Unfortunately no, i have not tried Surfrodz yet. I do have a pair of 184mm Boardnamics.
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I can vouch for dents and scratches. Not very good, and yet they still look the best to me for which mounts are available.
I love the versatility of the axles too which makes it possible to use a whole range of motors and wheels and pulleys and width.
It seems to me that we are stuck with surfrodz not because they’re the cheapest, not because they’re good trucks, but because they were a legacy choice we made awhile back…
I’d very much like to adapt to the next best precision truck rather than adapt to a legacy one.
You might however have a point with the different rage of axles you can use, but that’s a relative easy concept to replicate on any CNC-ed trucks with removable axles. Axles are cheap.
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It’s because they are wide enough and easy to electrify
Trucks are pretty important on a board
Both tb trucks and SR trucks are dirt cheap if you want to compare them to other precisions
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I don’t see nearly as many TB trucks as surfrodz though. Am I getting old and blind ):
I only see them on the direct drives since it comes with it for the front truck. Very few have used it for belt drives since the mounts are only to TB currently.
They use a square profile though, seems so much easier to design an adapter for those than to a pair of surfrodz 
They came out relatively recently and had a couple of issues. Also the axle is too short for bearing pulleys.
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yeah this is the main reason they many people don’t have them. I would prefer if you could design the clamps them make a group buy poll to see who wants what and then make them like that (by batch) instead of stocking only one type
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what were you doing when these stripped? high torque/speed/hard brake?
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Ouch!!! Gota play by play for us?
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Did you run into a wall? 
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I was spinning the wheels (doing burnouts) and I was not on the board (thankfully). Fully pegged the throttle once, then twice, then the drive locked up. Not the best idea in retrospect, but under no load I did not think that doing that would be a problem. I have done that plenty of times on other boards (and this one as well) with no issue. I have less than 100 miles on these drives.
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Wonder if the gear mesh had gotten too loose somehow. Enabling the steel gear to slip and grind down the pom. Just one side?
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I was thinking that may have been it, but the backlash is exactly how I had it. Also the teeth of the gear are snapped off not ground up.
Just one side, yes. Just checked.
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If backlash was too loose, it would most likely shear all around the gear but less, not just half of it completely…
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Does any part look a bit melted?
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Gotcha. I suppose there is always the possibility of a 1-off manufacturing defect
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