Enertion Injection Molded 36T Wheel Pulley

that’s my biggest concern too- I guess though since you can buy like three of these for the price of one aluminum one, it wouldn’t be horrible to replace.

This is awesome! When can we expect these, and about how much per pulley? The concept of a bearing in the pulley seems to make it just plug-and-play, which is great

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I’m not going to test that, but i think it might be a bit of a stretch.

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Will these wheel pulleys be used on the 2nd batch of Raptors?

Some of the 2nd batch is already built using aluminium pulleys. So I would say these are going to be appearing on the 3rd batch and beyond.

for what its worth @trbt555 @cmatson I find that after hundreds of kilometers its the smaller motor pulley that tends to wear most. I guess only time will tell.

My current recommendation is steel for the motor pulley and glass reinforced nylon for the wheel pulley.

I tend to think aluminium is just a bit soft, it eventually wears out. definitely no aluminium for the motor pulley as it has 3 to 4 times the amount of belt contact per tooth when compared with wheel pulley.

Nylon is extremely abrasive resistant especially with glass fibres

That should help mitigate at least some damage from the wheel pulley rubbing on the motor mount’s length adjustment bolts in the event that the mount shakes loose. I’ve seen pretty severe gouging when that happens, especially when there’s any sort of wobble in the wheel pulley. I’ve got some on my bench right now that look like somebody took a grinder to them.

Hey @onloop, I noticed that your 36t metal pulleys aren’t in stock anymore on your website. Do you have anymore left?

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On the really off chance that I can find calibers with longer axles, whats the axle length needed here? I notice you have 12mm and 9mm wide, any plans for 15mm? Its overkill, but on a 12t to 36t overkill is def advised IMHO.

EDIT: I see in another post that the 15mm wide pulley would cause too many problems, between having to get a longer axle and the space lost to put the motor mount itself it seems at this time its unfeasible to get this out of a injection molded setup.

I’ve got some 12mm wide alum ones

you can’t find normal skatetrucks with a long axle, i had to get these custom made.

How much? And how do I pay for it?

Yeah I figured I wouldnt be able to find any lol If you have them custom made, would you consider offering any other colors up than blue? I am making a blue themed build next, but after that is the red/orange one.

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I dont think i will ever offer different colours…

just get blue ones then spray paint them.

OMFG did I just look like the biggest idiot ever?!?!?!? lol

cannot blame you one bit for not wanting to do different colors, would be such a hassle. My bad on not thinking of spray paint before. I was literally spray painting my desk last night and everything…

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How much? And how do I pay for it?

@onloop just adding a +1 for other colors. Even just black, which matches everything and is the color of stealth and heavy metal and ninjas.

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spray paint would work really well honestly… especially with it being a plastic based pulley.

think about it: just adding one color would add a whole other set of things he’d have to keep in stock, and each order would have to be double checked to have the right pulley-

it seems like more of a pain than what’s it worth (from a business standpoint) when you can spray paint it black and still have the rest of the can left over for the enclosures of your ninja board.

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@cmatson I see your point, but part of business growth is to identify customer demand and then respond to it. This is especially true as a business grows! @onloop is one of the most savvy designers in esk8, I’m certain that he could produce parts in multiple anodized or plastic colors and manage the blue\black\silver options in the ordering process.