 Think I want to get the steering put together on this boat And I think I'm just going to rebuild the same kind of steering it had before Because it worked really well in the last two years The only maintenance I ever had to do on it was replace the strings a couple times This is that shaft that rotated that went the whole length of the boat and It's got some nice Bearings on it. I'll probably still use this everything works. Well, however Originally it went all the way to the front of the boat, but now this is going to be all open So it only has to go to there. So I've got some extra and I think This is the right size to do something Very specific. So I'm gonna cut a chunk All right, that pipe is slightly too thick for what I'm doing. However This one looks like the perfect thing Some on the boat might be silicone The replacement for this whole thing So I need these four things Attached to this in some way that it's not going to interfere with the smooth surface on the inside and what I've done previously in the situation is I'll put rivets through from the inside Now the rivet head would get in the way so I countersink them a little bit So they're flush with the surface and this Blue stuff is thick enough that I can sink a rivet in there and it still has enough to grab on to to work well, so I think I'll Figure out some way to attach all this stuff with rivets Unless I have some countersink bolts around We could always grind the heads of the bolts to make countersink bolts Although if I do that, I'm afraid there's not going to be enough material here. However, I could Put that piece on there Do my little rivet trick a bunch of times so that that piece is held in really well Could also glue it but I think a mechanical join will be better and then there will be enough material there to countersink bolts For all these four things These are all attached by bolts originally Well, I probably want to change these arms still attaching them by bolts will be nice And yeah attaching these by the same basically the same bolt Would be great. All right. I think that's what we're gonna do that'll be That'll be really simple As long as I can get it to work right I happen to have some Forstner bits They'll make a nice flat countersink for some rivets. I think that should be countersunk enough Yeah, those are Looking pretty good It should be fine So little nubs sticking up might have to file some of those off All right, that should hold this piece in place pretty well Enough that I can get some screws in there. I don't have any countersunk countersink bolts around So I just cut the top off this one with an angle grinder to make it thinner and I think that'll be fine Looks like the head Slot there. Yeah All right Looks perfect. Oh amazing. Oh beauty. These guys are looking good. These are my arms for this before I think I might want to switch them to something stainless steel Maybe maybe I'll go put this in place Make sure it actually fits. Oh, I hope it fits And then you're here a bit and get this a little bit tighter It's perfectly right there. There's just a spot. Oh Wait, yeah, right over here. It's a little snug So It's just a spot where I had fiberglass here and they're connected so it's extra thick Sand that off a little bit Bit of grease on there lithium grease Whoa, that is slidey There's a way more slidey than it needs to be Perfect. From there the pulleys will pull this sideways They won't tip back They could tip forward. I might have to I might have to put something so it doesn't tip forward, but I'm not gonna worry about that until it becomes a problem shouldn't be a serious thing. That's just Like it's a bolt something on here that comes around. Yeah, I just hold it up. Maybe I should just do that. Whatever. I'll leave it See if it actually is a problem When I use it Um Now what do I do to connect this to this guy over here? Something Well, I might just do a stainless steel rod going straight from one to the other. Okay. What I had before Let me just check that this is actually in What I had before on the other one Was I had the plastic the pvc pipe attached to here another pvc pipe attached to here And I could pull them apart so that when I pulled the motors out of the water It didn't mess up the thing, you know Pull that up whatever that also has that string you can pull. It doesn't work. Um It would be nice if I could just have a steel rod like a stainless steel pipe Going from here straight to here But then what happens when I want to disconnect it and pull this up I need somewhere for that rod to go so say it's connected here. I disconnect this end Do I just like I don't know I can have the connection more flexible So that this could just go up and stay connected You know what I feel I kind of feel like I should just Try putting a stainless steel pipe directly from here to there just one piece of pipe two holes Screw it permanently on. Well, actually maybe maybe that's what I do Maybe I make the temporary connection at this end So when I pull the the motor or the the rudder up I can Take the pipe off here and I don't put it up somewhere I don't know. Let me just I'm just going to try making a straight pipe here with the two holes in it And then then I don't know Okay pipe It's just uh like a half inch Worthen 12 millimeter. I don't know. It's either a half inch or 12 millimeter height Stainless steel pipe looks like it fits I need a bolt Oh, come on Oh deeper That will work just like that falls forward a little whatever it still works So what do I do about pulling up the motor? And the rudder well, I can pull it up enough to get it out of the water without it messing anything up So maybe maybe I just Put the nuts on those loose And just leave it connected all the time I think that might actually be all right. Yeah, I guess that's a good thing that takes that way All right, this is maybe working out pretty well. Oh, did I forget a nut? Oh, I can't breathe it All right, got all my nuts on there. That is beautiful Oh, nice work man. This is going really well if you're with anything rudders out of the water I guess I can Attach my little pulleys up here Although I don't think I need so many pulleys. You know, I had Two pulleys here and I know two or three pulleys up here to make a block and tackle So I could pull a string at the top and easily be able to lift a heavy motor All right me camera battery died there Uh, I didn't stop working while I was charging it and I got this silly thing in there And it turns the steering wheel and the steering wheel turns it. I obviously need to trim this off You know, I'll take this little collar and slide it up next to here to trim it off And I'll have to put a collar on the back too Just to keep that whole thing from moving and amount of the steering wheel Yeah, while the camera was dead. I did a lot of stuff so I got bolts going through there into this and then bolts up there and then These I had to modify slightly but now they're connected up there And that makes the entire steering thing nice and sturdy and I also got the string up in the back. I'll show you in a second, but here. Okay, click in Turn Turn either direction Turn a lot Spin that propeller Not propeller. Is that called steering wheel? Yeah, okay turn it the other way now A lot keep going keep going Yeah Keep going man, keep going All right, hopefully this is turning the right way when I turn to the right that should turn Dude move move. Don't grab that while it's going. Yep, right direction. Good. I connected the uh Connected the strings correctly. I love this. Oh man. All right, so So this car can't get back up. No, no, don't grab everything you need to get your fingers pinched so this connects to this blue thing which moves from a string That's connected there to the frame then comes through this pulley And then goes through a pulley there through a pulley there Up to a pulley there and across and wraps around this so that when When the steering wheel Turns that string which goes up and turns this goofy looking Pully it rotates this entire steering column, right? And that turns this Which also goes down to the other side with the exact same thing down to there Over to there to there and then back connected And I gotta say this is this is my favorite steering I've ever had on a boat Oh, I love it So I'm thinking one person can sit here pedal or sit there both people can reach the steering wheel And uh, even you and one of my favorite things about this is that It turns so many times You know when I originally designed this I wanted to be able to to do that Yeah, I've just been like half a dozen times around To get it to go all the way one way or the other because it seems like a piratey thing to be able to do Hard to starboard. Yeah, that's starboard. Oh, I actually got it right hard to port Oh, I love this thing. Oh, it's a best steering wheel ever You want to do some steering? Make sure you keep your fingers out of there. Yeah, you can do some steering So now that I have pedals Pedals and I'm steering so I can actually move this boat. I could drive it somewhere right now Well, we can't actually go anywhere. We're tied up to the lens I also don't have a chair We don't have much we only have like this much space we can move because we're tired Well, let's go make dinner