I was talking about phillips 
thankfully I live in a place where we use a logical system of measurement
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Sandblasting is a great way to cover up machining defects, but I refuse this for my parts
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isānt there a guy building trucks just like these in our country !? Hi-speed boarding is what he is doing.
I will have a look-see and get back to you. Iām surprised you asking because i thought these were actually designed and made by a German dudeā¦
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- machining marks are ugly
- machining marks are beautiful
- machining marks are beautiful only if done well
- looks donāt matter much or any
- sandblasted looks nice because of no machining marks
- sandblasted looks nice, but not because it removes machining marks
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I prefer sand blasted, but only if it is taken to an appropriate finish that works well for my primer since I will end up adding custom colors to most of my parts anyway 
The finish left from machining isnāt great for paint since it is too shiny most of the time.
Iām getting BOTY 2023 āesk8 innovationā category vibes.
Although, sadly you wonāt have a build thread for me to nom 
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Why not vapour blasted?
This is the finish on my 80 year old Harley with sand cast aluminum after vapour blasting. And it still looks exactly the same years later
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Something about it looks a bit off but I think you could probably get away with putting a primer on it without too many surface issues. ignore the fact of whether or not painting it would be a good idea . It is really close to what my surface finishes are before painting but something about it bothers me 
Maybe it is the texture added from when it was casted?
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iāll actually keep up with this one lmao
Yeah not for everyone I guess. Advantage is itās going to be more durable than painted or polished finishes. I might try it on a set of trucks sometime
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So you sent it pretty hard there eh dudeā¦
I would love to see a finish like that on a set of trucks.
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oh my god ā¦ Cat lovers are melting here 
very 
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Iām still working on getting durability as high as possible for painted parts. The first time I bought primer I could only find the universal stuff and turns out it isnāt super strong for aluminium and leads to paint getting chipped off easier, but that could also be because the hanger I painted and has seen actual use only got one application of the colored paint.
For more recent stuff, I bought aluminium specific primer that is supposed to be better but havenāt been able to test the part it is on yet. Even when I knew it existed and had seen it in the store before it was still so hidden that I almost ended up going to another store to buy some because I couldnāt find it. 
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What the very fuck? Thats the first carbon ive seen snapped, thats not common right?
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Yeah pretty rare, I see someone post about it (here, reddit, discord) probably every month or two but thatās nothing compared to how many of these they sell. Sometimes cars, sometimes just bump. This is very well known in communities that use carbon frames, especially mountain biking, carbon fiber is extremely susceptible to tiny imperfections that can compromise its strength because of how precise you have to be with carbon manufacturing to achieve proper strength for applications like this. Because of the nature of Chinese manufacturing, there isnāt exactly world-class QC, but I would not worry about it if you have a carbon deck, just check it every once in a while because the cracks usually start small.
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Yip yip!
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jw - whyād you go onyx? You seem to do a good amount of surron-ish trails
to each is own! just wondering
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It was a toss up for me but it came down to ultimate purpose.
I havenāt been able to skate nearly as often recently with new baby and taking on extra consulting work and itās really been bumming me out. My trip to work is 7 miles each way but I hit some stretches of road that are 45-50mph. I was leaning sur ron for a while because I have a phenomenal off road track near me through the woods that they just expanded.
But then I kept coming back to āyou often donāt have enough time to skate the park attached to your neighborhoodā¦ Do you really think youāll get more free time to go to the bike park?ā
So for now, Iām getting comfortable with how heavy the onyx is and getting it to speed. I had next to zero experience with motorcycle like objects before this so taking it over 50 still has me white knuckling.
The ultimate goal is to be able to ride it back and forth to work on nice days as a crutch to my esk8 addiction. Iāve been mapping out paths that will be safest for me (least traffic / big intersections).
Red are the fast and most dangerous roads
Blue is normal way I drive to work
Yellow is a pretty safe rural route
Orange is probably the safest but a bit longer of a trip.
I would absolutely love a lightweight emtb one day to lazily shred through the mtb trails but the onyx has been doing fine for average woods walking trails. The sur ron is like 110 lbs, onyx rcr is 150ish, the onyx lzr is only 40lbs so I feel like I could whip that thing through switchbacks with no problem.
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