How to Install a Stuffing Tube in Your RC Boat

Installing a stuffing tube in any boat is very important part of your building process. Done correctly you’re rewarded with a free running drive line with the least amount of friction thus maximizing your motors potential. Also included in this “how to” is my modification of a Warehouse Hobbies strut. These struts were designed to use a 1/8″ stub shaft and .098 flex cable which really isn’t suited to higher powered motors we have today. What we want is to run a .130 flex cable and 3/16″ shaft so a new bearing cartridge is in order, this is an easy modification and I’ll show you how I do it.
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Assembling Radio Control Boat Flex Shafts

Assembling your own flex shafts is an easy and cost effective alternative to higher priced soldered ones. The biggest advantage to “doing it yourself” is cost, a soldered flex shaft is about 18.00 and that doesn’t include shipping. Using my “glued” method the flex shaft will cost roughly 5.00.

Another advantage is you can reuse your stub shafts when a cable gets twisted or shows signs of rust/excessive wear. You could also do this with soldered shafts but the process isn’t nearly as easy and if you’re not comfortable with high temp soldering it’s best left to a person that is.
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Fast Electric RC Race Boat Gallery

Here you’ll find a sideshow of some of my more recent builds in process and on the water.  Enjoy!

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We are also putting together slide shows with customer and site visitor gas and electric boat photos. Send your photos with descriptions to “photos at FastElectricRC.com”. Make sure your photos are no larger than 800 pixels in width and are in .jpg or .png format.

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