The Freakiest -7" Build You Ever Done Seen.
- Thread starter BrightE's
- Start date
Don't ya love the 21st century! Keep up the good work man!
- Location
- South Florida
Now you see why I put so much value on my time and effort for assembly. Lol.
CD155MX
Squirrel!!!
- Location
- Alta Loma, CA
Seems like that could make or break a Freak build.
Ducky
Back in the game!
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
Holy cow! Nice work on the 3d printing!!!!
BrightE's
Paul
- Location
- Seattle, WA
haha yea dude, NOW i understand. It's been blood, sweat, and tears over here, lol. All well worth it in the end though I'm sure. It's going to make me love this boat like it's my own child, I can already tell.
Here here, Don! BTW people, Don has been the guiding light on this build. Three cheers to him!
I really want to compliment the brand with this build! I know Tem and team builds them with love and care, so I'm obligated to do the same.
- Location
- Jackson MI
I love our 3d printer
BrightE's
Paul
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Yeah they're versatile little machines aren't they. We've got a couple kicking around at work, and with the expiring material, what else are we going to print but jet ski parts!?
- Location
- Pueblo, CO
Maybe I missed something, but is that plastic pipe just for a trial fit? (I hope so) Now you've got a nice Carbon 3-D elbow... I hope it will be mated to a carbon tube????
Please don't use plastic in that hull. If it gets too hot and melts, you will be tearing back into it. A guy here had a plastic exh. tube in his hull and it melted partially closed. He went thru 2 engines, trying to figure out why his ski ran like poop.
Please don't use plastic in that hull. If it gets too hot and melts, you will be tearing back into it. A guy here had a plastic exh. tube in his hull and it melted partially closed. He went thru 2 engines, trying to figure out why his ski ran like poop.
- Location
- Jackson MI
Plastic tube wrapped in carbon then he pressure washed the plastic out. I believe it all will be carbon.
BrightE's
Paul
- Location
- Seattle, WA
McRider's got it. But which plastic pipe? The black one in those pictures is my drain pipe - ABS Foam Core DMW. But there won't be any plastic in the exhaust. The carbon elbow is mating up to the carbon exhaust pipe Tem made for me. The print material is actually more like a hardened powder, so it was easy to just blast out with water.
BrightE's
Paul
- Location
- Seattle, WA
It was all I had. It's about 0.125" in wall-thickness. I didn't have any bagging material or a vacuum pump so it's probably a bit heavier than it needs to be.
- Location
- Pueblo, CO
My bad, I was looking at it wrong. Carry on
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cool i have had to repair 2 carbon exh tubes one in a freek and one in a KDX booth melted/thinned out and was flaking away where the rubber hose clamps on.
Nice build by the way, you git to do it the way you wont it done.
BrightE's
Paul
- Location
- Seattle, WA
That's it! It's like going to McDonalds - have it my way. That's interesting that the exhaust tubes are doing that. The tube Tem sent with my ski is lined with gelcoat it looks like on the inside - it might be an epoxy finish though. I know they're doing autoclave or oven cooking on some of their parts, and I think those types of parts are suited better to high temp application. We will have to see if it starts causing a problem - hopefully it wont.
Did the exhaust pipes on that KDX and freak start leaking water under the tray?
no water in tray its like the oil and exhaust just thinned the pipe out, X-metal now uses aluminum tubes and the one that did have probs was
pats personal boat that was sold used.
