I was meaning overall height. Bottom is 3/4" plus 2" for the servo and more for your steering system, I'm guessing 4 " final height of hull?
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oh ok, my bad. Right now on the drawing the inside height is 3.25". So with a 3/4" hull thickness, you are bang on, 4"Originally posted by bwells View Post
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Would it be a possibility to lay the servo on it's side and move the servo linkage to the top of the attachment below EDF and move the linkage between the EDF's to the bottom? That may reduce overall height by maybe 1 1/2 inches. Just a suggestion, I'm not telling you how to build your boat, just thinking maybe a lower profile may be easier to control>Comment
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Ya I see your point. I will come up with a way to mount it right to the main bracket, inverted. That will bring the inside height to about 1.5" instead of 4.Originally posted by bwells View Post
On another note, I finally got to making some of the parts....
Here's the main bracket, still needs holes bored out for the needle bearings.
Here's the mount for the fan shroud. It's colored black so I can transfer holes for the clamping bracket that need to be drilled and tapped.
Here's the mount with the fan shroud on it. The posts in the last pic will be attached at the bottom, and will rotate in the needle bearings.
Here are the needle bearings, the posts that will rotate for the fan steering, and the bushings that will prevent the posts from coming out of the needle bearings. The stuff is made from low friction delrin.
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1. Great work, I want to see it run!
2. what is Delrin??
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Nice, real nice!Comment
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Delrin is fancy pants nylon !!Originally posted by Boaterguy View Post1. Great work, I want to see it run!
2. what is Delrin??
There are many materials that are similar delrin is generally harder than most "nylon" products but they are all of the same generic plastic I believe. It is good stuff !!Last edited by Simon.O.; 05-15-2011, 05:24 AM.See it....find the photos.....sketch it it....build it........with woodComment
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I see, Just another fancy word for a fancy word for plastic, eh?Comment
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yup, just a fance plastic as said above. I like it for 2 reasons...
1) like mentioned above, it's harder than most plastics. I personally like the machineability of it vs plastic, and when you tap it, it will not strip out as easy as plastic would.
2) we have it at work, lol, so it's free. Free is good.Comment
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Do you do themachining at work?Comment
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Sure do. I'm a PLC programmer but I have full access to a machine shop and all the resources that go along with it. I do all the manual maching myself. The shroud mount was cut on CNC, which was programmed by someone else. I have to take some time to learn to program it, then I can get REAL creative, lol.Originally posted by Boaterguy View PostComment
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ever thought about making a service?Comment
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I have done stuff in the past. But the time involved in manual milling really does not justify the cost. There's too much time in design, setup, and the actual cutting to make it worth while.Originally posted by Boaterguy View Post
When I used to own a Tiburon, I designed beautiful 6" custom shorty antennas. Made a few manually which took about 2 hours each. Hardly worth the $35 I was selling them for. The demand took off, so I had a CNC shop run 200 of em. After annodizing, my cost out the door was $7 per unit. In the 2 months it took me to sell them all (still for $35) a chineese shop knocked em off and was selling em for $20. I got in, made my money, and got out just in time.
But back on topic, if you need really simple stuff that won't take much time, I'd be happy to help.Comment
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a full scale reproduction of the 1rst lunar landing module, that shouldn't be too hard.
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