WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.039 In this video I want to give you an overview of the outboard motor cart. It's 00:06.039 --> 00:10.100 one of the projects in the welding course you can build. And as you can see 00:10.100 --> 00:15.079 here it's it's not just useful for moving the cart up and down to the water 00:15.079 --> 00:20.399 seasonally as you have to do, but also as just a place to store the motor when you 00:20.399 --> 00:24.799 finally got it in a shed or wherever you're going to keep it. As with all the 00:24.799 --> 00:29.159 projects here you should study the plans but also print them out so you can have 00:29.159 --> 00:32.880 a hard copy in your shop as you're working. There's just a couple of things 00:32.880 --> 00:36.919 I want to point out here. Most of the project is made out of one inch by two 00:36.919 --> 00:42.880 inch rectangular tubing which is nice to work with and it's plenty strong 00:42.880 --> 00:49.040 Probably the most complicated part of the project would be the wheels and how 00:49.040 --> 00:54.919 they fasten to the actual cart. So you can use bicycle wheels and the exact 00:54.919 --> 01:00.240 diameter doesn't matter. It's kind of whatever is handy. And the wheels 01:00.240 --> 01:08.639 fasten with these axle plates. So it's just a plate of mild steel. The dimensions 01:08.639 --> 01:15.480 are in the materials list. But there's an oval shaped cutout here for the axle of 01:15.480 --> 01:22.599 the wheel. And the best way to do that is to drill a hole of the diameter you want 01:22.599 --> 01:28.599 and then just continue with a cut here and a cut here in order to turn that 01:28.599 --> 01:33.839 into an oval hole so that the axles can just slide in. You can take them, you can 01:33.839 --> 01:38.959 take the wheels put them on or off just by simply sliding in. Just like wheels 01:38.959 --> 01:43.440 are normally held on the back end of a bicycle. Another thing I'd like to point 01:43.440 --> 01:50.680 out is this piece here. The outboard motor support. The location of that, its 01:50.760 --> 01:57.639 height on the cart needs to match the height of your outboard motor. There's 01:57.639 --> 02:01.239 kind of standard sizes but then there's also this thing called a long shaft 02:01.239 --> 02:08.320 motor. So it's basically a taller motor than normal for a larger boat that's 02:08.320 --> 02:12.839 taller at the transom at the back. So you'd need to adjust this. So the exact 02:12.839 --> 02:19.059 position of this outboard motor support and the lugs you can see down here the 02:19.059 --> 02:23.660 lugs that actually allow the wood to bolt to the cart. That's something you're 02:23.660 --> 02:29.660 going to need to customize. Now in this case on the plans we have two locations 02:29.660 --> 02:34.479 This location for the the two by six piece of wood is kind of for a normal 02:34.479 --> 02:38.460 outboard motor and then if you've got one of these long shaft ones you'd want 02:38.460 --> 02:43.179 to have the lugs higher up so that you have more room for the motor to just hang 02:43.179 --> 02:50.979 there. And just one more thing to leave you with. This is the cart in action and 02:50.979 --> 02:56.580 you can see how there's some handles at the bottom. I mean there's the this arm 02:56.580 --> 03:01.779 you see here and then there's a steel pipe that's been welded on at 90 degrees 03:01.779 --> 03:06.220 to it to form a handle. That's actually a really important feature of this cart 03:06.220 --> 03:12.500 And the arms stop the cart from flopping forward. I mean it allows the cart to sit 03:12.500 --> 03:16.020 upright so it's very important. But these handles as you can see allow a 03:16.020 --> 03:22.419 second person to to help as the carts being worked up on rough terrain. This is 03:22.419 --> 03:27.619 very standard for an outboard motor. You carry the motor down to the water in 03:27.619 --> 03:32.419 the spring and then you carry it up again in the fall. So making the cart a 03:32.419 --> 03:38.259 two-person deal is is a very big help as you'll see