kidturbo

That's my engineer in the picture, testing our latest surface drive diesel design...

Currently around 54.5" off transom if I recall. With a +2.5deg jacked angle, if boat ran flat at 60mph, no prop would be in water...

kidturbo

This has turned out to be a real pain in the hatch, but we finally have the glass setting correctly.

After laser cutting multiple cardboard templates to within 3mm edge tolerance, and clearly specifying the glass panels ONLY be waterjet cut for accuracy, all that got lost in translation. Glass was hand cut and ended up being 1/2" out of specs in several spots. Then I learned once tempered, ya can't grind the edges of glass to make it fit. But all that didn't stop the glass shop from installing them incorrectly soon as I left.. I go to pick it up and find the front corners setting higher than the center fiberglass [first pic] right where your gonna step on it every day...

Luckily a fiend of a friend is really good at fixing others install screw ups. Wire cut both panels out, and after little tweaking to the hatch, have both panels sitting pretty flush. All good now, and back to what I was working on before leaning how to be a glass installer.

Twin O/B Sonic

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kidturbo

1/8 in = 0.1250 in = 3.1750 mm
To a CNC machine, that's like a yard. But is wider than your average sharpie I've discovered..

IGetWet

The world would greatly benefit if we’d all adopt the C hair unit of measurement. Very fine unit of measurement. I think issues like this could be avoided. There’s several different sizes- blk C hair, Blnd C hair, brn C hair, and the very rare R C hair.

Definitely one of the coolest projects to follow along with. Keep it up!

Twin O/B Sonic

Baja Rooster

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I have a buddy that is a machinist who had a remodel done on his home. He was upset that the windows were a 1/16" out of level. The whole house was ruined in his eyes, lol.

Fantastic work done here, kidturbo!

kidturbo

Thanks guys.

BR I bet your buddy doesn't have to walk on his house windows either.. Imagine stubbing your toe on a 1/4" high glass corner, [cause obviously be in bare feet] then ya trip and fall on one of those tempered plates.

Yesterday I sent the the shop owner pictures of where the glass measured out of spec by 1/2", along with how much I paid to have them reset. Ask for a couple hundred refund on the CC since the glass obviously wasn't as ordered, but the other guy still made it fit. He basically told me to piss off and don't contact him again. So maybe I'll share his cell # with a couple of these aholes who call me up every day offering 50k in business funding...

Now back to adjusting these digital drive trim indicators to within 0.1deg of each other. JUST BECAUSE I CAN !!

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