 Hey, look what I pulled out of the boat Yeah, I did not do the best job on that gear I think I was just so sick of cutting gear teeth after this hundred and put the hundred and twenty eight teeth That rushed through this one. So now I'm gonna try to do a good job on this guy Well, that fits much better than the last one A bit of filing right there Yeah Probably like two more turns and it should be good Mom just guess Do not do another one. Yeah, I wasn't careful enough. My bearings just fell at the bottom. They float though There they go Pretty we'll get them. There's one over there. Looks like I see them all. I think they're all there everything back together. I also Drilled two little holes under here one on this side one on the other side So water can come through and lubricate The bearing in there. I think I might get a file and just Tune this up a little bit like there's a spot where it sticks Most of it's pretty smooth smooth for you know Eyeballed and handmade gears. Okay pedal forward for like 10 seconds. So I get the thing lined up, right? Okay, can you can you paddle? Okay, pedal just like you did the first time. I did a much better job on this gear this time That is so much smoother. Oh, and look I've got my little GPS thing Actually see how fast I'm going reset everything All right, let's see how fast we can get this banana rocket From stationery So 9.9 Well 10 kilometers an hour best thing is I was pedaling pretty hard and There was no gear slippage And nothing made a terrible sound Good thing with easy pedaling I Can get over six kilometers per hour pretty easily like You know the kind of pedal pace I could do for hours which is like four Yeah, both four miles per hour And now I need to get my motor here soon because I'm starting to think of ways to make The pedals more efficient in ways that are gonna make it less efficient when the motor gets here Like if I make a bigger propeller and make it, you know the correct pitch Instead of what it is right now, which is kind of high-pitched If I do that I'll be able to pedal faster But I won't be able to go the pedals won't be able to keep up When the motor's going and I mostly want to use this when a motor's going And I just want the pedals to be you know functional to get around But not optimized Definitely want to optimize for when the motors here, and I don't want to put in a bunch of Man the wind is coming. It's gonna mess up the sound Anyway, I don't want to put in a bunch of gearing like I don't want to change gears I want to keep things as simple as possible right now There are hardly any moving parts not much to break and I like that So I just want to optimize it for what I'm gonna do like 90% of the time The motor and the solar panels and everything I need to electrify this sucker will be here in about a week So between now and then I just need to chill out and wait There are a couple little things I can still do I can put a like a tail cone on the propeller Because right now it has a flat back. So we'll just put a cone on that. Oh, yeah, I need to Put stabilizers on this because these just swing freely right now like I can just Push on them and they move I Will definitely want to stabilize those before I put a solar panel roof up here and put expensive stuff in the boat I'm thinking of just putting it like a stick from here up to the front And have a couple different holes I can go to in the front so I can adjust these I Just remember the other major thing I could do Call around here with the bearing that can swivel like a little flat plate and a strap Stick my foot in strap it in. Maybe have a part that comes here. I don't know Maybe just strapped on here is good enough Just so I can pull And to make it so that you know, it's kind of hard to pedal on a round thing Like I can do it but I have to pay attention to not just letting my foot roll You know roll over the thing So every every revolution Slide it back Yeah, that would actually make it Much easier to pedal particularly when trying to pedal fast Clips just went for a few miles and While I was out there I Chipped a gear tooth again. It was kind of weird because It's not like the gear tooth sheared off because half the tooth is still there like totally intact. It's just the one half just cracked off and like totally broke off clean break so What I think is going on is this so like I made the gears Imperfect like I kind of eyeballed them. I don't have the the Thing to control the angles to get the teeth perfectly lined up so I'm hoping as I run them. They'll kind of wear into each other and smooth out, right? I think the plastic is too brittle to expect that to happen because instead of wearing It's just cracking And you know it it took a while I was pedaling pretty hard for a while before it happened, but you know I can I have to presume that's gonna happen again So I guess There's like two main options Either change the material or make more perfect gears So for more perfect gears, I actually have an index indexable rotary table thing Coming in a week when the motor comes I think it should be on that shipment So I could use that to actually remake the gears or just Re-cut the gears into the same piece actually for the big one and then just make a new small one and just make them Really good shapes, so they don't need to wear into each other. They're already like really good shape And that may prevent the the problem The other option, you know changing the material Lots of options there like I could try aluminum aluminium Like melt some down I could even take like the big gear that I have there press it into the clay pull it out and use that as a Mold and melt a bunch of cans and pour that into there Do the only reservation I have with aluminium aluminum is It corrodes in salt water if it's not anodized or something I don't know I might have to do a little research into that to figure out How to make them not have that problem another option would be stainless steel It'd be a little bit tricky But I could make those gears out of stainless steel And the good thing about that is it's you know, it's not brittle. It's a really strong material So even if I can't get the shape like You know really really good The teeth will wear into each other before they snap off like they're not gonna snap off They're the wear into each other So as long as I get them like roughly the right shape The roughness will just kind of get smoothed out as they run And then you know once they're smoothed out stainless steel gears will last Man, maybe I need to do that If I could if I could make a decent set of stainless steel gears, I could just forget about it. They would last forever That's not only a good option now. They're gonna be tricky to make. I don't know I'm not gonna do it right now. It still runs fine Even on you know half a chip tooth So I'm just gonna I'm just gonna ignore the problem for the moment and Let my brain think about the solution I want to do that stainless steel one sounds really good