Careful, Mike. He’ll start packing a U-Haul. You, Rob, and Andrew all in one house. It’s like the Real World with much lower low life expectancy.
How many marijuanas Mike
I don’t have a good response to this except to say, someone loan me foamies that don’t have have an STI in the crevices.
I hate to admit this, every time I step foot on a boosted, a good one, I’m like, dammmmmmn, this is pretty ok.
Is it conclusive that there was no spacer? Does the picture show for certain that there is no spacer?
How can you tell? Do the bearings look closer together than a spacer gap?
Can we get a confirmation from @rafaelinmissouri
I don’t think there’s anything conclusive here, but the lack of a spacer would pretty much solve this mystery.
There is 100% no spacer in that picture. Those bearings are way too close. Either he took everything off the axle then put it back to take that picture but forgot the spacer (then why put the plastic back), or the spacer is missing.
The plot thickens
No, that’s part of the core. We’re talking about the little metal bastards that keep your bearings in place and hop out of the wheel and hide when you’re swapping bearings.
This is basically going to be the Covid-19 of esk8
You know, metroboards doesnt seem to think they are of any use. I don’t understand this. I messaged him because I thought it was premature of him to post that without an investigation into this matter. When asked whether the lack of a spacer could’ve caused it, the above was his response.
Edit: WTF?
Honestly don’t care what he thinks.
I know what myself and everyone I’ve done downhill with over the years believe. Spacers and speed rings matter.
Lmao yo friend dumb ok and tell metro board to figure out how to make their shit not sound like its falling apart. Lemme break it down for ya.
Here how it happened:
Wheel installed without spacer, nut was not tightened properly due to lack of compression, vibration cause nut to come loose, one bearing slipped out to edge of core, angular stress cracked core shell at the lip, rest of core failed catastrophically.
Inspect close up of where the nut is. Was not loosened by sliding on the ground, its on the right hand side. Gap much bigger than 10mm spacer allow with 608 7mm wide bearing as reference.
Tl;DR no spacer, nut come loose, bearing come out, shell break. Cry on FB.
Also mechanical engineer thinks that you will get hard stop while cranking on bearings seated in plastic? Has he calculated the compression force of a 5/16-24 nut compressing onto a 2mm thick, 8mm diameter nylon lip?
No? This is why I don’t by HP products.
I hope he sees the picture of that nut almost bout to fall off the axle. He posted the failure reason right there lol.
I tried telling him otherwise.
Yes there will be a hard stop, when your core is complete crushed by overtightening. Good lord. I’m sorry but please return that degree in mechE.
I’m usually a nice guy, but not when it comes to stupidity.
Yeah he needs to get a refund on that ASAP. lol. Not to mention that even if the core survives, you have now pitted your bearing race and it is going to deteriorate rapidly at high speed, creating heat and possibly cause… core failure. Lol