Idk, that feels pretty old already to me. At that age you could already enter technical schools and wrench on cars in my area. The focus on STEM these days also helps, especially with middle/high school robotics programs like FRC where itās basically like building an esk8 but more complicated and dangerous, especially whenever pneumatics were involved. We even had CAD classes and a pared down machine shop next to the industrial kitchen classroom in my high school.
Granted, when I was in FRC, I had to teach the younger FTC team to not charge their car battery from the mains using a spool of 24AWG wire, which was fun.
Itās all ones perspective. The internet was barely a thing when I was his age. Ruralāish schools had no such thing as stem, grad standards had barely been introduced. We were barely passed number munchies and Oregon trail(the OG ones) on the decrepit AppleMacs.
Your right though kids(and adults) have mucho information at their fingertips. Yet with all the info/programs out their, not all are equal in their opportunity.
Iām not gonna dog a kid for dipping his toes, no matter how ugly it is.
Iām sure he learned some and didnāt spend much $ along the way.
My daughter has never seen broadcast TV or cable.
She only knows youtube, Hulu, prime, Netflix, binge, Plex. Never felt the pain of waiting hours for your favourite show.
I think you and i have had the same train of thought. I think Iām going to risk sealing on the wire insulation rather than the connector directly.
What did you use to cement the connectors to the enclosure? You think a closed cell foam gasket will be enough to go right over top, or are you going to try to cut out a section around your connector bank (lol)?
Iām really curious to see your writing diagram. All the accessories
I was gonna do this, but then I was reading the waterproofing thread, and @b264 advised against doing so, instead to do this. I said fuck it. Iāve seen the conditions that guy rides in, and if it works for him, thereās probably some gravity in his methodology.
So with enough JB weld to make Brian proud, I made that mess. Iāve had to redo all my connectors, and Iām yet to see how well itāll fit on the board now
Going to use butyl tape to seal everything up, so thinking a thin bit about that section should be enough. Weāll see.
So it tooks me a while to understand what was happening here.
First of all i saw an half cm gap between baseplate and hanger (on the oposite side) and was not able to figure how comes it bended this much without breaking the kinping.
Then after all i took my callipers to double check this āmiracleā, it happears that all of the external dimensions were the same as the other truck.
At this point i got really confusedā¦
thatās only by chance that i saw the other side of the trucks when checking my motors after my daily comunte :
whatās happend is the brass part between the baseplate and the hanger broke in pieces due to the amount of torque,
That let the hanger in direct contact with the baseplate, it grinded a good 5mm of (steel ?) metal.
Thatās a freaking miracle it didnāt broke yet
o yeah and a tight fade 
