Definitely need motor covers or guards, bash guards for m1 drives would be nice too. The position setting that i think your supposed to have it at for the m1 drives have the motors waaaay too close to the ground. With the 6384s i had to flip the truck screws and put a extra washer on the board side bushing so i could set it one position higher.
Yep, I used it a long while back and those motors are still going strong. Let Lee know about it and no problems with his motors. I’d have thought quite a few people will have followed his tutorial and no negative feedback so far.
I used milliput on several motors with success and I abuse them hard
For example I broke many closed Maytech’s within weeks. Since I battle harden them they last (also important to glue the wires inside and outside).
For the rotor the easiest way is to fill some gaps between magnets and then clean/wipe off all the remains with a damp cloth. It’s super easy but if you wait too long or do the whole rotor at once first then you need more tools than the wet cloth to wipe off.
I did repair some fucked threads on the mounting plate already, but never drilled new holes. It should be possible to do without needs to remove the stator from the mounting plate thou. Just be careful and maybe use some masking tape do that no metal parts getting stuck somewhere in the windings.