Lolcow Doug Jackson / SV Seeker - Boomer hubris personified, an incompetent lunatic's dreams slowly crumbling to dust because of his own poor decisions.

[DarthMower]

If only he had been warned about using a variable pitch system that he had to remanufacture precision parts for using eyeball and chalk measurements would be unreliable.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Doug has broken another piece of his drive train.

I think you mean the same piece for the third or fourth time. I've lost track.

Using an old bus transmission and a fiddly variable pitch prop arrangement takes a special kind of genius. I

Not just any bus transmission; the worst possible bus transmission. The variable pitch controller would probably work fine if Doug hadn't machined his own parts without drawings instead of spending money.

 

[2lolis1cup]

I think you mean the same piece for the third or fourth time. I've lost track.

Not just any bus transmission; the worst possible bus transmission. The variable pitch controller would probably work fine if Doug hadn't machined his own parts without drawings instead of spending money.

I remember Doug's great practice of hammer and mallet to seat the main bearings. Then when it broke for the 2nd or 3rd time he added a "coolant" system to keep it lubricated.




bonus image of a perfectly acceptable angle of a drive train CV axle.

https://archive.is/VAeU4