I put @klaus79856 board together and used some of my gear.
Started Monday.
Drilled, tapped, reamed, and countersinked reacher motor plates to fit lacroix pattern. Did NOT use long Motor set screws that could bite into windings.
Lunchbox held on by 3 points instead of 2 or 4 with dense motor can shipping foam as a deck/battery housing case interface.
Lunchbox is tiny and barely fits lipos, esc, and gt2b receiver. Pelican 1170 Case With Foam (Black) https://a.co/d/43bOdHQ
I’m going to cut the nose and tail bc I’m concerned about wheel bite if I put hellcat wides on it. I’ll buy Klause a replacement.
Unity momentary button worked perfectly in lieu of the stormcore 5 or 6 pin monetary switch.
I think these are the motor mounts.
Phase wire routing ain’t pretty, but it’s my first channel AT board and I intend to ride it hard in the desert.
Has a handle, unfortunately it’s not Samsonite.
Mbs 72t pulleys are okay. Uses 430 HTD 5M belts (the same belt for the 8 motor build). 18t motor pulleys,
Need to armor tire tubes (cactus), rig lipo cooling (105 F today), wrap the white Graphics in black vinyl, attempt an ESC heat sink and install buck converter for night red lights. (You people with fuck-off bright, unfocused, white lights can’t come).
This looks awesome! Should be perfect for its intended use. I too have the beginnings of a similar build. No desert here, but some great utility trails I can’t wait to destroy haha. Cool build. Crazy how fast you can put one together.
Haha. I’ll keep that in mind. I wish I had a long period of time I could just build. Sadly, I can only take little stabs at it once everyone in the house has gone to bed…
I had a remote hiccup. (Wasn’t fail safe, I bent down to grab something out bag and hit full throttle with glove hand… I think). Board ran away, hit a bank, 3/4 flip, cleared 20ft. Scratches, but worked fine after.
I wish I had video. That was the most intense thing I’ve seen happen to an esk8 short of flaming 18650 shooting out of the enclosure.
Dayum. I know it’s not supposed to be funny, but for some reason I can’t stop laughing at the mental image of all that shit happening just like you described, but with you locked into the bindings and riding it out to its conclusion. Of course my brain added some skate buddies standing there watching and thinking you did it all on purpose.
Here’s a neighborhood run. There is some desert, but you can always see hardball road. All spin parts were printed by me. This was a cooler evening in the mid 80s.