ThingiverseToy Boat with Outboard Motor (bath toy/model)
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Looked for a functional toy boat on here but didn't find anything appropriate. Made this quickly and it turned out pretty great. I had to do a little bit of fitting for the tiller handle and the bracket, but I loosened up the bracket fitment before exporting these STLs. I wanted the bracket, powerhead, rotation to be fairly tight, so I just shimmed with scotch tape as required to get the right fit. The propeller was fit using a screw and the hole in the lower unit was a bit oversized. I simply heated a small machine screw with a lighter and dabbed some PLA on there to make hot glue. Insert into the lower unit and when cool remove the screw and install the propeller. Care should be taken printing the lower unit (printed vertically, inverted), layer times needed to be quite slow for me to get the heat out of it and maintain shape, I ended up printing it on its own at a much lower speed.
The parts are not correctly oriented in the previews. Added screenshot of them on the plate, though