I glued it last night with the JB weld plastic bonder.
and clampled it. seems solid today.
I’m spraying the inside with the bed liner.
will do a few passes.
I am hoping that adds a smidge of strength.
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Like others have said, I’m not sure how much space you have, but if you wanted to add the fillet after the fact, maybe you could use some epoxy putty to fill in the corner?
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I think I got a bit of room in there.(hope so anyways)
I did run a bead of the JB weld plastic bonder on along the corners before srpaying it.
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You have a 3D printer that can print enclosures that size? Why not try printing a mold buck and vacuum form some thick abs? Easy if you have a spare oven…
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I don’t have a printer.
a kid I work with did it for me…
he said it just about maxed out the space of the printer.
it is a tiny tiny enclosure.
I am pretty sure the reinforced 3d printed one will be fine…
making my own Abs enclosure is way way way more work than I want to get into…
$300-400 or so it’s a worthy investment imo. Plenty of free CAD tools (and free 3D) these days too.
I built a simple vacuum forming setup in a weekend in my condo and had a few enclosures out of it pretty quickly. It’s all pretty obtainable just a matter of how much time you’re willing to invest I guess.
Took your recommendation and updated my mini with those lower mounts. Had to shim them to get a tight fit, but overall very clean. Can finally try these otangs I’ve had for three years.
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this is a big challenge for me. not enough hours in the day, not enough days in the week. yada, yada, yada.
Really what I need to do is buy one of the enclosures from you!!!
That looks super good!!!
What thickness ABS is that?
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It came from a mold 3D printed in PLA so I got 3 shots out of it. Been considering making a few more since I have extra material. I’ll let you know.
Here’s the old build thread when I made it
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ok.
The Littles are back together. All is well.
I opened up the enclosure for the r Dinghy to reinforce it it with some gorilla tape and tape the battery down some more.
For the Ditch Life that I expect I will be much harder on I did buch of crap
evoxy bead along the edges. sprayed with bed liner a bunch. it kind or rubberized it… put some gorilla tape on there because I have issues…
the Velcro was not holding super well so I taped the battery down with 3m double tape and a crap ton of gorilla tape and the tape is under the enclosure being held down…
And I used longer bolts on both…
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Ok kids.
let’s talk about my plans for the Claus Grabke.
The Claus is stealing parts from the Coyote.
The Coyote was cute and fun. But it lost it’s allure as a tiny death trap when the Dinghy took the throne or tiniest of death traps.
So I wanted yet another kick tail but with a wider deck.
Turns out the Claus is super similar in size to the Ditch Life.
But taking a closer look they are quite different.
Biggest difference is the wheel base on the Claus is 16.5 vs 15 on the Ditch Life.
The Claus is also very flat…
Like, seriously very flat… it will be interesting to see how that pans out.
So what else will be different about the Claus…
I think it will sit somewhere between the Ditch Life and the Omakase.
It will be more power than the Ditch Life.
going dual and 12s…
but not a little beast like the Omakase…
So what will be the parts:
12S3P 30Q( my very first battery pack. need to beef up the taping…)
Unity. (This is a spare Unity I bought in anticipation of the ESC shortages) if I need it else where I will put a Flipsky 6.6 dual plus in here.
Tiny Flipsky 5045 200kV motors.(wanted to do dual with the 145s)
Boardnamics 145mm hanger in the back.
Caliber 154 up front.
Old style BKB mounts. slightly mangled for the motors.
14/40 on Orange 80mm Kegels.
And hopefully another custom 3D printed enclosure from my homie at work.
Yesterday I gripped the deck and put the trucks on and took it out for some carving.
First impressions were ok.
Did I mention the deck is very Flat…
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got to ride around the neighborhood today with the guy that started it all.
My neighbor Ken.
with his Metro board still kicking.
Awesome.
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it was time for new tires for the Flux.
I hope I did ok on the Kenda Lottery…
I also changed the Motor pulleys.
Going from 14/72 to 15/72…
see what all that does…
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Welp…
My pipe dream did not pan out.
What I was really hoping and dreaming is that going from 14/72 to 15/72 was magically going to improve my efficiency.
but that didn not happen…
I am really not sure I noticed much of a difference in ride feel.
this thing still crushed hills.
I didnt notice it being “faster”
maybe it did feel a little better towards the end of the battery at 43 volts and below…
The board did feel good.
ESC stayed cool.(relatively cool day)
and I didn’t really notice much sag…
but seriously damn it all. I wish I had a bigger battery.
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Is the battery limiting your speed you think? (maxed out battery current)
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no. I would not think so.
but I am not clear on why you are you asking that.
is it because I said if didn’t seem faster?
I am the one limiting the speed in the sense that I don’t fully peg the remote.
but this is a giant pack amp wise…
I think I only set the unity to 70 amp max battery…
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Yeah, but now I realize your main concern was efficiency, so ignore what I said.
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ok. gotcha.
That should lower the efficiency and give a tiny bit more top speed at the expense of a bit of range.
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Well it could have improved free-roll, but looks like that had no effect on the final numbers.
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yeah.
I think I was hoping for some kind of magic…
as in… my gearing was too tall…
but very minor change in the gearing and really not anything noticeable in the feel.
I will probably keep it like this for a bit.
see how a few more rides go.
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