Ya
Seemed to work really well. Got somewhere around 500km out of it until I snapped the hummie axle. Been out of commission ever since…
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says something about your work if the axle broke before your chop fix did 
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I’m very late here but man that’s so nice to hear, glad to hear he’s got a good dad looking out for him
Also unrelated but wanted to ask about your 3 bearing idler setup: do you have a speeding or two between the innermost one and the motor mount or how does the outer race not bite into it? Also I’d have thought you’d need speedrings between the bearings, but I guess if they’re all spinning at the same speed it doesn’t matter if they contact each other?
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thanks a bunch dude. really I have a good kid looking out for me!!!
yep. one washer up on the mount side.
bearings are all togherher
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Huh cool thanks. Thinking about this (the bearings spinning each other or causing some rubbing) got me imagining using an IR camera/thermal imaging setup to observe one of our drivetrains in action, that’d be interesting to see. Putting a board on a dynamometer with a dummy weight and then looking for hot spots to show where the losses actually are, might be a nice way of clearing up what role belt tension, bearing quality, idler or no idler, etc all play in deciding a good or bad setup
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Gotta get that build back on the road, I remember it being glorious in its golden days.
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It will be revived soon, just a little differently…
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went to the shop today and got a new skateboard.
always such a great feeling…
gonna pop over to the park and see if I can still ride…
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That’s one of the most stealth builds ever. Where did you hide the battery? 
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so I am on the journey to get the Demonseed DKP back running.
I got the hanger from Evolve pretty quickly.
I pondered getting the wider Flipsky 13.78 trucks, but then I decided to be frugal.
Really I was just happy with the way it was set up. so why mess with it.
I dig up the other Demonseed from the basement( it’s last appearance was on the loaner 2.0)
And it is a little beat up.
So here is where I take my long detour…
I decide I am sanding down the Demonseed…
get it to bare wood and put some clear stain on it.
and I did the tail of the broken Demonseee and it seemed it would be easy enough…
so I decide to send it.
and what a pain i my ass.
I could not sand through the Lucid.
had to break out the heat gun and push it out…
that was super smelly and I wonder how toxic… but it worked ok.
I still need to get in there for more sanding but looks like it will be ok from here on…
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Got a bunch of sanding done today.
I don’t think I am quite there. but I am also not sure I will get it much better than this.
currently I want to go with a stain to make it look like some of the Arbor Decks.
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@rafaelinmissouri what kind of bedliner spray do you use on your builds? Any primer?
I’m looking do do something similar on an eboosted enclosure I’m about to get creative with.
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hey dudes.
I have used both Krylon and Rust-Oleum.
fairly similar… I seem to generally like the results of Krylon better but it is really close.
you get different results depending on spray distance and such.
I do not use any primer.
just clean. sometimes lightly sand
.and do several coats.
I have not painted an Eboosted enclosure. but I assume this stuff can stick to anything.
heads up. it is super smelly. I always piss off my wife when I use it…
I just did this the other day.
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wow. yeah. that there looks really smooth.
is that a few coats or a ton of coats?
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Thank you - that is super helpful. I’ll pick up some Krylon and see how it goes.
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IIRC it was 3 decent coats
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regular skateboards don’t have breaks…
that shit is fucked up …
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Damn, that’s way more than I can do! Impressive!
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Welp.
I fell pretty hard today…
Took the Flux out on a lunch break ride.
Gorgeous sunny cool spring day!!!
I am probably 10 miles in going through this little trail connector.
I turn a 90 degree corner I go really slow for and I have a clear straight away with a slight uphill.
So I start accelerating pretty good for that and…
All of the sudden
I am getting bucked off the board,
I do a little dance on the deck,
the deck keeps going,
My fleet fly up.
I slam hard on my ass!!!
and off course.
I am in full gear. Dual axis. Fox Titan Jacket. Full face…
BUT I DIDN’T PUT ON MY BUTT PADS!!!
I remember the exact moment in my room I decided to be lazy. I was putting on my knee brace and said screw it to the butt pad.
Son of a biscuit eater!!!
I rode the 7 miles back home.
sucked.
Siitting on an ice pack.
Shit hurts.
Son of a biscuit eating biscuit eater…
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