James Bond 007 Spy Board | Arbor Vugenhausen Deck | Custom Griptape! | 97mm White Flywheels | White and Gold Caliber II 50° Trucks | 10s | Vesc w/scilocone conformal coating and copper heatsinks, hybrid setup | 6374 motor sensored | Niel Precision ect

ESK8 Builds
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This one @gaetjen

If you attempt this you must remove all electronics from the flashlight except the led itself

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Ok, update on the strap metal…I thought I had this problem licked for sure. Apparently not. Strap metal broke for whatever reason and the consequences could have been disastrous. I had just buzzed this island circuit I do when I want to speed on the street…all above 30mph and lIke a idiot I had no gear on. Well I did 6 Miles of this only to slow to 5mph at the end(right where I parked luckily like 30 feet away). Anyways the one hole strap broke on the light next to the drive wheel and lodged in the drive gear and completely locked up and threw me off. So glad I was not going 30…

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So the new solution is since I tapped the heads with the threads already, time to send a bolt through the board directly and maybe put a rubber washer between the light and the board.

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Please tell me you at least had a helmet on.

But as to your issue, is it possible to secure the both ends of the clamp? Like a circle clamp? (i think that exists…)

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The piece that broke was not the piece connected to the light. It was the piece connected to the truck. So I’m eliminating the strap altogether and sending a bolt through the board. Yeah I had no gear on. I have all the gear too. I landed right next to these wooden stakes sticking up. I remember thinking man even gear wouldn’t have saved me from those lol. Even low speed wouldn’t have either. Should have had it on either way. Definitely would have sucked much worse at 30

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Ok problem solved (hopefully this solution is more permanent)

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@Lsalt Hi, so do you have a pic of ‘‘spring adjusted’’ tensioner?

I heard you have one for your board, really curious to see how it works and looks :slight_smile:

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Here’s what I wound up doing that works amazing.

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So you basically can leave the belt with very low tension this way. The belt can’t skip the drive gear at all with two pulleys. In fact I road in the rain and the belt didn’t skip. The belt would have to break.

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@Lsalt how has your last “solution” held up with the bolts through deck tapped into the tactical light heads with rubber in between?

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+1, I want to hear more about this build.