Re: homemade outboard

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Posted by machnumber2 on March 26, 2003 at 00:03:47

In Reply to: Re: homemade outboard posted by KenOhki on March 24, 2003 at 01:02:44:

Finally got some time to spend on the project but accomplished little other than learning some stuff. After I put the bearing bolts in place with the longer bolts(got to warn you, not a pretty site hehe), the lower T and pipe houseing would not align properly (probably because I did not drill the holes properly alinged-its harder than it looks). Finally I took out my rotozip cutting cool and cut out some of the upper portion of the pipe and an access hole in the lower portion of the T to allow the lower shaft assembly more room to move. The assembly alinged barely ok after that, not nearly as clean as I hoped it would be. I assembled the outboard and started it up and it ran ok without too much belt interference or vibration. But I am overall disapointed with it, its just not as clean and simple as I wanted, I am having to "Macyver" everything now and it is making the project too custom and complicated. My goal was a simple assemly that could be easily replicated again. Starting to lean towards your plywood/figergalss idea but not quite ready to abandon this idea yet. Anyways.. Will have to patch that bottom access hole and upper cut, I think fiberglass might work for that, where do you get that stuff by the way? I have never worked with fiberglass but know of it and the way I envision it is that you lay some type of fabric then paint the fiberglass glue on top? Lol on the adatchments, that is a perfect term for what is gong on here.
I hope that your friend goes ahead with his project and cant wait to see the photos and progress. Update photos below.
http://machnumber2.50megs.com/photos/outboard2/photos/outboard.html

http://machnumber2.50megs.com/photos/outboard2/photos/outboard.html (Open in New Window)

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Topic - homemade outboard - machnumber2 19:20:57 03/07/03 (29)

Re: homemade outboard - KenOhki 20:10:33 03/07/03 (27)

Re: homemade outboard - machnumber2 22:22:05 03/07/03 (26)

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Re: homemade outboard - Machnumber2 22:37:51 03/14/03 (14)

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Re: homemade outboard - KenOhki 21:50:37 03/27/03 (0)

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