ESK8 & the environment

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how many nails u guys have on ur enclosure that went through and cause the battery to catch on fire before? or if any

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I see why you might feel that way since you completely missed the point from the start.

You can use old bamboo that’s ‘trash’ to make a deck out of instead of throwing it away for example. Or I don’t know maybe this guy has some ideas:

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See, that’s a good example. Not old chewing gum for wheels.

I didn’t misunderstand anything, you’re talking about using trash to make esk8 components.

Maybe you should have opened the discussion with that.

Not likely lol

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Lol! :joy: What’s that made out of?

Stainless steel lol

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You missed the point and shut the discussion down before it even started. Can you follow a diff thread and mute yourself it would be great to hear from others.

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Hmm :thinking: im thinking what can go through that :joy:

I bet that’s quite heavy

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60 lbs :upside_down_face:

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Dude that’s insane! Where did you get the metal from? Was it ‘trash’ at one point? :wink:

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Possibly! I’m not sure where sendcutsend gets their steel from. I use “trash” to cushion components on my builds sometimes

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Maybe wrong place to tell you, but I just checked out your build!!! that is sick AF!!!

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haha thanks, I’ll try to add something about the environment below.

How do you guys dispose of dead cells? I have a box full of them and dont know were to take them and how I should prep them before heading over.

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There was a company in the UK that revives dead cells or something like that -did you come across anything like that?

I saw those in my searches but my cells are donezo. Fully utilized and of no use to anyone anymore

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There are generally battery recycling points at some areas in BestBuys and Staples, otherwise no idea.

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I’ll call my local bestbuy, thanks!

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Home Depot has a box just inside their entrance for cell recycling

He probably feels that way because you used such a ridiculous scenario as an argument point lmao

No one has nails going through their enclosure, in fact, the only enclosures that break around here are usually the crappy ones lol and usually its extenuating circumstances

Esk8 is already a “green” hobby. I wouldn’t feel comfortable using ‘trash’ for any of my components. Maybe if there was recycled material grip tape… or like

Yeah that’s all lol

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Never said people have nails going through enclosures, I just said it can happen which it can and it doesn’t have to be a nail it can be a rock denting the enclosure starting a fire which is a plausible scenario. And I said that in response to someone saying ‘we don’t build batteries that can catch fire’.

Is it that ridiculous to make ESK8 wheels out of repurposed materials? Which can be called ‘trash’ or just repurposed material?

I mean I still have to disagree I don’t think anyone’s battery has caught on fire from that

But anyway, I don’t know if it’s ridiculous, there’s just too many high risk components where you could die if it failed lol that’s like saying you want to make a motorcycle with repurposed materials

Again though for esk8, maybe not the greatest idea because our wheels see so much stress in high risk situations

You can only push like 15mph on skateboard wheels, and they are a completely different hardness. I’m not actually sure if you can recycle urethane, maybe recycled rubber wheels would be possible

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