That's some nice work Shawn. The paint job is so simple, clean of clutter and yet so elegant especially with the stripe combo with the fine little details in it. . . .just love it. . . .very nice indeed. I can't wait to see it zip on the water.
That's some nice work Shawn. The paint job is so simple, clean of clutter and yet so elegant especially with the stripe combo with the fine little details in it. . . .just love it. . . .very nice indeed. I can't wait to see it zip on the water.
Thanks guys, it’s so nice to get it this far and have it turn out ‘by my own hand’.
Thanks for the praise,
You really banged this one out quickly, without cutting corners. Your experience shows. It must be exciting to know its going to hit the water soon!
And I agree with Brian, your layout of the graphics is dead nuts on. Clean and simple.
It’s a great build Shawn! That thing is going to look and sound so good out on the water, I can hear it now!
Yes, yes it shall! So happy to be at this point already. So the LMT’s are in and while there I thought I’d share the tricks that make install and removal easy on me. Perhaps you guys can put it to use.
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I fashioned a hex bit onto a .130 flex which goes into my tool kit nut driver. After much futzing and dropping of screws I came up with the loop in the brass wire which gets used as a guide for the screw/hex. Works like a charm!
Cool tool.
I have ESC’s wired, programmed and installed. ESC cover plates installed. Added a foam bed on sponson floor by ESC’s for batteries to sit on.
Servo, hydraulics, and cables and cable clamps(courtesy of Kent @cfparts) installed. I had changed servos as I decided to run HV radio system in this one. I’m just going to try it out and see if range increases, hasn’t been a problem but I do know my limitations on the lake.
I am working on the wiring for the Rx and data tower but figured I’d show off what takes the place of the logger and still holds the Rx battery.
And it’s alive!!! Swordy’s seem to be sync’d up well. But one doesn’t wanna beep a cell count. I’ll reprogram and see.
I'll just leave this here... I don't think I would ever be able to unscrew anything without this flexable screwdriver: https://www.amazon.com/ORIA-Screwdri...ewdriver&psc=1
So on the ‘last finishing touches’ front, I am so impressed with myself on this one.
On these 115’s the hatch fits loose, real loose! So after measuring I decided that a great option would be foam tape stuck to the outside edge of the hatch. So after much searching I found a single roll of 1/16” sticky one side tape on eBay. I installed this morning and now the hatch fits nice and snug. This should be my seal
Wow, you weren't kidding. That looks like a hood gap on a car! Looks like that tape was a perfect fit.
Did you use any extra adhesive for the foam? I'd imagine it would eventually start coming off after getting wet several times
Hey Shawn, great looking build! Super clean! Can't wait to see some vids of it on the water. Also Thanks for sharing a few of your tricks
Hey thank you. She should be soon on the water. I just have to install flexes,( like really, I have them glued together and sized), my Andy Browns (447’s) are here and maybe a good once over. Charge packs and go. Oh yeah, I NEED A DECENT DAY!!! Lol
You going to be running 1/4 or 3/16 flex cables on that thing?
Made it out briefly the other day. It was a beautiful day. All ran well, slipped a collet, and I think I need to teardrop the water inlets a bit. Ran a beater set of 447’s for the inaugural. I am still getting used to these dihedral hulls and there are a lot of buoys on this waterski lake. I’ll try to get more open water next time out
That's looking awesome...
Well done bud.
Did the tip of the flex cable get damaged at all or did you catch it early enough?
One of the best investments that I made is those cheap blowtorch attachments for small gas bottles that sell for around $10.00 on eBay. They are commonly used by chefs in kitchens for caramelising cooking but have a wide usage in our hobby from heating up tips of cut flexshafts hot enough to accept solder plus heating brass tubing to firstly bend stuffing tubes then reheating to heat treat them once formed. Another usage that my son showed me was heating say a prop that had been Loctited inplace allowing easy removal.
any more video? how fast?
Shawn, does your gps get signal if you place it under your stock HPR hatch?
For some reason mine doesn’t... I haven’t tried placing it inside of the deep oval portion of the hatch yet , just next to ESC
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