all right welcome to sv seeker that's seeker back behind me
we're working in the engine room on this video
let's make something that that way when you take this loose it can support itself how
come this ain't rotating no that's what i want to know that sucker's on there dude
look at that there you go this is don sacks he's back with us and he's giving me a lesson in
how far we've come in a year yeah so we were working on the on the hatches yes bowling and
down cut making the gaskets cutting them around the edge bolting all that stuff yeah we've come
a long way yeah i'm sure it's only been a year well it doesn't feel like it's going that fast
this is a what hey what don hi don nice to meet you i'm a1 we'll see we'll see how this goes
yeah try 19 volts and see how many iron powers i feel like it's in a spa it does it has a nice spa
feeling to it yeah and we have a sauna in here when we fire up all the engines you can pour
a seawater over the manifolds of the engines how does that yeah that work what is it that's
just flex in there it's pressed well shoot let's shorten it up and pull it back well either that
or you just come out with a pipe and go down i didn't realize that was press fit this this will
expand and you'll see yeah yeah yeah i was why not just a pipe oh because uh we want the exhaust
on it when we take the engine out the exhaust is already on there the muffler's on there yeah but
if it's hanging out here is that a problem oh no no no he's going to ride it down and around this
edge and down as long as we have a crawl space back so that's already planned out so what do
you think maybe we just need to get it in off of this this frame quarter inch off and yeah yeah
and then waddle these holes out yeah that's what i was thinking yeah perfect no problem all right
really happy we've made parts like that now somebody commented do you need a ten
thousand dollar machine to make a four dollar part well first off i looked them
up there are 45 dollars on jegs so yeah they're a little more than four but it's a valid point
if you already know how to do cnc machining you're not learning anything if you always have somebody
else readily available to make or a source to buy custom parts from yeah no you don't you know
you're not going to benefit from it but if you're going to learn something from it
uh yeah it's think of it like going to college you're probably going to actually have a skill
when you're done that you'll get a return for your investment on your education so if
it's something you can learn do it you know it's going to be a whole lot cheaper to buy a 10 000
machine than it is to go to college for a year and when you get done with a year of working on
this machine you'll be good at it i mean really good at it i've only played played with it for
a few days and i'm okay with it so i the learning curve is not that bad it just takes an investment
in time and then the other thing is like okay even if you're just gonna make a four dollar part
300 miles east of midway island in the pacific that's not going to be a four dollar
part
that's nice aren't you missing your veterans parade no it's your day man it's too cold
i drove off throughout your air force yeah your eyes too cold that's the gentleman's
air force don't you forget it i know that black and purple in the parade with a guy about this
color one of my best friends and he and i did it four years ago yeah with the top down his cold
yeah fudge it just a little bit
he didn't like that first weld so much so he's putting a cover pass over it
just to be sure you know it's not a nuclear facility right your life does depend on it though
we're getting real close
oh yeah yeah that's gorgeous damn you got it all done today
it's just packed up she pulled out welded it well i know it's just tacked up
still to clean that pipe out with the exhaust slag down there yeah okay i can vacuum that out
i'll find a reason for you he is done with the second exhaust pipe going to the v-max you worried
about something yeah what are you worried about i think we're going to move this back like we've
talked about why we're just going to let the mother's so close
yeah that that's got enough clearance there you're worried about that that's gonna be harder
to love the hail well so it burns some paint off i don't care we can make a shield for that
we can move it back in a little bit more but you can't do it here
can we cut the floor great now have it right about there all right if we need to do it we
can do it but let's not rush into it until we fire this engine up and let it run for a while
and let's not do it today because damn it it's late in the day and i want to quit 10 30 is cold
you volunteers you keep going like no that's not that is beautiful work dave i appreciate it man
i'm excited but i will not start until you're here now we're having an intellectual discussion about
the turbo and actually he's a turbo guy over there he's well it's an f-16 considered a turbo
it should be right so the thought is that when one of these smaller engines is running the way it's
built into the main exhaust it may create a vacuum in the main exhaust and if there is a valve open
an exhaust valve open on the main engine come in five now down below it may draw some air through
the exhaust it might turn the turbo without any oil now dave your your take on it is it's not
gonna be spinning fast enough make any hilly beans difference his take on it is women that's part his
take on it bart do you have an opinion on it uh it doesn't matter you don't think about it what
do you think it's going to turn us no that's not going to turn i don't think it's going
it would it probably won't turn at all and if it in his opinion is what's your opinion do you
have an opinion i don't know enough about it oh that he's going to just going to take the fifth
that's typical air force officers for you and then it's like
senior master well [ __ ] you're more powerful than most officers so what the hell
that's right that's right there's the thoughts these two smaller engines go in at an angle and
we have them stubbed into the main pipe uh the main line comes back up well you can see it does a
180 degree turn there that's the main line going through so i mean leave your guess in the comments
we will not have a contest but hey you can your ego can be kicked up a notch anyway have fun
17 times at the lottery today yeah that's good exercise ah it hadn't gotten any warmer out here
okay flash forward two years a lot of things have changed on the boat and we're getting ready to
do the insulation around the exhaust pipes the diameter of the pipe is four and a half inches
and then we have a belt reducer okay to the flange that's reducing down to two inch so the guy at
the thermal pipe insulation store here in tulsa you know asked me if i had a cad drawing i said
no turns out i'm going to have one and for those of you that don't recognize him that's nick from
renegade sailing check out his channel the renegade show we're gonna get show the renegade
show that's dexter how are you doing dex oh you've been having fun haven't you okay so from that to
that much prettier here you go outside yeah yes okay if you don't know this seeker is going to
