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

2lolis1cup said:
Doug has broken another piece of his drive train.
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I think you mean the same piece for the third or fourth time. I've lost track.
TurboNAS said:
Using an old bus transmission and a fiddly variable pitch prop arrangement takes a special kind of genius. I
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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.
 
1Tonka_Truck said:
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.
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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.
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bonus image of a perfectly acceptable angle of a drive train CV axle.
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In comparison to all this tom foolerly to have an open water vessel, just look at how much you can get out of little houseboats
 
Jesus, this thread reminded me I saw this guy's videos a looong time ago. I think he was welding together the hull at the time. I think it was in a different youtuber's video, I can't remember which. But I just found a video from Abom (another youtuber boomer machinist) where he visits his boat and glazes him, while Doug hits on Abom's wife.
It might have been ChuckE2009, RWG Research, GREENPOWERSCIENCE or a similar youtube channel
yup, it was chucke2009 and steven cox
 
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Doug, ignoring his communications radio, almost ran down some divers in the water. The dive charter boat had to put itself between Seeker and the people in the water. Charter captain posts to the Seeker Facebook page, Doug replies smugly. It all gets deleted by Betsy. Pretty standard, really.

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myhairisonfire said:
Doug, ignoring his communications radio, almost ran down some divers in the water. The dive charter boat had to put itself between Seeker and the people in the water. Charter captain posts to the Seeker Facebook page, Doug replies smugly. It all gets deleted by Betsy. Pretty standard, really.

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>Nearly murders some oldhead Veterans enjoying Florida
>"No child it is YOU who are being disrespectful. Be a good human smh"

Never change
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Doug has been working hard this Holiday season (don't forget it), making sure his "Sea Chest Foundation" keeps sailing. (L) (A)
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This foundation he fronts (L) (A) is bizarre because it uses the royal we to describe "helping the Seeker" when the Seeker is very proudly Doug's sole creation. The two pages dedicated to science (ie its supposed purpose) are still stumps though at least it does have some references to work they have done with others. IDK what the International Seakeepers Society saw/sees in him (the larger/more legit of the two orgs they are supposedly with). Even if the Seeker is doing some good taking on scientists for tours scientific expeditions, there is no way Doug is seriously rebranding his boat the internet built as a scientific vessel, right?
 
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Path Wanderer said:
Doug has been working hard this Holiday season, (don't forget it) making sure his "Sea Chest Foundation" keeps sailing. (L) (A)
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This foundation he fronts (L) (A) is bizarre because it uses the royal we to describe "helping the Seeker" when the Seeker is very proudly Doug's sole creation. The two pages dedicated to science (ie its supposed purpose) are still stumps though at least it does have some references to work they have done with others. IDK what the International Seakeepers Society saw/sees in them (the larger/more legit of the two orgs they are supposedly with). Even if the Seeker is doing some good taking on scientists for tours scientific expeditions, no way Doug is seriously rebranding his boat the internet built as a scientific vessel, right?
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Thank you for keeping up with Doug. I cannot believe his junk isn't at the bottom of the ocean yet.
 
Mussolini’s Merkin said:
Thank you for keeping up with Doug. I cannot believe his junk isn't at the bottom of the ocean yet.
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It's because he hides in the calmer waterways whenever he can to avoid getting fucked over by his hubris and idiocy. I also expect him to pretend to drive it more than he actually does too.
 
Haven't checked in on Doug in a long time, is this thing still running on the bus engine?

Damn I just saw that his channel got deleted. I recall him saying that there was no need to make schematics as he could just lookup his YouTube channel when something broke down at sea and figure out how it was made. Maybe no longer an option.
 
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Dougs most recent project is building a "microplastics collector" out of a stainless steel barrel. One end will be the inlet, the other an outlet to a collector bag. Two counter rotating props in the drum will draw seawater into the bag to speed up collection. These props are hydraulically driven for some reason. Oh, and the hydraulic lines are also the tow lines. AND this is supposed to be operating at 400 ft of depth.


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He's crimping the lines himself. A careful observer will note that there isn't a whole lot of deformation on the crimps, indicating a potentially insufficient job. Good thing Doug has never had problems with creating oil slicks before!

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Ignoring the fact that he's going to be trying to push hydraulic power through 800ft+ of line, that Doug's hydraulic pump is already so anemic it cant lift the anchor, or that there aren't many microplastics at this depth anyway... I present to you this Facebook comment, which is pure, distilled SV Seeker mindset.

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Doug needs a pulley or something help haul in that 800ft of line. So he tries truck wheels, motorcycle wheels and mountain bike wheels. To nobody's surprise, none of them work. After many hours and dollars, Doug decides to buy a pre-made part that is designed to do exactly what he needs. "I wanted to make these out of stainless anyway", he says not having built any of his prototypes out of stainless. What a discovery Doug has made! Cable puller wheels can be used to pull things!
 
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myhairisonfire said:
Dougs most recent project is building a "microplastics collector" out of a stainless steel barrel. One end will be the inlet, the other an outlet to a collector bag. Two counter rotating props in the drum will draw seawater into the bag to speed up collection. These props are hydraulically driven for some reason. Oh, and the hydraulic lines are also the tow lines. AND this is supposed to be operating at 400 ft of depth.


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He's crimping the lines himself. A careful observer will note that there isn't a whole lot of deformation on the crimps, indicating a potentially insufficient job. Good thing Doug has never had problems with creating oil slicks before!

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Ignoring the fact that he's going to be trying to push hydraulic power through 800ft+ of line, that Doug's hydraulic pump is already so anemic it cant lift the anchor, or that there aren't many microplastics at this depth anyway... I present to you this Facebook comment, which is pure, distilled SV Seeker mindset.

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Doug needs a pulley or something help haul in that 800ft of line. So he tries truck wheels, motorcycle wheels and mountain bike wheels. To nobody's surprise, none of them work. After many hours and dollars, Doug decides to buy a pre-made part that is designed to do exactly what he needs. "I wanted to make these out of stainless anyway", he says not having built any of his prototypes out of stainless. What a discovery Doug has made! Cable puller wheels can be used to pull things!
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Ok help me get this straight (because I won't pretend to know to much about boats). Is Doug basically planning to use an open barrel with water jets attached to it and its anchor chain? Apart from it goring fish apart as it plummets to the bottom, won't this set up have the potential to at least wreck up whatever is attaching it to the Seeker if not the entire vessel?
 
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Mikoyan said:
Remember Doug! There's like almost 200 PSI of pressure at that depth! You could uprate that hose to 1750 easy! This is very good advice and will in no way go wrong.
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I didn't know anyone still made hydraulic hose with working pressures below 2200 psi. My local hydraulic shop stopped carrying 1 wire hose and fittings just to cut down on inventory.
 
I did some napkin math and assuming Doug is trying to push 15gpm(which -8 pressure/-12 return lines up nicely with under non-retard conditions), he's going to loose nearly 1000 psi of working pressure in 800' of -8 2 wire and another 225 psi in 800' -12 1 wire return line.

I've just realized 225 psi of back pressure might be enough to blow out shaft seals on whatever temu hydraulic motors Doug bought.
 
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