Three days to go. This morning I woke up early to glue the suction tube and impeller pipe into hull. It took a lot of glue, and I've been using this two-part epoxy resin type caper that works underwater, sets hard, is very durable and is generally awesome. The only thing is .. well. What's the best way to say this.
It smells like jizz. No word of a lie.
I took a quick trip home at lunch after the glue had set to finish the job as there was a small part I couldn't reach, and to set up the servos. As my lunch break and my parking time expired, I had the reversing flap set up and working using one of the old helicopter servos. Fortunately I learned enough during this to be reasonably sure I'm going to be able to get the steering working pretty easily. The only thing is that I've held the reversing flap servo on with double-sided tape - very strong double-sided tape, but double-sided tape nonetheless. I doubt the steering servo will fare as well with such weak restraint, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that, but that's a problem to solve after I've figured out where it needs to sit. It might be as easy as drilling into the hull, but it might require zip ties. I kind hope it requires zip ties.
When I get home tonight, it's installing the steering servo, then attempting to seal all of this and glue it into the duck. In a perfect world I'd be able to seal the jug body and test in a sink, but when has anything ever gone according to plan?
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