I share this sentiment… any chance this is in the works yet? 
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WIth the Flipsky 7070s I ended up having to cut the D profile on the shafts down another 3 or 4mm to allow the D-profile gear to go down far enough. I could have used the circular 10mm gears but definitely preferred using the D-profile.
The new motor gears Newbee is producing are definitely a little bit easier to get the grub screws into.
My order number is 1692. Why don’t you give me the shipping information? I have asked you of that in several times. Why don’t you give me the response?
I just heard from a friend that he’s been on national holiday and hasn’t checked his website orders in a while. You should be hearing from him soon. I’m in the same boat 
When did you email him mate - you respond like he stole a million dollars from you and didn’t deliver your custom private jet
Also holidays over there. Esk8 is full of being patient, especially with smaller vendors
If you ordered gear drive, he is out of stock of the wheel adapter plates right now and the factory is closed for the national holiday week.
i personally sent him an Email on the 24th of September - asking “6” Questions (about availability and compatibility).
One of the questions was regarding my flipsky Motors, to make sure we are speaking about the same thing i even added a picture of it and mentioned the specs of the shaft - stepped down from 10mm to 8mm.
I did get an Email response back from him on the 25th but only asking if my Motor shaft is using a 8mm shaft, which as you recall from the row above are infos i had already added to my initial mail. I did reply to him on the 26th with that information and since then haven’t heard back.
So maybe he was busy, took some more days off which of course is totally fine and well deserved.
*Just sharing my personal experience.
I did however end up concluding my business with a different vendor.
During two weeks I didnt get any message from Newbee. I sent email, DM and chat on web site. I can wait for it for a month if he said it would take some time to get parts, but he ignored my messages intentionally. He made me think so like that. It is a kind of rude for me.
We don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes, let’s not assume things.
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In my experience, he replies much faster if you message him on Facebook messenger. I’ve had emails never answered but messenger messages get responded to day of or next day in rare circumstances.
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Anyone know why I’m getting slightly more resistance when rotating the wheel one way vs the other? Happens on both gear drives. There is a slight grinding noise.
Don’t think it’ll be an issue, but this doesn’t happen on my other set of 4gs drives.
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The grinding noise sounds from motor? Could you try rolling the gear drive without the motor on ?
Without the motor (and motor pinion) there isn’t any noise. It seems like the friction is coming from where the motor pinion makes contact. Also for what it’s worth, both drives made the noise in the same direction (clockwise).
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Can i ask is your motor is steped down shaft? Might be the pionion didn’t seat all the way down to the motor mouting plate. So it is scratching the gear drive cover.
Try applying 4* m4 *1mm wahser inbetween the motor mounting plate and gear drive…see if the noise still
The motor pinion sits all the way down. I dont think anything is scratching the gear drive cover because the noise only happens when rotating the wheel in one direction (not both).
I did a test ride and checked for the noise again after…and it was gone. Not entirely sure what it was, but it seems fine now even when rotating by hand.
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Wouldn’t aluminum or other metals be a better choice here, to conduct heat from the motor face into the gearbox housing rather than insulate it? I’ve made spacers in the past and always use aluminum and tell the user to put thermal paste between the faces.
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Actually, carbon fiber is heat conduct too…wasn’t that good as metal, but performance not bad at all.
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I received my 4GS from this newest batch and it doesn’t have the “Newbee 4GS” engraved on the enclosure anymore. The install guides I watched mentioned making sure that text wasn’t upside down during install to ensure that the left and right units were correct.
Since this new batch doesn’t have that text and I don’t see any left and right designators, does it matter which gear drive we put on the left and right?
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