ML Boatworks SX-400 Build 1

[JRS Innovations]

Hello All

Here is my build on the ML Boatworks SX400.

First of all this is one beautiful , well designed kit.
It was awesome to build.
The stuff here is the after market stuff I came up with to make the build
go even easier.

Please see photos below.

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Sponson Finished.

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Motor Mount Parts Cut on CNC.
I designed the mount so as to be able to change two parts to insert different
motors with different can sizes and bolt patterns.

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Motor Mount CA glued into Place.

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Drill Template for mounting Hardware.

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G-10 Hardware Back-Up plate.
1/8" thick W/ Tapped holes.

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ML Boatworks SX-400 Build 2

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Stuffing Tube Guide glued into place.
Paper template for proper hull cutting to accept brass tube.

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G-1 back up plate in position.

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Brass tube through hull with cnc angle wood filler.

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Brass tubes through hull ready for gluing.

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Taped of bottom and used micro Balloons mixed with epoxy to fill.

More to come.

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ML Boatworks SX-400 Build 3

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Motor Installed.

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Servo Installed.

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JRS Innovations Custom SX-400 Boat Stand.

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JRS Innovations Custom SX-400 Boat Stand.

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Hardware Complete.

More to come....

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ML Boatworks SX-400 Build 4

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Hardware View

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Shaft in Place

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Custom Hybrid ESC View 1

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View 2

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View 3

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ML Boatworks SX-400 Build 5

LAST POST

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ESC in proposed location

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ESC in proposed location 2

Hope you all enjoyed the build Ideas.
Will post how the boat runs after this coming weekend when
I give it it's first test.

Thanks
Joe

[darryl whitman]

ok this is cool , where did you get the motor mount and the brass tube brace , this is the system I'm lookin for , plz email me @ j262308@yahoo.com ok sorry ,I c you made them, r u going to sell these mounts ? I hope so.

[Fella1340]

Looking good, what kind of esc and what has been done to them? Wondering the goal behind what you have put together there.

[JRS Innovations]

Thanks to Mike at ML Boatworks who gave me some pointers on how to convert an Airplane/Helicopter ESC from
Castle Creations to a water cooled set-up.

I was wanting to have an option to use more popular ESC from the other segments of the R/C world
since it always seams that R/C Boating is the first to get booted from a company's roster of products.

Oh yeah it is a Phoenix ICE lite 200 amp ESC. I installed the Castle Cap Pack that I got from OSE into
the body of the ESC.

[JRS Innovations]

I will make them, but not until I run the boat and see how everything holds up.
I am pretty sure it will all be good since it is very rigid and strong but ya never know.

[Fella1340]

What's going on here? Have you started 5 build threads for one boat? Common sense says you must be building 5 boats but it reads like you have started 5 build threads for one boat build? Please help me understand what your doing.

[cybercrxt]

That motor mount, and transom mount are the cats meow! Very nice work Joe!

[Fella1340]

You should request all five build posts of the same boat be merged into one. If everybody did this it would make for impossible reading. Plus it's not....cool

[ray schrauwen]

I'll second that. Please ask mods to create one thread.

BTW, what motor is that??