Having been for a couple of rides with the new hound, it is bleedingly apparent that if I want to do any sort of substantial distance with her, I’m potentially going to need a chariot of my own…
You can be damn sure that any chariot I build won’t be anywhere near as nice as yours though!!
Thanks.
I have spent way too much time on this thing, and if starting over, without needing it to roll that night, I’d build it differently.
It’s weight with Fiona inside and some water and tools and rubber mat, is close to 85 lbs, and even with a bum shoulder, it pulls like a dream.
I love being able to stop, allow Fiona to step out, load the esk8 into it, and just walk it. The balance is almost perfect, and how far forward or back I put the skate can make balance perfect, zero tongue weight on handle.
i can carve and reduce the motion of the cart with my arm, and move it side to side to avoid obstacles.
I have a little ‘racetrack’ out front I need to place a camera in.
My brakes are almost good now, but I still do a hard slalom to slow faster, before rounding an island, and Fiona is great at splaying her front paws wide, putting her butt in the corner and leaning into the turn with a shit eating grin on her face.
I’ll stop and offer to let her out so.I can ride more aggressively solo, and she is like" WTF, let’s keep going!"
Even when she was a puppy she was only a sprinter, if chasing a ball, and not very fast with her barrell body and stubby legs, and she turns 12 next month, and I got to make every day with her sweet goofy presence count.
I’m gonna go cut and sand any sharp fiberglass and reassemble the chariot and go for a roll with her right now.
That is really light
Getting the hanger back in its receptacle took a little sanding, but getting basket into base was easy, and the side cuts and some sandpaper removed any sharp edges quickly and easily.
I can’t notice the extra pound of weight of epoxy and fiberglass.
I can notice the base’s fork and handle are slightly more rigid, and Fiona shifting her weight even slightly is more noticeable.
It is so nice.to be able to roll the crushed shell trail again. I stop to let fiona squat at beginning, then she wants back in, and we roll to the shade, and she hunches, then slowly walks to the next patch of shade to wait while I bag it. I roll up and tilt it back and we roll the remaining distance at a slow jogging speed.
There was this orange and brown snake chilling out when we arrived.
The glossy chariot base does not reduce the camouflage effect too much.
I want to add a bit more fiberglass tow/roving to the roadside of the chariot base and seal it better, but not today.
The basket needs some wire brushing of the charred edged and some sanding, perhaps more burning, and then be sealed. One or two areas I might reinforce, and make some sacrificial feet when it rests nose or tail down.
Then come some lights.
But today, were just gonna roll, and enjoy the ability to roll to the parks.
Can you train it to sit between your legs as you ride? Seems like it may fit?
Maybe make little top mount basket…
Potentially… but i have other plans for that space….
Don’t you have plenty of other places to mount your dildo collection?
I had a similar-sized dog and carried her all the time when I was skating. Just pick her up.
Has anyone seen a dog stick their head out of a moving car window, and thought…
That dog absolutely hates doing that?
Chariot ride = pure joy.
The destination is not even half the reward.
Chariot is definitely the coolest option.
A sidecart would be pretty damn awesome too… that would take some engineering tho
That is in fact a happy puppers!!!
Also where in the world are these adventures taking place?
SW Florida.
Fiona has become amazingly heat tolerant, but not if she has to walk in the heat.
So rolling is required, and the manufactured breeze at 20mph is appreciated by us both.
A side cart would be cool, if the routes are wide.
When road width is no issue, I often grab the ball on the edge of the handle and bring her up near parallall with me, into clean air, and more so when my wheels might lift sand or pebbles into her face.
There is added wind drag with her at my side, so top speed is down but still over 22mph unless battery is in bottom quarter.
I also keep her pneumatics really low, like 8-9psi, so it rides softer for her.
I air down my front pneumatics so we have about the same rolling resistance, and about the same freeroll, and screw the loss of range.
No project progress has occurred.
Just enjoying rolling with my best friend.
I’m not sure how much longer my 8x3" turf tires have. I forgot that I had let more pressure out of them mid journey a while back, so chariot and esk8 had similar free roll. I checked, 8.4 and 8.1 psi.
I ordered some of the copper brazing paste/welding Flux, one more BAK45D, to make a 3s1p pack, and two JP30’s from Nelvick.
The Jp30’s will be for flashlights which can’t really utilize their power density, but they are just such an impressive cell, I have to have at least one.
They will retire some other cells which will then be sacrificed for dialing in AwithZ p20B welder settings, and refining technique with 0.2mm copper, 0.1mm nickel plated steel sandwich.
I feel this.
My van has had so little progress over the last few months. It’s winter, so the days are short and cold and everything just feels like a bit of a struggle.
But I’ve been strangely ok with not making project progress as long as my basic needs are otherwise met.
Sometimes it’s fine to just be and not need to get shit done. Sometimes just being is the best times.
We’ve been hogging all the sunshine up here, you’re up next though 
The copper Welding flux/brazing paste arrived this AM via UPS, along with some.other goodies ordered from Nelvick’s store on Thursday evening, 2 days ago.
