End of year build update.
I’ve been bitching forever about jump drives needing straight cut gears. Eventually @Evwan agreed and made it happen with some help also from @poastoast and Mr boardy dynamics @Boardnamics
These gears are a drop in replacement. Circle clip install for a gear drive pinion is amazing.
Getting the old gears off proved to be a pain in the duck. Apparently stainless is made out of Swiss cheese and rounds out easily. Yes I heated it up to loosen the loctite. No, it didn’t help. It also drills out easy, but these helical gears are now basically useless. I’m not sure I could ever get these bolt nubs out, so there’s no going back to helicals now.
My backlash is set very loose because the apex air adapter is touching the motor can. It can’t be brought any closer, unless I reclock the stooge gear drive adapter, which would be a metric tuck ton of work. I’m ok living with slightly loose backlash.
Aaaand I got a set of Xcell RS tires because I want the board ready for racing at esk8con. Unfortunately the 9” tires are a little too big and I end up with footbite. The other tires I’d be tempted to try are the Newbee 8” off-road tires, but I’d need yet another set of hubs and apex adapters to make that happen, so not gonna happen for a while, if ever.
