My Revolt 30 - "Bold Skull"

[gyrotron]

Cricket Creek Forest Preserve just outside of Chicago you have to get a license and be a member of IMPBA or NAMBA. I belong to the Badgers Club in WI also great bunch of people.

For some reason I thought you were in the FL area I did not pay attention to your location tag. I am not affiliated to any club yet, I just boat on a pond close by my house.

[gyrotron]

That would be nice I have to drive min 20 miles to run or to WI 65 miles.

Wow 65 miles that is a trip. I like to drive but I am lucky I have this pond a couple of blocks away; you can walk around it w/o obstacles and it even has parking accross the street. I'll take a picture and post it after today's run.

Came back from today's run. Here are some pics of the pond near my house where I go boating.

[Norman2]

Hi, Gyrotron, Beware,even if you use loctite on the Bullet nut the heat from the flex shaft in the strut bushing will let the bullet nut loose and it will come off sooner or later. Do yourself
a favor. Install the normal lock nut then the bullet nut in back of it. Regards
Norman2

[gyrotron]

Hi, Gyrotron, Beware,even if you use loctite on the Bullet nut the heat from the flex shaft in the strut bushing will let the bullet nut loose and it will come off sooner or later. Do yourself
a favor. Install the normal lock nut then the bullet nut in back of it. Regards
Norman2

Yes, I have been reading not so good experiences with a bullet nut lately. I will go ahead and install a jam nut after the prop and then the bullet nut with loctite. Thanks for the advise .

[gyrotron]

Meanwhile I gave some positive (up 2mm from stock setting) to the prop strut looking to rise the bow a little and try to gain some more speed. Trim tabs at 0 degrees now. I had the chine walk dialed down to a minimum when I started this thread, lets see how it behaves with the new strut setting...

The new strut setting (+2 mm) acted negatively on the Brass Tube and Bushing. After the 5th round I started to hear a diferent motor noise and decided to stop the boat to give it a look inside. Great idea at the exact time; the brass tube was loose and bent at the section where it curbs up it had moved forward towards the collet, the teflon liner kind of started to melt, the epoxy holding the tube against the transom started to crack... it was a really bad accident starting to happen . I need some help here folks since I have never replaced a brass tube and or applied epoxy before, let me know what I need to do and how do I remove and clean up de existing epoxy to make the fix.

Do you guys think the Revolt needs an adjustable stuffing tube bracket? it is a fully adjustable bracket for 1/4 brass tube. It has adjustable height, angle and if installed with spacer washers can be adjusted side ways also. I found this piece at Kintec racing and it is used for the Motley Crew.

hhttp://kintecracing.com/Motley_Crew.html

[gyrotron]

Boat is temporarily out of the water for repairs... will probably have it ready for next weekend.

[dshuld]

Where in fl are you? Im in pinellas county.

[gyrotron]

Where in fl are you? Im in pinellas county.

Hillsborough County. Where do you boat?

[dshuld]

No where yet. Still working on my sv restoration. Taking my time on it as its my first gut and redo. The revolt is still waiting on the backer and for me to go over evrything with loctite. After reading on here for a long time finally decided to try boats. Have friend thats been trying to get me to run them at maximo park in St. Pete but its salt water.

[gyrotron]

No where yet. Still working on my sv restoration. Taking my time on it as its my first gut and redo. The revolt is still waiting on the backer and for me to go over evrything with loctite. After reading on here for a long time finally decided to try boats. Have friend thats been trying to get me to run them at maximo park in St. Pete but its salt water.

I had never heard of Maximo Park before, I just saw some pics online and it looks an interesting place for boating in salt water. Personally, I am not ready yet to run my Revolt on salt water but let us know if you do.

[dshuld]

I do t really want to either. Theres a small pond a few blocks from my apartment in gulfport on 58th st. But i havent seen anyone put a boat in so im not sure if anyone would say anything to me or not.

[gyrotron]

I do t really want to either. Theres a small pond a few blocks from my apartment in gulfport on 58th st. But i havent seen anyone put a boat in so im not sure if anyone would say anything to me or not.

I went thru that predicament too before I started boating on the pond near my house and one day I just did. I figure there is always someone that will say something but until that day I'll keep enjoying it

[gyrotron]

Hello Gang,

My Revolt is back on the water and running better than ever. I am pleased with AQ fix to the stuffing tube getting loose; not pretty but it does not move now. Here is the pic of the fix:

[gyrotron]

Crowd goes wild!!!

Glad your back up and having fun.

Mike

Yes Mike, I am having a ball with this boat! Acouple of things I did lately:

• Diverted the water intake coming from the rudder pick up to the motor cooling jacket and the Esc separately.
• Added a water outlet to port of the boat and a transom fitting. The transom fitting has a dual function; it serves as a water outlet for the ESC and as a water intake for cleaning the served water out of the cooling system with my mini hose.
• Replaced stock Dean connectors with EC5 (Deans melted yesterday and boat almost cought fire)
  
  Currently Testing Octura X440 /3

This boat definetly grows on you.

[Nrallen1]

With my strut pushed up carefully about 2mm, upgraded flex shaft and an M545 my silver Revolt is driving on the prop almost exclusively in the straights. I had to drop the fins and straighten them out or the once stable thoroughbred, wanted to slap on its side violently in the turn! Now it is still decelerating into the turn but WOT just at the crest and blasts out into the straight. My favorite boat.