Motor mounting plate

 I decided to start the mount for the motor even though I still don’t have my thrust bearing. 

I gathered a pile of steel from other projects and recycled to make my mount.

I transferred the dimensions to cardboard, then center punched locations to mounting plate that I had cut roughly to size.

All of this took longer than expected, the aluminum I’m using is some tough stuff, 20 inches of cut ruined 2 blades on the saw.

The blue items next to mount are a few batteries I set in for fitting.

I still need to sort the top support, and cut some battery shelves. I am planning on a second layer over the motor, I have 32 40 amp batteries that in parallel wound add 80 amp hours.