I filled my Torque boards Pneumatic wheels up with 50g slime today. It did NOT balance the vibrating rear wheel at all. And now i have a tire filled with slime that is impossible to balance. 
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Nice. 
Also I doubt slime will help with a puncture in such small tires.
My approach to balancing:
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buy extra tires, some will be oval
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mount on rims, bin out the oval ones, they will never balance (some sideways wobble is acceptable)
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gravity-balance with weights, use bearings with seals removed and light oil for best results, doesnât need to be absolutely perfect, just 80% there
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sticking velcro/dualock on the rims and weights helps moving them around and finding the right place
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fill each tube with 40-50 grams of slime, easy to measure on kitchen scales
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Slime work great for the goatheads thorns we have in california.
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Slime makes me able to ride near the unholy amount of blackberry bushes around here. Pre-slime it was a guaranteed flat or two.
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Coughs in polyurethane longboard wheels
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Hiccups in airless 150mm
Strava is really bringing me back down to earth on my little trip in the city, sure felt a lot faster than that
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Itâs not about speed or showboating, itâs about how much you enjoy your skate
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Has anyone ever stuck a thermal pad between their motors and the alu mounts? If not, I feel like this is a real missed opportunity for heat dissipation⌠I mean, youâve basically attached your motors to heat sinks already but without pads or compound itâs doing fuck all. 
Aluminim motor mounts, clamps, and hangers seem effective at spreading stator heat in my experience. Iâm sure a tiny, tiny modicum of thermal compound wouldnât hurt, but I would definitely not put a thermal pad there.
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A little dabâll do ya w that stuff. Next time I move my motors around Iâm gonna throw a few dots of noctua in there.
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Thermal pads are shit, donât use them if you donât have to. Thermal paste is much better, noctua is top notch. 
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Not really unless you have clearance issues
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Even if you did keep them, hard risers are better than soft ones.
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To be fair, that rubber riser is quite hard. I donât recall ever seeing an issue with running matrix and this riser.
They are the only source of damping for those trucks, so youâd likely end up with a slightly harsher ride without them.
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The Lacroix deck has a surprising amount of flex, so I think it will be ok.
In lacroixâs photos, I dont see any riser underneath hypertrucks.
Fair enough. Iâve never run matrix without those risers, so I canât really say how much of a difference they actually make
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Hyper trucks base plate is different shape then mbs. Itâs more mbs including them with their trucks so why not install them.
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