I have looked at OSE's tips page and still have another couple questions about stuffing tubes. What is the best way to bend the tube. By that I mean you heat it up and then should you still use pipe bender or just drape it over a large steel pipe until desired ange? Also What keeps the teflon from spinning inside the brass tube?
Bending stuffing tube???
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fill the tube with salt or sugar and you can pretty much bend into any shape you need of course you need to seal the ends so you need to have the tube longer than needed.
Jim"Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone except God.
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hmm, thats a good idea. Im going to try my first bend. THanks for your help. as soon as Im done with boat you wont have to deal with my dumb quest's anymore!LOLComment
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I went down to Harbor Freight and picked up a tubing bender like this one but for smaller sizes. Hasn't failed me yet....
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...temnumber=3755Comment
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Well... I bent both tubes. both bent in a slight S shape and came out nearlyy perfect and matched eachother perfectly. now I just have to cut to length. thanks for all help and I had an alarm clock in the garage with a curved edges and worked great!Comment
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not to take your thunder Mich Maniac...but to whoever knows do i need to bend my brass tube or no for the aqua jet?can i just angle it in or what? i should have just bought a real nice boat for what time and $$ ive done with this...Comment
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IMO, you are always WAYYY happier building your own boat, even if it sucks when you are finished. I found that out right after I bought my SV27. I will never by another RTR for myself. Thats just my opinion and you know everyone has their own. I should add RTR's have their place for sure, I would buy an SV or CEN for my daughter or something or if you have absolutly no time to build or on an extreme budget or something.Last edited by lferguson; 04-13-2007, 12:25 PM.Comment
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I hear ya! Ive never built a boat from scratch. this will be a first for about everything. And like you said if it doesnt handle or is slow at least I can learn for the next project. My next challenge will be assembling flexi shaft. I went to local ball bearing distrib. and got a bottle of the 603 and primer.. was 55.00 HOLY WOW BATMAN!!! Im waiting for them to get hear from OSE and will follow tips steps to the teeComment
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same
I bought a tubing bender from Harbor Freight ($6.99) like LFerguson suggested. It worked great for me. Thanks!!!ReddyWatts fleet photo
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Ok, now for the teflon, alot of advise says not to use teflon. However I thought if I left it in to line up stuffing tubes then I would have great alignment and smooth spinning, but that stuff is hard to get out. if I line the tubes up and glue them in place, then i think ill break them loose getting teflon out? any advise?Comment
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My progress so far. she aint pretty but she'll go to the dance!!!Comment
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Ok, I got my flex cable, strut and motor, I just glued together my right hand cable to a prop shaft and realized the threads on prop shaft are not left hand threads. Wont it work my prop nut loose?Comment
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