🖼 Reply to “Pictures and nothing else” thread 2023

That’s fucking crazy lol

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I’d say that’s a well deserved upgrade

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Congratulations dude.

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Thank you! Been 683 days since the channel was created! It’s all up and on from here. Very excited for the future

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Lmao oops

@Mikenopolis I thought we were in the replies thread because of the emoji lol

Is that a rock in there or a piece of gum? Also please explain how there was a hole in the first place because that seems so strange

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It’s for a set screw.

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ooooh that makes way more sense than having a belt pulley that is hollow aluminum/ whatever other metal they might use. Mine don’t use set screws in the side like that so I didn’t realize that was an option :person_facepalming: :rofl:

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More gum like…

I will send it to the lab to verify…

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Why send it to a lab when you have a mouth? :thinking:

please don’t actually try to eat it

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How does it taste?

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Future Motion’s lawyers are absolutely ecstatic right now. Between this and the CPSC they are going to be rolling in Bentleys by the end of the year.

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with a fan connector charge port :smiley:

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Link??

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Hmmmmmmm👀 would it be worth buying?

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I would wait for reviews but if you want a DIY one wheel its the only option so only you can decide if it’s worth it.

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…you know you can just etch the black anodizing off with some drain cleaner, yeah? Just making sure that’s not what you were going for.

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@Martymane are these painted or powdercoated? Trying to find someone local to do some powdercoat and some of the prices are nuts

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I forgot I had some acetone before I sanded it all off, but also I don’t even know if it would have removed it at all. I’d also still need to redo the letters on the side since all they did was use a laser to remove the paint to put that logo there.

Sanding after removing the paint would still need to be done as well to ensure that the spray paint I use has a nice surface finish. The final surface finish on the aluminum under the paint was not good enough to be able to use glossy enamel paint on it with a good outcome. It was fine for the rough truck bed liner-eqsue black paint though since that stuff hides flaws very well.

For the sake of science, I will test out the acetone in the areas where the bearings and bushing sits in. If it works it means I won’t need to tape them off when spraying the primer and paint. The area won’t be seen so if the surface finish is crap it won’t really matter anyway

Edit: also not going to lie it is very satisfying and pleasant to sand them down anyway. If I was worried about speed I would get out my orbital sander at the risk of messing up the shape in some areas and at the cost of my skin or gloves too probably.

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