be a free of charge research vessel once she's on the water we're going to find students teachers
professors researchers citizen scientists that have some passion for something they want to
do out on the oceans and we're going to give them a free ride and we're going to sponsor
their equipment and their fuel and other things they need if they can't afford it or haven't
written a grant for it we're going to sponsor that through the seachest foundation that's a 501 c 3
non-profit and you can have a part of this boat there's a couple of ways you can do that one is
physically we need 18 650s those are those little lithium-ion batteries the round ones that look
kind of look like double a's we need those and you have them in your old tools your old skateboards
that sort of thing if you have them send them to the address in the description richard day
is going to tear all those things apart test all the batteries he's going to build us up a bank of
batteries for this boat we're going to have that and others as well a lot of power storage because
we're going to take solar energy and fill those up and then we can run our machinery on the boat out
of battery now if you were paying attention to that video from two years ago awot was putting
edison batteries nickel iron batteries into the floor of this hole and unfortunately they
did not give us but about 1.3 kilowatt hours so these storage compartments underneath this floor
are still empty we do not have any batteries richard day is helping us correct that as
well as matthew he's a battery guy and he's working on getting us a forklift battery so
hopefully we'll have something go in there we just need your help if you have some laying around or
if you go down to home depot or lowe's and ask them for some of the they've been turned in
you can send us those batteries don't go out and buy them off the internet or ebay because they're
probably selling batteries that you we really don't want you don't need to give money for it
that's we just want something that you have that you're getting ready to you know to take into home
depot to turn in or something like that send them to us if you have like five or six it's worth the
box that you're gonna put them in and send them down to us if you have two or three batteries just
hang on to them find somebody that has a little project or donate give them to somebody else find
some more batteries but you got to get us you know a bunch of them and we're about uh we've got about
like 1300 of them already but we'll take about three to four thousand if we can get them because
we're going to get the very best of what test out here's a bit of video that explains that
we're going to be taking those making a series of sv seeker key chains and we'll have them available
in a couple ways we're going to go over that and last minute we did decide to make the boat into a
bottle opener as well you got a little key ring hole there for your keychain perfect one way to
get one of these keychains for free is just send us a box of old batteries tool batteries laptop
batteries so just to clarify what we need you guys we need old laptop batteries like this they're
gonna have cells inside they're thicker newer ones that are thin no bueno take all the housing apart
you're gonna get cells just like this that's what doug needs for the boat same things going inside
of tool batteries you just need to see that they have this lithium ion on there somewhere if it
says nickel cadmium or nickel metal hydride nimh they're not the kind that doug needs i've got a
system where we'll break them down test them the best of the best will go on the boat so you can
get the most density out of it and in return as a thanks we'll send you one of these keychains
make sure you put something in there with your address whatever on it and uh you'll you'll get
a keychain if you're not interested in trading some batteries for a keychain doug will tell you
how you can actually get one what's the website oh i don't remember your website rachel i'm sorry man
what is it again weld it yourself kids.com weldityoyourselfkits.com so you can go to
richard's website weld it yourselfkits.com that once again is weld it yourself kits.com you're
also going to be taking a large section of the steel from the hole that was removed to make the
uh folds for the origami and doug's been holding on to forever and we are going to make a larger
cut out of the boat in profile with its full sails up i'm gonna have doug sign them we'll ship them
to you they're gonna be a limited run when they're gone they're gone and we'll never do them again so
if you followed the project for a long time you want a piece of the boat literally on your wall
go ahead pick one up 100 of the money from those is going to go to sea chest foundation and 100
of the profits from the keychains is also going to go to the seachest foundation to support the
work of the boat once it's on the water okay a lot of people think oklahoma is a strange place
to build a boat but we have a couple advantages in tulsa here we are connected to the tulsa port of
katusa that connects us to the oceans of the world and we have a fantastic fabrication industry here
across the river is holley frontier refinery and so there's lots of businesses surrounding that
and we're an oil center so insulating pipe is something we do here all the
time and i have a couple of guys out james and david from tulsa insulation specialist
here today they're going to be installing insulation wrap over the exhaust system on
the engine something you it's expensive to do but when you have it you know available to you locally
price is really good so this is uh james and uh that's david yes you see him down in there
wait for us there there's his hand you can see his hand down there they decided to start with a hard
spot first that's the main line going across and then it goes up the wall over there nick richards
actually measured it all and did a cad drawing of it all so james took those images back with him
and then it's all sewn up at their shop so depending on what you need they add on various
layers so this is one of the cooler wraps this one here has some metal um what is that aluminum
it's a stainless foil really stainless steel foil that's cool and that's uh to go over one of the
hotter spots and look notch to go around every piece of pipe these are stainless steel staples
yep stainless and then silicone that's a silicone coated fiberglass cloth um usually this is about
600 600. they are wiring it together it's just laced just like lacing your shoes isn't it
which makes it really easy to take apart and do an inspection later on
check that out it is all installed oh you even left the sewing out for me appreciate that
well it's easy to reach and it looks cool beautiful job guys even the uh collar where
the flange was is just gorgeous so what do you think baby you prefer boats over refineries
oh both you'll take both huh you're welcome it's a lot quieter here yeah yeah yeah
won't be long till we're ready to start that engine up we move the
boat to the tulsa port of katusa on august 12th
we launch on august 21st make plans come to tulsa join us what'd you make today
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