next it was time to waterproof the shafts so i took them back out i had them installed before but i took them back out and started squirting petroleum jelly over everything a lot of people will probably say they should be using boat grease but it's like it's the same thing just petroleum jelly works fine it worked really well on the hss banana slug so i'm using it again and you push that into the the shaft sleeve make sure petroleum jelly is everywhere put the prop on some more loctite this is red loctite but it's not actually red loctite it's like some other brand it's not super permanent so don't worry then i push those back into the hole with more petroleum jelly make sure it gets everywhere and one interesting thing is that these shafts are they're twisted right they're flexible shafts and they give you counter rotating shafts like one is twisted one way and one is twisted the other way so the strat is to use these as like screws to push water out of the tube you know like you don't want to pull water through the tube so you put them on to the respective sides whereas when the propeller is turning forwards they will be almost like pumping water backwards out through the shaft so that's kind of interesting and then i conformal coated some of the electronics like the gps and the pix hawk NUMBER_TOKEN that you see here i'm using two bl heli NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN amp escs with bi-directional mode turned on i waterproofed some of the wood with poly acrylic um it says it's water-based so i was a bit skeptical of this at first but it seems pretty waterproof so that should seal the wood pretty well this boat runs on six life poNUMBER_TOKEN batteries from rely on these are NUMBER_TOKEN amp hour packs so the boat has NUMBER_TOKEN amp hours total which is a lot and both motors and both holes are on the same circuit so i just ran wires through a hole and that's sealed with silicone to the other hole so same number of batteries in each hole i built this little gps pivot mast here that flips it out and gets it out away from the solar panels once they're on and here we are going out for the very first test drive hello friends today i'd like to talk to you about skills now i don't mean mad skills like i have here i mean the kind of skills that pay the bills the kind of skills that you can learn on skillshare skillshare is an online learning community for creatives where millions come together to take the next steps in their creative journey skillshare offers thousands of creative classes from topics like illustrations this isn't really working okay maybe my unicycle skills aren't that great but at least i have skillshare to teach me thousands of other useful skills they have classes on topics including illustration design photography video freelancing and more here's a cool class i found by justin bridges the dslr camera techniques he teaches can help you make videos just like this one it's curated specifically for learning they're always adding new premium classes and there's no ads so you can follow wherever your creativity takes you the first NUMBER_TOKEN of my subscribers to click on the link in the description will get a one month free trial of skillshare so you can start exploring your creativity today now back to the video
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN and here we are going out for the very first test drive hello friends today i'd like to talk to you about skills now i don't mean mad skills like i have here i mean the kind of skills that pay the bills the kind of skills that you can learn on skillshare skillshare is an online learning community for creatives where millions come together to take the next steps in their creative journey skillshare offers thousands of creative classes from topics like illustrations this isn't really working okay maybe my unicycle skills aren't that great but at least i have skillshare to teach me thousands of other useful skills they have classes on topics including illustration design photography video freelancing and more here's a cool class i found by justin bridges the dslr camera techniques he teaches can help you make videos just like this one it's curated specifically for learning they're always adding new premium classes and there's no ads so you can follow wherever your creativity takes you the first NUMBER_TOKEN of my subscribers to click on the link in the description will get a one month free trial of skillshare so you can start exploring your creativity today now back to the video END_SPONSOR_TOKEN