It allowed me to successfully weld 0.2mm copper, 0.1 Nickel plated steel sandwich using 79% of Max power with flux instead of 99% without.
Gear 790 instead of 990 using the AwithZ P20B soot welder.
Preheating 20ms, double pulse with 3ms interval between pulses.
The welds looked fatter too.
What I find interesting, is that once one rips off the copper, cleans the strip of the dark gray welding flux with rubbing alcohol, there is a silver sheen on the copper right next to the weld.
I could detect no difference in resistance with DMM probe on top of this silvery copper, vs right next to it.
The welding flux not only lessened the power required to achieve a solid weld, but the welds looked fatter too, wider than the width of the electrode tips.
I need more test cells.
I tried 0.2mm copper, no NPS, with flux, near edge of can, and blew a hole.into the can. This left steel welded to electrode tip, and the diamond coated hand file was too slow, so I went to the dremel, which started behaving like it needs new brushes.
Then sweat dripped from forehead into my eyeball, and I fled the 94f garage.
My one Flashlight that I got an Ampace JP30 for, needs a button top. I have buttons. Non magnetic. 0.2mm.
Need to go sort out the settings, but I want to wekd copper strip under the button, the fold it over the button and weld it again.
This flashlight can’t pull more than 10amps, and does not need the JP30’s ability
But I can weld copper dammit!
With spot welding and copper on the brain, I’ve got some more thoughts.
This welding flux allowed my welder to use 20% less power, to achieve solid, and wider welds on 0.2mm copper, 0.1 nickel plated steel sandwich.
Wider diameter welds should have less resistance.
Less welding power should mean less heat entering the cell, oxidizing the electrolyte less.
The flux has tin and nickel inside of it, perhaps some other powdered metals too… The syringe of it weighs far more in hand than I expected
When I tore off the welds, and cleaned the remaining flux off with 91% rubbing alcohol, the copper immediately adjacent to the welds was silver, as if tinned.
I didn’t notice if the sikvry tinning was also bonded to the cell as well. I’d think so.
Sorry the picture is bad. My phone sucks at macro photos.
Will remedy and repeat.
Since the copper or nickel strip next to welds is not perfectly flat, spreading contact amongst a larger surface area, this silvery ‘solder’ layer right next to the weld, should increase the contact between cell and copper or nickel strip, further reducing electrical resistance.
I know my skate is low power compared to most builds here.
I’m not even coming close to the CDR of my BAK45D cells.
I did not need to go tabless.
My first esk8 battery did not need 0.1mm copper nickel sandwich, or 10awg and XT90s, but it got it. My second and third got the same.
My 4th is on the bench. 10s1p of EVE 40PL, and now I can weld 0.2mm copper.
Did you just hear maniacal laughing off in the distance?
I hope to get the small Eve pack sending juice to a Pair of OG Focboxes, powering the Puaida hub motors. My previous forays with vesc tool did not go well. I’ve no confidence, only reluctance regarding vescs and vesctool.
In theory I could have the lightweight mini build’s enclosure populated wiith focboxes eve 40pl 10s1p and velcro cinch strapped to my long cruiser relatively quickly. Heck I should at least be testing the motors on the bench, in the AC, using my semi retired 10s2p dmegc 26e pack feeding the focboxes. Ill know if they sound right. They never did on the Fsesc 6.6mini, and then sounded.worse when test riding.
I dont know how much more power the motors can handle heat wise. The 2*12 battery amp Puaida/Lingyi says 40-45 phase amps max(per motor?), and the motors get me towing Fiona upto 25mph, in Flat Florida with no headwind, and when solo, I’ve exceeded 30mph, and do not feel the need to do that again.
I do want a back up board soon.
My long flexy cruiser is a bit of a pain bring in to the store.
Not gonna ride the lightweight mini kicktail with the EVE focbox powertrain until it proves itself strapped to the long cruiser first.
I want to take Fiona Kayaking again, but the water looks pretty nasty with all the rain, and there are reports of Vibrio Vilnificus, flesh eating bacteria infecting people in Tampa. That same bacteria which nearly killed Fiona last year about this time when it got into her mammary. That now excised mammary.
South facing uninsulated garage workspace is too damn hot.
West wall just radiates heat for hours after sunset.
The window shaker AC barely makes a dent, and a hot car engine does not help. Neither do Mosquitoes.
Interior Air conditioned workspace obstacles aplenty.
Soldering fumes, and brazing paste fumes need to go out window.
Ducting needed. Hepa charcoal air filter too.
My lower back is on fire.
We rolled today, but it hurt.
Old but capable camera gear being dedusted, charged, tuned.
Am refamiliarizing.
Well focused Macro photos soon.
Might pry apart old but still functional aftermarket 3s2p windows 7 laptop battery for practice weld 18650’s.
Perhaps Rebuild it with EVE 35v, but any cell would be better than whatever reclaimed crap they used in 2018.
Wanna buy a 5s3p 21700 cell Makita battery kit, fill it with Reliance RS40 or 50’s or JP40, or 40PL. I hate listening to the leaf blower slowly lose rpm on 10 old tech 2000mah Samsung 20R cells, or whatever saggy cell it uses.
