Oops. I mis read that. It was you asking @hide for another set to test. Sorry.
Are you able to send @rafaelinmissouri a fresh set. No Alcohol showers. No caustic paste masks. No dremel heating. Just road testing. I think it would help to demonstrate that the crack in @rafaelinmissouri 's wheel was due to some combination of chemical / heat damage.
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In the event @hide would send @rafaelinmissouri another set, I would suggest he wait until the matched iWonder pulleys are also available and send those, too.
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Since I saw another person in the other thread post a pic of the weird curved mold lines, mine have the exact same line, and when you have them in-hand it’s clearer that they are just surface imperfections.
I do have one straight line that concerns me on one wheel. It seems to be offset from the other mold lines. I’ll take a pic when I can. I haven’t done anything with these wheels other than take them out of the box, put in the bearings, and hold back tears of disappointment as I realized the pulleys wouldn’t fit. Are tears caustic?
Doesn’t matter, you held them back!
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So Whats up with the pulleys not fitting? Are they bolt ons? or standard ABEC?
Do the discoveries have thicker spokes that are too small for standard ABEC?
Pictures?
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I’ve tried to take pics but it’s hard to show. If you check earlier in the thread you can see @Hide responding though. The spokes for the Discovery cores are much thicker, so it won’t fit anything ABECish currently. They’re sending me pulleys as soon as they exist though (soon please!).
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Exactly this.
I detailed this extensively above.
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I just realized that I posted my pics in the other thread instead of this one. Whoops.
So here there are again:
Apologies for 2 and 4 not having quite as sharp focus.
Mine have the same lines as @rafaelinmissouri’s did, but I can tell that they are scratches/surface imperfections. They do not go all the way through.
I can take more extreme close-ups if people are interested, but I figured I’d just do the whole core for now.
I will ride them in a couple days once the rain lets up. And if anyone can fuck these bad boys up, it’s 6’7" 250lb me.
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would it be possible to soak the wheel in coloured dye and see if any colour settle in the cracks to identify them easily?
just an idea, please don’t bash me
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At that level of effort I would go with the idea of glueing in a push fit pulley.
With this enertion style one you would still be able to remove the bearings to replace them.
I’m planning on doing this I guess. I don’t know what adhesive I should use yet. I think It would need to be very stiff to prevent the core from flexing and cracking.
Oh I realize this is the wrong thread for the braking wheels I’m talking about but the idea stands for these wheels as well with prob an even higher chance of success.
Did you try and fit any non press fit pulleys like those from Dicky that uses the m5 bolts?
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Ehh, at the very beginning was a whole ordeal about bolt-on pulleys creating too much stress and damaging the core… That was how that whole press-fit thing came about.
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I don’t use bolt-ons in any application. Personal preference.
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I’m just catching up on this thread. not sure if it’s been mentioned. take off your drive wheels, pull off the wheel pulley and see it the bearing in the pulley actually free spins. I noticed a huge loss of range (nothing close to my calculation) when I used the TB AT wheels for a bit. Took everything off an noticed the plastic pulley bearing seat was not perfectly round and actually squeezed the bearing enough to seize up the bearing. I put those wheels on the shelf and am waiting for improved replacements from TB.
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I think I’ve heard something like that as well but to me it doesn’t really make sense…
Been using bolt on pulleys since I started riding and never had issues, although I might not be the harshest rider 
Noted on that mate 
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Any updates on the testing for these wheels? I’m seeing more and more advertisements for them on my feeds.
Did everything get resolved?
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I’m a ride away from 150km, so I’ll pull them and report back in a few days. Just don’t expect @rafaelinmissouri photo excellence.
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I despite those things but in this case there is no way in hell my 3dservisas pulleys are going on these wheels. Sad. 4 brand new top of the line pulleys just collecting dust on a shelf haha
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