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Origami Boat Building – Spreading Her Open
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Origami Boat Building – Spreading Her Open
We're building a 75ft steel motorsailor using the origami building process. In this video we open the hull up to set the beam dimensions, level it, do some check measurements, and talk about what we could have done differently.
DIY Boat Propeller – Part 9 – Machining and Balancing
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DIY Boat Propeller – Part 9 – Machining and Balancing
Done Son! From building a pattern, furnace, melting the aluminum bronze, casting, machining and balancing. ...And we now have 2 sets of custom 37" diameter blades for our Hundested VP3, 3 blade controllable pitch propeller hub. They are worth $15,600 if...
DIY Boat Propeller – Part 8 – Machining the Groove
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DIY Boat Propeller – Part 8 – Machining the Groove
It's asking a lot of our CNC plasma/router table but with help from Super Dave we turned it into a successful CNC lathe so we could mill the grooves in our home make propeller blades that will fit our Hundested Controllable Pitch Propeller system.
Origami Boat Building – Folding the Hull – Part 5
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Origami Boat Building – Folding the Hull – Part 5
Warning: This video contains blood, sex and violence. Younger viewers and people who act like younger viewers should not watch.
Origami Boat Building – Welding Overhead – Wire vs Stick
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Origami Boat Building – Welding Overhead – Wire vs Stick
This is why we have chosen to wire weld our hull, even in the overhead positions. I'm an not telling you it's the best choice for you. I'm showing you why it's the best choice for me. So don't go and get all religious on me if you worship the Stick God....
Origami Boat Building – Folding the Hull – Part 4
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Origami Boat Building – Folding the Hull – Part 4
"And the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh." Or in the words of the Beatles: "One thing I can tell you is you got to be Free. Come together, right now, over me."
Origami Boat Building – Folding the Hull – Part 3
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Origami Boat Building – Folding the Hull – Part 3
Until it starts looking like a boat, you don't really feel like you're working on a boat. Even though we've been working toward this for six years, it finally feels like our journey has begun. -- Kay
Memorial Day – Pausing to Reflect
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Origami Boat Building – Folding the Hull – Part 2
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Origami Boat Building – Folding the Hull – Part 2
With some luck, we'll soon have one boat instead of two halves. :)
Origami Boat Building – Folding the Hull – Part 1
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Origami Boat Building – Folding the Hull – Part 1
It's a great feeling when it starts to look just a little like a boat, and especially when it starts off with very few problems.
Lofting for Origami Boat Building – Take 2
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Lofting for Origami Boat Building – Take 2
If I was better at using a measuring tape I might have avoided 4 days of shuffling75 foot long, 5 ton plates of steel. But the upside is that both sides of the hull are identical so any problems during the bending process can not be blamed on my measuring...
Boat Anchors and Lofting for Origami Boat Building
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Boat Anchors and Lofting for Origami Boat Building
Do you need a 180 pound spade boat anchor when you don't even have a boat? We did. So someday when we finish building our boat an put it in the water; we'll be all set to keep it where we park it.
Origami Boat Building – Welding the Hull Plate
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Origami Boat Building – Welding the Hull Plate
We're building a 74 ft steel sailboat in our front yard. And we're doing it for the best reason there is to build a boat. We want to. So don't tell us "you'll never finish", "your wasting money', we've hear all of the warnings and we do not fear our dr...
Building the Keels – Part 1 – Cutting & Welding 1in Plate
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DIY Boat Propeller – Part 7 – MIG Welding Repair
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DIY Boat Propeller – Part 7 – MIG Welding Repair
You can braze aluminum bronze with MIG. I suck at this but it worked. This started by going to Airgas and asking questions until they got one of their instructors to give me an impromptu class on MIG welding Aluminum Bronze. Give me 1/2" thick material, ...
DIY Boat Propeller – Part 6 – Casting Lessons Learned
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DIY Boat Propeller – Part 6 – Casting Lessons Learned
Six propeller blades are cast and ready for final machining and along the way we learned several lessons and got some great tips for our patterns and sodium silica sand from our local foundries.
Kay’s Garden – Spring in Oklahoma
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Building a Dueling Tree Target
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Building a Dueling Tree Target
How to build your own dueling tree. Works good enough for 9mm but not 38s, and you can shoot anything but armor piercing at AR500. Have fun! http://www.submarineboat.com/about_us.htm
Metal Casting Injury – Warning disturbing images ;)
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DIY Boat Propeller – Part 5 – The Success
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DIY Boat Propeller – Part 5 – The Success
Our second try at casting a propeller blade for our Hundested variable pitch control system was a success but only barely. We had better flask, a following board, and lots of luck. We now know to wax the pattern when using sodium silica sand so next time...
DIY Boat Propeller – Part 4 – The Failure
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DIY Boat Propeller – Part 4 – The Failure
Our first attempt at casting one of our 55 pound propeller blades for our Hundested Controllable Pitch Propeller system went completely into the ditch, but we took away a lot of good information.
Casting a Brass Robot Hand for Aden
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Hundested Rebuild – Part 3 – Pitch Controller Assembly
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Hundested Rebuild – Part 2 – Machining the Distributor Ring
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Hundested Rebuild – Part 2 – Machining the Distributor Ring
If we get this one part right it will save us from buying $3,400 of parts from Hundested. Great to pay for the lathe with the first part!

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