I bought this Abu Garcia fishing reel at a yardsale for like three bucks. When I got it, it was kinda dirty and it had some issues with it. It would go into cast mode okay, but when I spun the reel it wouldn’t kick back into reel mode. The reel handles just spun freely. […]
My RC boat is almost finished! I got the rudder installed and I just finished installing the stuffing tube, shaft, and motor. I now just have to get a battery to use and then I’ll try ‘er out! To mount the stuffing tube to the boat I drilled two holes in the center of the […]
Time to build a rudder for the boat. I made the rudder out of some brass sheet I got at the hardware store. To start I took my brass sheet and I drew on it the dimensions of the rudder. I made the rudder 1-1/4″ wide at the top and 1″ at the bottom. The […]
So I already have a boat prop, but now it’s time to build a boat for it. My plan is to build a very basic boat I can use in my pool. I will use a cheap toy boat from Wal-Mart as the hull, a DC motor that I saved from my destroyed RC helicopter, […]