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[Gudmund]

A few weeks ago, I received the Vliestroom kit from Slipways. 


With the "stay at home" warning for seniors, I will have lots of time to work on it, so I thought I would get caught up with some photos.

[Gudmund]

First, I put a plywood deck in the bottom to give me someplace to attach the motors and other components.

[Gudmund]

Then I added the rudder posts.


The instructions suggest a wooden block with some holes to ensure the rudder posts are vertical.  I chose to print a component to do this job.


It seemed to work pretty well.

[Gudmund]

Then I added the drive shafts and positioned the motors.


The korts still need to have the rudders added and I didn't bother using the included rudder arms or plastic tubes, opting instead for some brass tubing and some servo arms that I had laying around. 

[Gudmund]

Now that I am caught up, let me get to what occupied me today - the installation of the bow thruster.


First, I drilled holes in the spots that were indented on the hull.  I put a piece of rod through the holes and determined that they were slightly misaligned. 


I adjusted one of the holes till they were true, both up from the bottom and in relation to the center line of the hull.

[awvs]

Great job by a fellow Canadian.


Wilhelm

[Gudmund]

Then I used a protractor to determine the angle of the hull in relation to the rod that was through the now alignable holes.


I used this value to draw and print an alignment tool (the blue piece in the third photo) that allowed me to trace the shape of hole that would need to be cut in the hull for the thruster's tubes to fit through. 


While the shape of the hole looked a little weird initially, I trusted the geometry of the printed piece and got on with drilling out the hull.


It actually worked quite well. 

[Gudmund]

Today I spent some time working on the support structure for the deck.


It took me four tries to perfect the styrene bending process.  While the instructions suggest cutting part way through the strips where the bends are the sharpest, I found that I could control the bend much better by simply heating the strips with a heat gun and then shaping them in situ.  Some sanding and scraping will get them looking better.


I like the way the magnets and the steel plate work in building plastic structures, though I may need to acquire more of them as waiting for the glue to set is non-productive time.


It was a good day.

[Tafelspitz]

Then I used a protractor to determine the angle of the hull in relation to the rod that was through the now alignable holes.
I used this value to draw and print an alignment tool (the blue piece in the third photo) that allowed me to trace the shape of hole that would need to be cut in the hull for the thruster's tubes to fit through. 

Absolutely brilliant! This definitely goes into my "good ideas for future projects-book".May I ask what CAD program you are using for the 3D parts?Dom

[Gudmund]

Dom,


I used Fusion 360 by Autodesk.


Gudmund

[Taranis]

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[ballastanksian]

She is already looking good. I like the jigs you have made for aligning the moving parts 

[Dreadnought]

Looks Good!