{"id":14,"date":"2012-10-07T16:08:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2015-02-21T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:49:36","slug":"the-hull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"The hull"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hull<\/h1>\n
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Firstly an apology. For some reason I didn’t take nearly enough photos of this… Sorry.<\/p>\n

In most cases, when you fit a lift duct to a craft that didn’t have one, you cut a large hole in the front deck and fix in a glassfibre duct.<\/p>\n

The Moto cyclone doesn’t really have a front deck to speak of so that’s not an option. You can see from the pictures of Random V1 that there was a black fly screen at the front. This was fixed to raised lip that runs all around the cockpit. The new duct is a large moulding that fits over this lip and about a third of the length of the craft.<\/p>\n

The inside wall of the cockpit was removed as was the buoyancy up to about half way down the plenum. The new duct was fitted and because I needed the buoyancy and didn’t need a very wide cockpit, a large chuck of the foam was glassed in on each side of the cockpit.<\/p>\n

At the back a 900mm duct was fitted in place of the 750mm. This tme there was no need for a splitter plate. The flow straigteners are standard this time and were bought from K&M products as was the duct.<\/p>\n

A centre console was needed. The old one wasn’t long enough as there was going to be a prop shaft running the length of the craft and it’s not a good idea to crouch down over an un-guarded prop shaft that’ rotating at 3,500 RPM. A new console was built. This was made from GRP layed up on to a foam plug which was then removed. It wasn’t pretty but it was functional. Other guards were built from steel and aluminium to cover other exposeded bits. More on that later.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hull Firstly an apology. For some reason I didn’t take nearly enough photos of this… Sorry. In most cases, when you fit a lift duct to a craft that didn’t have one, you cut a large hole in the front deck and fix in a glassfibre duct. The Moto cyclone doesn’t really have a … Continue reading The hull<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c80-random-orbit-2"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"andy","author_link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}