Start to Finish: Building Our 50' Skater

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08-28-2019, 10:55 AM

#1821

midwest272

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Any chance of building flanges and clamping the pipes together ?

Seems like thin wall to butt weld in that environment

Great to see it back on the water

10-25-2019, 04:13 PM

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I finally got the crossover pipe between the compounded turbos welded up and heat wrapped.

installing it tonight and going to test the boat tomorrow at Grand Lake if it quits raining.

10-25-2019, 05:25 PM

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Test it at LOTO, I’ll be bored after the game in the morning ong.

10-25-2019, 06:09 PM

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Yep, it’s wintertime.
Time to start testing again. 😎

10-25-2019, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by PigNaPoke

Unreal you had that many welds on a brand new rig that were faulty.... keep at it eventually the whole bilge will just be filler rod ��

Hope this is meant to be in good fun coming from a guy in a CC

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10-26-2019, 10:02 PM

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I need to put the thermostats back in because the engines take forever to warm up in cold water and will not build boost to get on plane. Finally got on plane and ran around for a little while. Came back in running on both. I had switched the drives to inboard rotation to see what that would do and it does not work. It started proposing at around 70 instead of 90 but the big props did lower the rpm.

10-26-2019, 10:11 PM

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the props would not clear the #8 so I had to put them in the lathe and take 1/4” off the tips.

10-26-2019, 10:16 PM

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now there’s a good 32nd of an inch of clearance. If it flexes it will just be like an 18” diameter endmill making its own clearance.

10-27-2019, 01:00 AM

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Hope this is meant to be in good fun coming from a guy in a CC

Oh you got me. lol. Wasnt a bash on Tyson at all, I just find it sad he has paid alot of money and spent alot of time on something he is passionate about, and it seems like he is always cleaning up someone else's shoddy work...(welds that didnt penetrate). Really no excuse for this IMO.

What kind of fire breathing boat do you have ?