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Rudders,
Again there is nothing commercially available, so for the tubes I used the same size stainless tubes as the prop shafts.
Brass bushes were turned up on the lathe and held together with Loctite.
The rudders are made out stainless sheet and some more of the 3/16″ shaft silver soldered together.
After a lot of shaping, cleaning and polishing they look like this.
Next bits,
As this a large boat so I will use standard 3/16″ Props, as these a easy to get and come in lots of different sizes and pitches.
The only trouble is they are normally used on fast racing power boats and they tend to use flex shafts.
This makes it very hard to find a solid 3/16″ prop shaft, so the only option is to make them.
I used 5/16″ Stainless tube with a 3/16″ stainless shaft running in some brass bushes that I turned up on the lathe.
Made the support struts out of scrap brass & tube.
The couplings also needed bushes in them for the shafts.
Now all I need to do is fit them in the hull.
Good to hear that the camera survived.
But what happened to the new nice Kermit we had last week? He wouldn’t have said those sort of things about the Moose!
As Kermit was so helpful in showing us less experienced pilots in what NOT to do at the field.
I thought I would cut down my video just into the interesting bits from Kermit, (but it still almost 6 minutes long?)
