Hey, Troy good to see your still keeping busy. Back in the UK, I used to race tunnel hills with the outboards you show in the mercury livery, they were hand made in the UK by an old fellow who cast each lower section (by hand) using glassfibre resin and the flex drive (think speedo cable inner, but 0.5 inch diameter) ran in brass tubes cast in the resin. The week point was the flex drive, pop the clutch on a OS61 (10cc I.c engine) driving a 2" diameter 3.2" pitch prop and the flex was instantly 2 parts..fun days..
Hey, I still have some 46" Deep V hulls with weedeater motors running the flex shaft drive setup like your talking about in my collection. Flex drive is less friction so it is much faster but is not as strong as a gear drive setup. The white hull on the sofa with the outboard leaning on the transom was a backup hull I never had to use. Later on, I may create another large outboard with a working forward and reverse selector. It is amazing what can be done with a 3D printer now days and for some things (like a display model) it is the perfect option if you can design parts in 3D.
Sure Thing! Thanks for your comment. The motor printed nicely. I designed the drive line for it and it works very well. In fact I went to tip the designer but it has not been setup.
The motors are completed and still laying on their sides in a glass case. At some point I plan to build a clock and link them to it so they will start and run on the hour for about 20 seconds and on the half hour for about 10 seconds.
Thanks for the cool videos! I recently bought a couple of K&Os. I remember one from the early 70s. They are pricey but quality for a toy. I am on here looking for a Merc hood for an FE G30 tunnel hull build. Any suggestions on a pre-made one? Nice job!
This motors is giving me some very good ideas for an kayak motor! How would I be able to get the a modified file to download this ingenious motor ? Whit just a little increase of the size.
You would have to use metal gears and bearings if you are going to put any kind of load on the motor. You might be better off to make the motor frame from Billet Aluminum. Search Outboard motor on thingiverse.com and you will find a few. Re-size before you slice.
What did you print it with. The gears won't last 20 seconds under a load on 4 cells. Be sure to update with your results. Do you have a video of your project?
@@supertroyofssf I got 4mm 90 degree steel gears, 100mm stainless shafts, 40mm 1.4 pitch metal prop, dog drive and stop collars from ebay. im building a hotshot tunnel cat like you pictured. No one likes slide shows on youtube and I don't really video cuz I think I sound stupid 😐🙂
Nice work!
Hey, Troy good to see your still keeping busy. Back in the UK, I used to race tunnel hills with the outboards you show in the mercury livery, they were hand made in the UK by an old fellow who cast each lower section (by hand) using glassfibre resin and the flex drive (think speedo cable inner, but 0.5 inch diameter) ran in brass tubes cast in the resin. The week point was the flex drive, pop the clutch on a OS61 (10cc I.c engine) driving a 2" diameter 3.2" pitch prop and the flex was instantly 2 parts..fun days..
Hey, I still have some 46" Deep V hulls with weedeater motors running the flex shaft drive setup like your talking about in my collection. Flex drive is less friction so it is much faster but is not as strong as a gear drive setup. The white hull on the sofa with the outboard leaning on the transom was a backup hull I never had to use.
Later on, I may create another large outboard with a working forward and reverse selector. It is amazing what can be done with a 3D printer now days and for some things (like a display model) it is the perfect option if you can design parts in 3D.
Nice!
I'm sure the designer will certainly appreciate it if given a simple thank you / acknowledgement.
Sure Thing! Thanks for your comment. The motor printed nicely. I designed the drive line for it and it works very well. In fact I went to tip the designer but it has not been setup.
@@supertroyofssf 😄
Impressive!
im thinking to makeduo blade
Very nice, any update?, thanks for sharing.
The motors are completed and still laying on their sides in a glass case. At some point I plan to build a clock and link them to it so they will start and run on the hour for about 20 seconds and on the half hour for about 10 seconds.
Thanks for the cool videos! I recently bought a couple of K&Os. I remember one from the early 70s. They are pricey but quality for a toy. I am on here looking for a Merc hood for an FE G30 tunnel hull build. Any suggestions on a pre-made one? Nice job!
No clue really. Good luck on the build.
Fun stuff for sure.
This motors is giving me some very good ideas for an kayak motor!
How would I be able to get the a modified file to download this ingenious motor ? Whit just a little increase of the size.
You would have to use metal gears and bearings if you are going to put any kind of load on the motor. You might be better off to make the motor frame from Billet Aluminum.
Search Outboard motor on thingiverse.com and you will find a few. Re-size before you slice.
Any chance you would share the scaled up version you have? The files i have are for a motor about 8in in height.
Just scale the files to the size you want before you slice them. If you need more help let me know.
I just printed this
Bought all the hardware from ebay
I only have to pocket for one bearing
Trying for 4cell lipo horsepower
What did you print it with. The gears won't last 20 seconds under a load on 4 cells. Be sure to update with your results. Do you have a video of your project?
@@supertroyofssf I got 4mm 90 degree steel gears, 100mm stainless shafts, 40mm 1.4 pitch metal prop, dog drive and stop collars from ebay. im building a hotshot tunnel cat like you pictured. No one likes slide shows on youtube and I don't really video cuz I think I sound stupid 😐🙂
@@nahbruv3621 Just remember a slide show is always better than no show. LOL
I want to buy it from me
hola buenas ideas
I want to buy it from u
What do you plan to do with one?
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Would love to see a video with these motors behind a boat in the water. Any chance you will post a video of that?
They would not last long under a load. They were built as working display engines and for that they are perfect.