Another in progress build ….
Yo hey what’s up!
Huge thanks to smls for giving this board a new life & very kindly passing it onto me.
This thread I’ve been wanting to create for awhile but have made rather minimal progress
But I’ll share where I started vs how it’s going now
Smls gave me 2 different metroboards
Which was like a Christmas & a half literally.
Both boards needed love forsure but that’s something I have a lot of.
The pathfinder seemingly only needed a replacement hangar to run.
I believe it might’ve needed more attention sooner than later if I just threw that hangar on there and rode it.
I have already spent way to much and I’m in way to much debt so I was working with what I had.
I just threw the metroboard x hangar on it
Which worked great!
I ran it very little because I was out of town working out in arizona. But one only of my trips back I saw that there was aftermarket motor mounts being made for the pathfinder trucks.
Mfg by radium.
So of course I order a set
Only to find that for some reason they never really lined up as anticipated.
Others seemed to have this problem too.
A bit disappointed but no biggie.
I decide to get rid of the pathfinder trucks and throw the metroboard x truck on it.
As they look way cooler imo
Motor spacing was tight and I had to modify (drill out) the spring plate thingy to sort of come close to the standard 44mm pattern.
The metroboard x trucks were designed to use an entirely diff motor that used m5 screws & a different mounting pattern. But I was able to make it work through being careful.
Gosh that board looks great & rides great.
Went Fast forward a bit there
But I basically had to do some weird spacing magic to get this setup to work right. And it still was far from ideal but it ran.
And for a very short amount of time until I took it back apart again and ordered more parts for it 
I liked the belt drive aspect of this board it just went hand in hand with how comfortable it was and felt like a great board to ride around the city without attracting to much attention / disturbing animals and whatnot.
But there is one gripe I have with belts
Because I am a heavier dude. The 15mm wide belts. Skip on me. Especially because I ride pretty aggressively.
So running 20mm wide belts is a must for safety / also so can accelerate harder without worry of loosing power from belt carnage.
You can kinda see that I’m running 20mm wide wheel pulleys right?
So what’s the big deal Alex ?
Slap some wide motor pulleys on and make the change!
Well I wish it was that simple.
The problem I was having is that. The wheel pulleys I was running where spaced so far from the wheel to compensate for the motor shaft on the motor being so short.
This puts the pulleys further away from the tire/wheel and became a problem as any little lip to a driveway the wheel pulleys would catch.
I thought about running two different bearings on my rim to compensate for the stepped truck axle so that the pulley didn’t have to be so far from the rim.
But it still wouldn’t help probably very much considering the pulley was quite near the wheel diameter.
So ordered slightly smaller in diameter wide wheel pulleys from flux motion.
One of my most favorite brands.
I start trying to do a mockup to finalize this in the simplest but most robust way possible as I expect to thrash on this thing hard.
About 45 ideas on how to solve this short motor shaft problem came to mind.
I also had a lot of oversized belts from a past belt driven board that I wanted to use.
Because I wanted to not spend more money on belts.
So I kinda was thinking a double Idler to cinch up the extra length.
I drilled and tapped a m6 threads into the mounts to attach idlers on top & bottom.
Unfortunately belt was still too long even with two idlers per mount.
But I was determined to make it work with what I had.
While I was running the motor pulley previously on tippy end of the motor shaft with a flat spot that I filed down to get the closest I could with the motor pulley to the wheel pulley. I was staring to be real with myself a sort of think of other options
But still being stubborn thought of designing my own idlers that was oversized while I was working out a solution for the other problem.
So I did exactly that.
It basically would have used 3 bearings + 4 m3 screws + nuts to conjoin together and trap the bearings via its inner lip.
Ultimately a Dumb idea especially considering I was going to run a 3d printed part & run it hard.
But anyways I lost all my momentum on this project for quite a while and became pretty clear that should just run the 205kv reachers from my other board 
(They have a longer shaft therefore I could run the wheel pulley just directly to the hub with no spacers and no weird lateral snagging stress on the hub screws.)
This seemed like a great option since those motors were about to be shelved due to changes on the other board.
Still really struggling to push this project along
I finally was down to knock the rust off my Vesc skills utilizing the mobile app.
But was immediately faced with a problem
I put a smaller set of 6455 SKP motors on to just see if I could finagle my way through it
But for some reason couldn’t get past motor detection. I wondered if the maker x Vesc was programmed in a way that was a bit more locked down?
Because I’ve programmed a couple of these exact models of Vescs before and they forsure gave me trouble but not this early on.
Any suggestions idea why it might be coming up with this?
It also had another prompt that was much more repetitive and limiting as far as actions I could take once I was connected as it basically would just crash the app and not connect via Bluetooth for more than 1 second (Bluetooth Vesc mobile is how I learn vesctool is how I was altering it at the time of doing this.)
But I’m kinda at a standstill here
I have a feeling it’s the mobile app but the desktop version of vesctool is a bit intimidating.
I am wondering if there is a way to pull the active Vesc config off the Vesc as a sort of backup before I get in there and start fucking around with it again.
I know I can do it, I’ve done it two other times but everytime I played with these dv6 pros a little bit of my eyebrow hair fell out.
Further Updates soon 
