there are places that rent these things out… I guess for a big batch a few hundred dollars a day might be worth it. I don’t know logistics of any of this though, manufacturing, getting it… dunno, just know that these are available for rent and apparently it’s a business.
Edit: oh huh! here
hmm… curious… I’d like to test something but these things put out ionizing radiation so look out!
Will replace one motor mount, but not both when they both are bent… crazy to me that a company will lose customers over something so minuscule. Have 2 guys in our esk8 group alone that have this issue with your mounts and you don’t stand behind your products. Instead of do the right thing and replace them, you’d rather save a few bucks and lose several of us ever shopping there again. Bold strategy cotton… let’s see if it pays off.
I just ended up buying new motor mounts from @Janux-esk8. I don’t know how common this is but a friend sent me this screenshot the other day. I’m not sure if even crossbars would help
I’d say those mounts are just too slim for those lengths and that size motors. This paired with maybe not proper belt tension will bend them super easy.
I also would take care about this corner
Lets be honest here the cross member is far too close to the truck to be effective. It should be as close to the motors as possible but that said I have 2 sets of og reverse mounts which have never bent with my own cross bar hack and one set without which has also never bent.
Doesn’t surprise me too much. I can see mine flex when i brake heavy. I’ve been meaning to order a cross brace to see if it helps. I’d rather not run the motor pulley on the end of the shaft and they may be necessary with the crossbar.
Mine are bent too, also on both of them part of the metal is cracked right past the brace. Noticed it about a week ago. Not as bad as some I’ve seen in this thread, just hoping they hold out since I’ve got another set of their trucks coming in the mail
Now that I’m looking closer it looks like the weak point is where the extra screw holes are and the crack goes right through to the other side before it hits the thicker piece of metal
Well damn, that sucks to hear… Considering canceling my order for their trucks if the overall thing seems unsafe since I’d be locked into the system as a whole. They’ve been solid on customer service for me so far so I’d hate to ditch them, but it seems like a widespread problem
I almost wonder if the crossbar creates some of the problem here since it isolates the motor section from the rest of the unit instead of letting the whole mount flex/share the load.