 I'm pretty sure that yesterday when the propeller was bent it was because I slid the boat back and it hit the bottom so I'm digging a channel just to get it out there and do a test I need to connect the motor to something because it was attached to this pipe you know through this thing but that centers it on the pipe which I'm not doing anymore so I think I just need to attach it down to the thing that I have down here that's holding it up huh yeah that's good enough for now it's funny this is the replacement for the fancy brass thing I turned on the lathe all right let's see what we got here so that's maybe two thirds power to the motor half to two-thirds we're going to fasten up that the pedals are moving that's a good sign let's crank up the thing a little going slow enough that I can actually pedal and have it do something I left those high enough gear to be helpful even with the motor on it was the plan it cuts out speed right here is just on the solar panels just on three of the solar panels so I'm actually charging about charging the batteries right now while going so I can do this all day and charge batteries that is not bad oh man now it's starting to come together that was such a better test than the first one or the whatever the last one was fourth one eighth one oh why is this mess yeah the breadfruit tree will be happy about it that'll all go over there give him a bit more land I do not want to take that into the salt water all right as long as I rinse it off this should be fine but do not drop the screw no dropping the screw all right Jamie keep in mind if you cut off too much you're gonna have to make whole new blades don't go crazy that's kind of a lot cut off there I think it's not too much all right got my propeller back on there let's do the three solar panel test that actually feels better and there are a few clouds I'm not even getting direct sun oh noticeable improvement I love that noticeable improvement is the best all right let me get the batteries on this all right see how this goes acceleration improvements I'm still getting a rattle though that nearly as bad before check it out it's hilarious that actually explains a few things that explains why the rattle got worse again so maybe I don't need to do anything major to fix that the other thing is that means this is pushing hard enough to bend one of those that's I mean bomber that had bent the propeller but awesome that it's got that much strength and a lot of that I was running with two propeller blades and I was still getting pretty good speed oh this is excellent I just need to what all right I'll hold on I'll be right there oh this is awesome so that means that I was getting pretty pretty good speed even with a compromised propeller and I'm fairly certain I know when it happened it was when I switched from just running on the solar panels to the batteries because there was it there wasn't an increase in speed but not as much as I was thinking it would be and that was because when I got the higher power the propeller blade just but I was still going faster oh man all right so to fix this it's too two basic options I can I can fold this more this way so it's hard to bend that way and make sure I get that that curvature all the way down to there that means the blades off this fold back a little bit the other thing is I can use thicker sheet metal I used really thin on this just because I had a piece of it around and I should just put some thicker stuff but make them the exact same shape as these because these seem like they were doing really well that seems like a really good size for that setup a good thing about this kind of propeller it's not that hard to change the blades it's more of a pain in the butt you just have to take this screw out punch out all the stuff in the middle then these will come out make new ones of these that are thicker and make the geometry a little little better a little curvier put those back in stuff all the stuff back in the middle and Bob's your mom I think I might just try that again with the current blades I bent them more that way they're significantly harder to bend backwards now I will probably want to replace these with thicker sheet at some point all right definitely stronger now