 Where did my screwdriver go, Bellatrix? What did you do with it? Seriously? So I have this situation where I live on an island and to drive my boat into my island I come through this little channel that's about a hundred meters long like a little water channel, a canal, right? And over time leaves fall into it and darkens into it and it starts filling up slowly, right? And years ago I made a sucker which is what is right here that I'm taking apart right now and this thing would suck the muck out and squirt it somewhere else like onto the land where the water would run out and it would basically stay on the land and then it would make a little bit more land which is great but basically it just kind of cleaned out the canal to keep the right depth so I'm not trying to drive the boat through sediment and muck, right? However, my canals were so cleaned out and doing so well that I didn't need this thing for a long time I ended up decommissioning it and used the motor for something else and some of the parts for other things and now it's been a few years since then and at least one of my canals, you know, it's got like that fair amount of muck on the bottom and when the tide is low my boat is kind of scraping through the muck and it's harder to move so I don't want to let that keep building up so I want to rebuild a muck sucker I only want to just take all that apart I'm pretty sure I want to redesign this whole area anyways I might have to rent this thing out to people A lot of people have the same problem Come on, I can start a muck sucking business You need your muck sucked, I will suck your muck Maybe not the best slogan This is actually some not bad engineering and now when I built this I didn't have anywhere near the amount of tools I have now I made a pretty nice roller bearing in there Whoa, that is a cool bearing I'm gonna have to reuse that for sure Yeah, this went through a lot All the rollers are still in good shape This comes apart, this comes apart I'm pretty sure that comes apart I don't know if not I could put it all together Actually that won't be that hard Yeah, so this obviously had a lot of dirt flowing through it That's why I just made it with all these jumbo parts Kind of loose fitting So the dirt and muck could get in there and get back out Looks like it worked really well Alright, tubo redondo brionte one inch diameter About 1.5 millimeter wall thickness 316 stainless steel, okay I got five of those I guess I can use one of those I always try to use from my scrap pile first But I don't really have anything So breaking into the new materials I'm pretty sure they're in this pile here somewhere Not in the front Oh, no, they're in the pile right there Oh, yeah, they're there Okay You're having trouble getting all the things in before, right? Because they would fall down I'm not gonna do it No, I'm gonna show you Here, put the pipe in And the pipe will take up the space And you put those up around the pipe So get the rest of the rollers, stick them in there You have to give them more space Try to get them in there Don't fight it Just tell me if you need me to move this out of the way more Okay, so you can get the last one The last two Does that look like all the spaces are pretty much taken up? It's pretty loose bearing That's to work well I want it to be loose Why do I want it to be loose? So it spins fast Well, no, so all the dirt can get through And it doesn't get stuck I want this bearing to be a little more snug So I'm making a sleeve that fits over this What? Couldn't find anything that fit Oh, man Right on here So I got a PVC pipe that's a little bigger Cut a slot out and I'm melting it to fit Hopefully it'll fit in that bearing wherever it will Wow, that is great Yeah, I like that more It was a little too loose before I think I'll use the same basic setup down here Except now the bearing fits a little tighter Before I had this rubber thing on here That was supposed to help keep dirt from getting into here But it's a little abrasive It's car tire, which is gritty So it actually left a lot of scoring on the other thing We're not going to use that And this fits tighter now So that should block most of the muck from going this way What's supposed to happen here is the muck This has a propeller It's right here Sucks the muck in And then there's another kind of propeller thing That pushes out here That helps the muck go this way And the muck gets pushed up against here So it can't get through up into this pipe very easily But if a little gets through it's fine It just lubricates the thing and whatever and dumps out But most of it should get squirted out up here And then goes through this pipe Stick that back on there So I need to make some kind of propeller on here Let's see what I can do I think I can reuse some of my propeller blades there Those ones look not bad I bent it a little to get a bit better shape than it had Still not the most spectacular propellers in the world But they are very tough You know, I'm inevitably going to hit some kind of little sticks and stuff That's not no problem Not the prettiest propeller in the world But should do pretty good Now I want at least one more set of propeller blades Maybe, I don't know I just want to get as much force shoving the muck that way Let's leave that for now We need a motor at this end I think this guy right here What am I before 24 to 48 volts I'll run it at 24 So that'll mean like 2,150 rpms-ish 2,000 to... I can't read it Alright, just pay attention for a second Nothing bad should happen here But you know Okay, it definitely works Alright Hey, while I've got it up here Before I put it on anything I think I will open it up And just clean everything out Give it a bit of a tune up Put it in here No, no, no, not everyone Because a bunch of these are attached just to the brushes This one right here Goes through into the frame Okay First thing I'm noticing here These are the brushes These are what touch this part And put electricity in there And they're all spring loaded But like these four aren't moving So these two are good They're nice and clean But these four We're gonna have to get them moving And clean them out Just get any dirt or anything out of there Now let's see how lucky I am Oh, look at that Oh, it's pretty snug A little bit of space Put a shim in there But it's pretty good I'm not entirely sure if this is gonna work But let's give it a try Get rid of that Get rid of that All right, now we're starting to get somewhere Except this is gonna be curved the opposite direction I think I can do something with that I think All right, let's get out of that way And I think I can get that to work Oh, come on, you little jerk That is pretty good Think? It's not stuck on there anyway I think it'll work All right, I need to make sure this Actually fits over it And I might want to put something here too To help the muck Get shoved up through there Something that's nothing fancy We'll just push it away from the center All right, I think that's gonna be pretty good I have to take these two off To get this on Hopefully all this stuff fits inside here Haha, nice, it fits A little bit of wiggle room Wow, that looks excellent in there Yeah, I think that's gonna be really good I think I don't know Muck will get sucked in here And blown up out here Easy part Yeah, I'll put a couple of screws in there Let me worry about the end up there first What happens up there? All right, I got that attached Oh, I put the motor on with a Toilet flange Which surprisingly fit perfectly And the motor's inside the pipe in there I don't remember if I got a video of this But it has one hole right through And a bolt connecting them Now Hopefully Mug will get shot up here And out here And then Let me reattach this I'll just put a few screws in there I think this thing is actually ready to test