That’s not a problem for this build – trolling motors aren’t designed ... but it is a nice bit of MacGyverism to build a boat motor out of spare parts. Check out the build walk though ...

It’s a common technique used to build giant parts on smaller 3D printers ... well sealed against water ingress. It then got a trolling motor, survived a capsizing, and eventually took to ...

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, today’s trolling motors are more durable that those of a generation ago. It used to be that if you hit a stump, or even just got bogged down in grass, steering ...