I thought it was kidex or something he heated up and molded to it
Kydex doesn’t have seams though, like fabric. I wonder if there’s another material underneath. Nigh has to be.
That’s some KAMi JUINs shit
The enclosure was from EBS and is ABS covered in epoxy wrapped in leather.
You really wanted to put some Skin in the ESK8 game!
You like those blue trucks with the 7490’s??
I love this.
The heat spreader on the Blue One was also fashioned out of an old aluminum roadsign, that’s why the hole is there.
Reuse & recycle!
Yeah, its good material for experiments. Also, good luck finding a cutting board in my kitchen.
Should have left the scotchlite reflective on it and have a mad max-y rat rod vibe
Yeah real nice. Are they yours?
Soon to be. I have half the board just trying to finish paying the second part. Shouldn’t be more than a month ish! Should be able to put out about 12-13k watts pretty easily:)
Looks like u had quite a fussy customer with all those power leads.
Absolutely spot on
I could still use some sleep…
Cheers @moog
I have looked into it for sure and I would definitely like to experiment with it!
My issue with these ‘experiments’ is that they usually end up being very expensive because i’m a ‘learn by fucking shit up’ kinda guy
I’ve been playing with infusion for a couple of years now and this is the first mold/enclosure that i’ve actually been able to get good, repeatable results with. I shudder to think of how many hours/dollars it’s taken me to get to this point
Now that I am working with this stuff from a ‘business’ perspective, rather than a hobbyist/“fuck around and find out” perspective, i needed to produce this mold in a manner that I had the most confidence would ‘just work’.
I’m very pleased to say that the enclosures were the part of this project that I dreaded the most but they actually turned out to be the part of the project that worked the best and all in I am reasonably happy with the results.
If time/money allows in the future, I may experiment with silicone bagging, but for the time being, I just gotta stick with what I know!
I know what you mean with expensive experiments, I’ve wasted lots of materials learning, best done
when your working for some one else. I used it a while ago and it worked pretty well for a small run of skull caps for stunt men to wear under wigs for hidden protection. Instead of infusion we wet layed it up,
popped a layer of peelply and breether cloth then slapped the silicone on. I think we just used a bit of
petroleum jelly to help it seal. But it was so much less hassle than bagging up each time.
All the best with this, you’re putting a lot of old pro’s to shame, it looks great.
Which motors are these for? (I’m assuming they’re for motors)
These are for the 6485 and 6495 motors I sell, bearings rated for 150c and 40,000 rpm
ocean water?
I know, virtually no metal bearings can handle that