Twin powered carbon Rivercat build

[kfxguy]

Wife has been restricting my shop time during the week lol (says I don't spend enough family time and she's right) so I haven't made much progress. I did wore it up really quick last night and run most of the cooling lines. Bonded the receiver and Calibrated escs. Did a bench test and everything is working properly. I really need a set of collets now. My pinion adaptor sleeves I had in the collets allow too much runout and I'm not doing that. Vibrates too much too. Not good. If anyone has any ideas where to get some 1/8 to .187 collets from let me know. Right now the plan is I ordered a set of octura 1/8 to 4mm that I was going to drill in my lathe .030 bigger.








What can I put up front? It looks so empty! Lol

[dmitry100]

You should throw in 2 of these >> http://www.rc-raceboats.de/shop/lng/...basic-xxl.html

[kfxguy]

You should throw in 2 of these >> http://www.rc-raceboats.de/shop/lng/...basic-xxl.html

Yea I have no idea how this boat is even going to run so I hate to spend that much money on it. Im probably going to buy a set of tp motors if I can't find collets. I could make my own but at this point time is money and I don't have the time, I'd rather buy them or buy new motors to save time. No to mention I don't have ac in the shop that my lathe is in and it's been in the high 90's here lately. Yea, I'd rather buy new motors lol.

[kfxguy]

O well. I ordered a pair of tp 3640 motors and had them 2 day shipped. Don't like waiting and I don't like rigging something up that needs to be perfectly centered.

[dmitry100]

Btw, any ideas where I can buy a double sided carbon fiber servo horn? I'm sure I seen you use some in the past... but This is the closest thing I found >> http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...2pcs_bag_.html
Just not sure how I would mount it. I think it'd make things look nice...

[readyfireaim]

What KV are those 3640?

[kfxguy]

What KV are those 3640?

2540kv I'll be running 3s for sport and 4s for speed. I'm not dead set on these, I may get a set of neu 1415's if the boat runs good

[kfxguy]

Btw, any ideas where I can buy a double sided carbon fiber servo horn? I'm sure I seen you use some in the past... but This is the closest thing I found >> http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...2pcs_bag_.html
Just not sure how I would mount it. I think it'd make things look nice...

You screw it to a round servo horn.

[dmitry100]

Have you considered maybe running some Wolt's wire drives for this? I think it would work perfect since you have fixed angle drives..

[kfxguy]

Have you considered maybe running some Wolt's wire drives for this? I think it would work perfect since you have fixed angle drives..

I have too much of an angle.

[readyfireaim]

Are you gonna be able to get her in the water this weekend?

[kfxguy]

Are you gonna be able to get her in the water this weekend?

Not unless my collets make it here. I paid for two day shipping from tp and bought them in the morning but for some reason they shipped yesterday instead of Thursday.

[dmitry100]

Yea. TP has a bit of a shipping delay. Maybe I'm just spoiled by Amazon's same day processing + 2 day free shipping.

[kfxguy]

Yea. TP has a bit of a shipping delay. Maybe I'm just spoiled by Amazon's same day processing + 2 day free shipping.

Yea. I left them a note in the note section. They apologized and said it won't be here till Monday. Collets didn't come either. On a positive note my replacement screen for my iPhone 6 I shattered the other day, showed up and some really nice battery straps I'm trying out showed up too.

[dmitry100]

I really don't like velcro straps... mostly because they almost always tear in a flip, etc.
Unless you're using some sort of industrial velcro. But you can also stick some of this on the bottom of the batteries so that they don't move around:
http://www.amazon.com/VELCRO-Industr...cro+heavy+duty
http://www.amazon.com/VELCRO-Industr...trial+strength

You can prob use the Extreme one w/o straps (sticking them on the batteries) and it would prob hold just fine since its super strong.

Regular velcro tears off really easily... so I bought myself some reusable/releaseable cable ties: http://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-1058...usable+12+inch

BTW ... What are you using for the weather seal on your hatches? You mentioned it somewhere just don't remember where...