft with no gears or belts or pulleys or anything like that, should be the most efficient way to deliver the power to the blade. So I think it's worth it, even having the motor like so far from the pivot point. The last time I made a swing blade lumber mill, I had the motor up here and had a pulley and the blade shaft also had a pulley. So the motor was much closer to the pivot point. I can't speak clearly because my brain is thinking about mechanical things. All right, let's do some math. Figure out what I need to do to get a pivot point right here that's going to be really solid. So this whole thing can pivot up and down, and the blade will stay lined up like this. This can't bend at all. It's got to be really, really strong and then connect to something about that far away. Where's mine? So if the blade's there, it's going to have to go on a frame that's wider than the blade. And I may at some point use a bigger blade. So I probably want to leave a little bit extra space. So I need some sticks coming out here that, yeah. Oh, while I have one of these, I can make a hole and thread it, take this nut off and screw it right in. No, I think I only have one of those. Do I only have one of those? Oh yeah, I do have another one of those. It's right up there. I don't think I want to use that anyway though. Let's see what I've got around here. I'm just going to go through all my junk pile. Oh, these stupid things right here would be perfect. I already have a job. I was considering carving a hole into this and putting the motor shaft right inside that probably because it would move the motor closer. All right, if I took this thing and cut a chunk out of it, took that out and then attached this right where it needs to go there and attached this right where it needs to go there, would this part here keep that lined up with that? And then cut all this other junk off because really I just need something that's going to keep this end lined up with this end in a straight line. All right, another possibility is use two of these, cut that off there and just attach this right here. And then since I have two attachment points, you know, they don't have to be attached as well. And since you're two here, it'll keep it from moving that way. I'll just have to make sure I do something good to make sure they don't move that way. Bolt this into there and then bolt this down to there. I cut those off obviously to get it into the right spot. Geez, maybe I should check the positioning of this, see if it fits. It looks like it does. Then you get a couple bolts in through here, two bolts that hold this into place. And then presuming this has a reasonably decent 90-degree surface, this one's probably better because it doesn't have those holes ending it. Then I can bolt this right onto there. Oh, that might be the way to do it. Oh crap, those are crooked. This piece here is going up. Same with that one. That one's not as bad, but it looks like they're made like that. I don't know, maybe they got bent. These other pieces, however. Leasons are lined up. Yeah, so maybe I cut this chunk off and use that. And this is actually thicker pipe anyway. Oh, the end of this one's bent. All right, what's the other end looking like? Oh, that end looks pretty straight. You know, it'd be stupid. This end, so this was originally a boat and it was, or on a boat, and it was held here, and it lifted some heavy stuff over there. So this part got a little bent. The part here also got a little bent because it had weight on this, so I bent that a little. Both of them are a little bit bent. But it doesn't really matter. This section is straight, so that's what I can use to make the pivot. And all I have to do is just take this as the reference. So when I cut a line here, just make it 90 degrees to that. Not to this, just to that. Yeah, it's totally fine. What am I wearing? Okay, I have a 12 noodle wide blade. So this has to at least be 12. However, well, I want to leave at least a bit of clearance anyway. But I may at some point want to put like a 16 inch blade on this. Yeah, I think I can get away with that. Who knows, maybe I'll start it and it won't be going fast enough with a 12 inch and it'll be too strong and I'll have to switch to a 16. Anyway, I want to be able to fit a 16 noodle blade on here. So from the center here out to where this pivots has got to be, I guess, eight and a half noodles. So what's the total width here? Seven, seven three quarters. So half of that would be, come on, brain, seven and a half and three eight. So three and seven eighths, yeah. So out to eight, I would need to add four and an eighth. So maybe add four and five eighths. And I would put this at eight and a half noodles. There'd be 17 noodles wide. So I could fit a 16 inch blade in there without hitting the edge. All right, four and five eighths, imperial noodle units. Looks about right, brought to you by the letter H or Y. Now that looks like it might be a good thing. I don't need the whole piece, so I could just cut off a chunk. Except I think I need to make it two cuts. That's going to be annoying, but whatever. Because where they made these holes, it bent the metal. So this is kind of doggiered up. The same was over here. So I'm going to cut those ends off. I mean, I should have pretty flat there and pretty flat here. I keep having this feeling like, there's a hundred things I need to be doing. But obviously I can't do a hundred things at once. And all these things that I need to do are things that I would have to focus on totally. It's not even like I can multitask them. I can't do this at the same time as, all right. Yeah, this doesn't really matter what I'm working on. I just got to pick something. Right now I'm doing this, making good progress. So I gotta get my brain to chill out. Chill out brain. I know there's a lot of amazing stuff to do. A lot of stuff to get done. This is an important thing to get done. Let's do it. All right, come on, brain. I just checked, you know, of course, after I cut it. The angle here, that thing is not 90 degrees. It is off by quite a bit, actually. This, however, is, as far as my eyeballs can tell, pretty much dead on 90 degrees. Should I use this instead? Because this is thicker and the thing does need to be really rigid. And this already has holes and they're not necessarily what I want them to be. So I could just smash this with a hammer and kind of bend it back out, but that's not going to come out even. So now maybe I should just, all right, I think I know what to do. I put this on here and I smash this with a hammer and it'll squeeze these pipes in a little bit. So they'll end up bending out a bit like that. That's not that much, obviously. It's exaggerating for visual purposes. But then when I bolt it down, it'll be like that. And I just need to make sure that surface is 90 degrees to this. All right, I think that's what I'll do. Yeah, okay. I'm going to get these on. It's about to get noisy in here. How accurately can I eyeball this? That's on there pretty good. Right.