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Got to test a motor today in freshwater and salt due to having a freshwater aquarium and a reef tank. My most important project is getting the end flanges cast everything else is just waiting for stuff to come in the mail. I have a pretty good idea on how I’m going to waterproof the through hulls. B...

Added a few layers of Carbon fiber to body tube to stiffen it up more also covered the foam in epoxy the first coat of water proofing. I need to order more stuff I didn’t realize that I was almost out of quite a few lay up items so It may be a week or more before I can get around to ordering more in...

Not bad for 5 days of work.

Worked on a couple of different parts for scout today. I CAD’ed up a flange that I tired to CNC out of MDF (particle board) so I could ram up a sand cast and pour a aluminum one but I need to re do the CAM for it the feeds and speeds were way to high. So I moved on to another couple of projects, I s...

1. They are 240's 7.62, Tremors is a great movie! 2.I’m pretty sure its just extruded foam, I did have some concerns with it imploding on itself or being crushed so I’m going to coat it in epoxy to give it a layer of water proofing then a few 1 Oz coats of of glass cloth and then a final sheet of Ca...

Not much planed for today. I practiced cutting out a PCB board for power distribution. 5 out of six thrusters printed the last one is on the printer now. I may do a little CAD work today for the electronics tray. But I’m waiting for my largest printer to get done so I can print the rail system. I’m ...

Update for today: After struggling for a couple of hours I figured out my CAM processor sometimes makes the right Gcode for my CNC controller. I am still learning how to run CNC machines, I own 3, one I completely updated the electronics from the 90’s and got it running 100% this week. The aluminum ...

Current work for today is to get main aluminum plate that everything mounts to machined. In the mean time my 3D printer has been mindlessly running for over 40 hours to print out the thrusters, I should have all 3 of my printers up and running but that's a hassle. The main focus is the aluminum plat...

First CNC of the foam.

I have been into ROV's almost my whole life. About 12ish years ago as a teenager I stumbled across HomebuiltROVs while I was working on a science fair project. I built a ROV out of PVC pipes and bilge pumps I had laying around, using a relay system in candle wax using Cat5 cable to control it while ...