I’ve suggested this multiple times as a joke but I’m starting to think it would actually be cool
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Oil slick finish is no joke around here.
I’m not personally a huge fan, I mean it’s really cool, but not my style.
If I was selling, well, anything really, I would include that as a color choice. Along with black and raw. And red just for LHB.
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Metro board finally selling their dkp trucks. Hopefully they can get a black or raw option in the future.
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NGL. I like dese tings.
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Is it weird that I want to build a cow-themed board? Griptape would obviously be black and white cow-hide. Headlights would be light blue like cows in the dark
I could make the horn sound into a cow bell. Other sound effects would be moo and “got milk?” “He needs some milk”. Would be easy with black tires, drive train. I might name the cow Bessie 
imagine saying you commute by cow 
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Can you elaborate on that? What’s the dependency?
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without gear drives I don’t think 100’s are a good idea
Yeah, I have a working theory, with some others input as to well per their experience.
So 100mm length motor cans are long, I think we can all agree.
With regards to power transmission, there is a fundamental difference in the forces a motor sees between belts and GD’s. The main one I’m concerned with here being belt tension, there is no tension on gear drives, a gear is meshed or it isn’t. The tension belts create when applying force to the wheel pulley causes a moment along the shaft. The longer the motor the greater that moment and the more force the bearings and shaft sees. the only attachment point of the motor is face, so you’ve now added 20-25% length to the can and therefor increased those forces proportional to length squared
Many boutique board builders have been using the maytech 6389-96’s yet none of them seem to have the failure rate like lacroix did, although I think that’s been partially resolved as of late. But biobaords and kaly only use gear drives and seem to have considerable less motor failues, specifically those related to the large outer can bearing which is the usual cause of death for those MT motors.
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I would be willing to bet that it’s because they’ve sold considerably less units.
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Also a distinct possibility, but I’m not sure I’ve seen a single post about Lacroix motor failure for those attached to their GD’s, more issues with the first generation GD’s than motors on them.
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For sure, not discounting your theory, but the comparative metric is likely a little skewed.
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100% agree. I had this self same discussion with @Bavioze. I run MT6396s on a chain drive, which also avoids that off-axis force and the things have never had anything even approaching overheating issues.
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hi im a newbie builder and i belive ive made a bit of a cock up as ive upgraded my xenith to 5.2 which apparently is a very bad thing, however i have noticed that there is an option to select a bin file in the xenith ui, i was wondering if someone may have a copy of 23.46 or 5.1 they can send over to me so i can try and upload it, i do hope its not bricked
Wait I could be wrong but why exactly is that a bad thing?
What makes you think it is bricked?
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Just saw a video on cold shrink vs heat shrink, has anyone tried cold shrink before? If so do you like it better than heat shrink?
Has no real place in hobby electronics. No need to re-invent any wheels.
Marine grade heat shrink is also great because of the sealing glue, cold shrink never really has that. Guess you could slather conformal coating on whatever you’re cold shrinking and let it ooze out… but that’s just dumb lol
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The advertisement made it look legit, good points, damn marketing!
basically a lot of product, like really a lot
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flex tape
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Hate to crush your dreams here, but those aren’t cow headlights.
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