🖼 Reply to “Pictures and nothing else” thread_2020_summer

malJohann · June 30, 2020, 2:10am

Looks awesome, was just concerned for a moment there.

kook · June 30, 2020, 2:11am

mark center and then drill off center… shakes my head…

malJohann · June 30, 2020, 2:14am

Also, if it’s not a state secret, can I have a link for these 155-90 (?) beauties you’ve got there? Wait, are those the Metroboard tyres?

kook · June 30, 2020, 2:17am

metroboard one-fiddy-fives…

if’n you wanna order 5… beacuse ordering 4 tires is E-stuupid…

from Ian:

Just add this other item to the cart

But mention in order notes you want an extra 155 mm tire + tube instead.

and tubes are awesome not the typical “clever paper-thin” inner tubes!!!

rafaelinmissouri · June 30, 2020, 2:51am

Yeah. So that is tight…

Mine was not like that…
It moved that way mid ride… And just like last week my wife had to come get me mid ride.
She loves that!

Tightening truck mounts is hard.

b264 · June 30, 2020, 2:52am

I did it this way

Avoiding belt slip

Alignment – the best way I’ve found to perfectly align belts is

get motor mount (without motor) snug on hanger, then loosen a tiny bit so it moves

install wheel and pulley with no speedring (washer) between the hanger and inner bearing.

push motor mount flush up against wheel pulley so they are touching each other

keep those held tightly together while you tighten motor mount clamps

make sure mount is flush against, and touching, the wheel pulley, and there is no gap or misalignment

finish tightening mount clamp all the way

make sure again that mount is flush against, and touching, the wheel pulley, and there is no gap or misalignment

when you’re all done, take the wheel and pulley back off, add a single 1mm speedring (washer) and just like that, the pulley will be perfectly aligned and 1mm away from the motor mount plate

if you need it further away when you are doing tensioning, then add more washers

And also make sure your pulleys are concentric and don’t wobble at all as @taz mentioned. That’s super important.

Except I used a 0.5mm washer

Boardnamics · June 30, 2020, 2:53am

What order did you tighten the bolts?

It’s big one first then the 4 small ones

rafaelinmissouri · June 30, 2020, 2:54am

That is how i do as well… But usually a few speed rings.

b264 · June 30, 2020, 2:54am

And to add what @Boardnamics said, I only tightened one of the 4 bolts until the big bolt was tight

rafaelinmissouri · June 30, 2020, 2:55am

Yep.
Big bolt. Then little bolts.

Angle is kind of low and hits my driveway sometimes when I leave the house and am too lazy to pick up the board.

So probably got jarred

rafaelinmissouri · June 30, 2020, 3:00am

With the 0.5mm washer do you now have the rings around the motor pulleys

b264 · June 30, 2020, 3:02am

The motor pulley is all the way up against the mount plate and there is even a tiny spot worn down into the plate where it used to be rubbing before all the aluminum got rubbed away.

Tamatoa · June 30, 2020, 3:13am

That place looks serious, I hope you or whoever you are with will be fine.

rafaelinmissouri · June 30, 2020, 3:14am

Other side looks good.

@Boardnamics
See… They have taken more than a couple hits…

rafaelinmissouri · June 30, 2020, 3:17am

Fosterqc · June 30, 2020, 3:17am

It makes me nervous how many terrible error ridden listings for battery chargers there are. Even worse when the mistakes make it into the actual product. Maybe I’m biased because I have got multiple faulty chargers.

ZachTetra · June 30, 2020, 3:18am

Do I try and refund it for a better one?

b264 · June 30, 2020, 3:19am

If they don’t know what an ampere is, you should not be using their chargers.

Fosterqc · June 30, 2020, 3:20am

Maybe their printer just forgot the decimal

should be 2,000 obv not 2000

ZachTetra · June 30, 2020, 3:21am

I mean it’s Amazon, easy refund…just gotta get pants and go outside…damn