a couple weeks ago I posted in the metal shop section (Trolling Motor Steering Assembly (was: Bending a flat metal bar up against a curve) - #12 by 0xKruzr) about trying to figure out how to get a trolling motor to steer via wheel instead of tiller. I ended up settling on using the steering assembly from a dead gas motor to do it, just needed to fabricate a bracket for the motor to attach to, like so:
demo video with musical accompaniment (she would be much faster than this except I think I messed up the clutch when I knocked the prop on the bottom, think that’s mostly trivial to fix):
