I was so excited for these because of the 40mm shaft, RIP 
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how come you need such a long shaft?
Trampa OBD - thick mount and a 20mm wide pulley
Got it, thanks! Cutting it down to size is no problem, but making a groove would be. I totally get that it could cause problems for people using pulleys and that’s likely a much larger market segment for you. I’ll keep my fingers crossed and see what you decide for the next version! 
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I might have to try, these motors are super sweet! Hopefully shafts aren’t too expensive for me to make mistakes.
Increase the price of each motor by the cost of 1 shaft exactly and offer 2 skews 
(Could even include the second shaft along with the motor for those that might want to repurpose their motors later on)
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Haha well the shaft has to be installed by the factory and should never be removed, so the decision needs to be made in advance or I have to order more variants ontop of all the different kv which already sucked.
And then theres the issue that the minimum quantity of shafts needs to be ordered, but we don’t have the financial resources to do so (hopefully things will change as Radium grows, but that also depends heavily on how big the eskate market actually is)
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So if im correct the V6 will be an 8mm shaft, 30mm long without a circlip groove right?
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Yeah thats the current design. I’ve also added quite a smooth taper where the shaft transitions to 10mm for strength reasons so that may be another reason the circlip system wouldn’t work anyway as the shaft will expand the shims/spacer like a mandrel (you’ll know what I’m talking about if you’ve used wheel spacers on the inside of matrix 2 trucks)
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Silly question, but with these being your own motors and all – why not have the 30mm pattern already present in the motor face? 
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Theres no room to add them unfortunately. Its all really tightly packaged, stuff in the way underneath where it looks like they could go.
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Plus they work for other motors too 
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Would I need an adapter to fit these onto my hypertrucks?
if you’re using the lacroix motor mounts yeah. Those use the less common 30mm pattern
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Gotcha, just found the adapters plates on the website
Catches me by surprise sometimes 4wd exists
And then there’s Tony, sending it at mach jesus with two motors since his front wheels won’t touch the ground anyways
On an unrelated note, i’m debating adding on that 20 deg height matched baseplate to my order, just gotta think about it for a bit haha.
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So…
People who received their motors, what are your thoughts on them?
And when is the next batch expected to be ready? 
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Good timing. Taking orders for next batch shortly. They wont be V6 yet but have some upgrades from my V6 design, as well as some reliability upgrades.
We wont be getting many in this time, so if anyone is keen and doesn’t want to miss out you can pm me and I’ll start making a list
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