Sprite Plus Prototype.
With the rear deck insert trimmed to size, the hull was turned over and drilled to take the water inlet scoop.
Both the rudder and the water scoop pick-up and the brass rudder tube were epoxy glued into position to seal them against any water ingress.
The next job will be to cut some fibreglass cloth to cover the engine mounting plate and bond it with resin.
The super-glue that was used to bond the epoxy side plates (for the water-cooled alloy mount) onto the engine plate made a very strong joint that was further reinforced by smearing 24 hour Araldite to make a fillet around the base that was also pushed into the series of drilled holes that were drilled along their base lines.
Fibreglass resin will further reinforce the motor mounting as the cloth will also be fitted against the lower sides of these mounting plates to cover the epoxy fillets and to flow smoothly around them to make a strong integrated motor mounting assembly.
Some P38 will be bought to smooth the area where the prop shaft enters the hull on the inside - and around the prop support fillet on the outside to make these areas look a little neater.
Once the hull build is completed, attention can be given to fitting it out with a LiPo supporting tray, and mounting the ESC and rudder servo.
A cabin lift-off cabin roof assembly needs to be constructed at some stage - and this may be started when some of the glass fibre is curing.
Bob.
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