BLACKLIGHT - Elofty Direct Drive / Focbox Unity / 97mm Abec Clones / 10s Swappable Lipo / DIY 3D Printed 2-part Enclosure / Skateshred Deck w/ glass & 3d printed frit

[kook]

@Movation

Ownboard has cnc elofty abec adaptors for $40

can you link these for me please, I’ve looked all over their website…TIA

[Movation]

Not on website dm him here or email them.

@Liuqiu-Ownboard
Royal pain to deal with I am having Kenna PTSD…

[kook]

@Movation

Kenna PTSD

I totally understand! hahahaha and feel your pain… thanks for the info!!!

[ryansinatra]

Vapor bathed ABS definitely wasn’t the right solution

[Myke]

Is this breaking from.normal riding?

[ryansinatra]

Yeah completely normal riding. If even call it mellow riding. I need to try petg or maybe design some bolt on until I can get metal ones

[kook]

weird… so weird I have 100s of miles on my ABS vapor bathed ABEC adapters… I’ve only experienced one failure and that was when the outer wheel bearing disintegrated and then the adapter failed…

[ryansinatra]

Is your STL public?

[ryansinatra]

More accent details.

[kook]

I have a feeling that I now understand what may be the culprit of your adapter failure…

On my adapters I made, I added an internal bearing support…

and added an additional inside wheel bearing.

without the additional bearing, the end of the motor can, can “float” I.E. the can is not supported at the nut end and only held in place with friction on the oversized stator.

This caused a misalignment of the motor and the wheel during loading or while riding, the weakest link in the existing set-up is the adapter lugs that will work while in the relatively unsupported wheel, and will eventually fail.

[che]

May I ask you how have you painted the top of the deck? Have you glued something there?

[ryansinatra]

Forget the grip use Glass Frit

I am sure most of you know how to do this but for those who do not I will be taking you through the steps I use for putting a layer of glass frit on the board as griptape. First there are a few different ways that people on here have done this. For instance @Sender use epoxy which works very nicely but depending on where you are it may not be readily available or the price tag may be too high. You can also use lucid grip which uses glass frit but is a spray on adhesive and it doesn’t last whic…

[ryansinatra]

My Elofty + Unity + Swappable Lipo combo is still going strong. Time for some much needed wheel upgrades! Been itching to try these boas even though I know they aren’t the same quality as the OG ones. (Also fuck Jed)

I’ll be able to finally use the metal kegel adapters that came with these drives instead of my 3D printed + metal ones I created.

[ryansinatra]

These still look perfect fine after plenty of miles. Happy with how these adapters turned out. I’ll hold onto them just in case I need to use abecs again

[Rollinsoul]

Hi I’m trying to strip my elofty/ boundmotor direct drives to check the bearings. Got mad noise coming from the cans. Can you give a step by step guide to opening them up and replacing bearings. Thanks

[kook]

read here…

eLofty Direct Drive Discussions-read before buying

This thread is is to discuss the eLofty/Lofty direct drives. This includes the features, latest news, your reviews, upgrades, issues, failures etc. To avoid derailing the thread please back your opinion, both good and bad, with data. I’ll try to keep this first post updated with all pertinent information. Please let me know if you would like to have something useful added up here. It all started with @BillGordon’s review of the direct drives. Followed by positive comments from @esk8jpn, @topclo…

maybe search that thread for @kook posts… it’s all there

[Rollinsoul]

Thanks for getting back. I worked it out and they’re running much better.