Motor Mount of Choice and pulleys

https://psychotiller.com/product/surfrodz-tkp-trucks-with-thick-custom-quick66-mounts

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That’s the one :metal:

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@bimmer, hey maybe your next project could be WHEEL PULLEYS :wink: For: ABEC11, Clones, Kegel/Popoca and MBS If you manage to make them without the need of bolts and truck modifications, that would be very nice :slight_smile: BTW, @marcmt88 mounts are very good, i have custom one from him.

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…more than you can imagine: my future Evolve mounts by @marcmt88, coming next week.

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So you can have no bolts or no truck modification not both.

With the TB 218mm trucks and the Evolve Supercarve trucks, you can have both. What you can’t have at this point, is aluminum wheel pulley and no bolts. We need that badly

Sorry to derail your motor mounts thread

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Why the adversion towards bolts?

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The bolts create torque on the bearings in the way they are not strongest.

Putting a bearing inside the pulley and allowing it to ride on the axle transfers ONLY tangential/rotational force to the wheel and not radial forces and it’s guaranteed the pulley is perfectly centered, causing less belt skipping under some conditions.

Also it just makes changing or cleaning the wheel and/or bearings super-easy. Basically just a regular longboard wheel.

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Totally right, Brian.

Why, in the name of God, no one has ever come yet with decicated (ABEC, Kegel, MBS, Clone, etc) full aluminum wheel pulley (whith sprockets) designed for the esk8 DIY market?

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Because machine hours for a lathe with powered tools isnt cheap.

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Stupid thingiverse plastic tutti -frutti generic pulleys that require half a dozen bolts, retainers, half a pulley, a 3D printer, computer files, a planet alignment, a solar eclipse…Geeeezzzz!

Metroboard sells almost the thing we need. It’s so close, in fact, that I was thinking about modifying it with a drill press. It’s the only aluminum insert pulley I’m aware of, and it doesn’t come in Kegel-style.

The only problem with it is it fills one of the wheel bearings with blank. So instead of 2 wheel bearings and one pulley bearing, this has 1 wheel bearing and 1 pulley bearing. That introduces radial forces again like bolts would and causes noise inside the wheel as the insert slips back and forth.

Plus, it’s 19mm (for an 18mm belt) wide instead of 16mm (for a 15mm belt) although that can easily be fixed with a belt/disc sander

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Yeah, but his owner is so affraid DIY users will get all his inventory and eventually ending up messing with his ‘market strategy’ :roll_eyes:, is almost impossible to get those pulleys if you don’t show prove of beign a previous Metroboard owner, a US born american, two passport photocopies, your California ID, last three phone bills, your bank statement and prove that you are not an alien from the Andromeda galaxy.

Luckily for me, I have not one but two Metroboards :stuck_out_tongue:

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Are there trucks with an axle long enough for the added 7-9mm?

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Torqueboards 218 truck and Evolve Supercarve trucks have extended axles!

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Metroboard pulley…

No comprende, bro? You mean long axles like the TB 218 mm truck, I think those axles are longer than most.

Its not like its rocket science to design the pulley I just wouldn’t really be willing to source these on my dime as I personally only see these solving a luxury problem. If enough people want these I could design them and get some quotes and groupbuy these.

No @BoostedBuilder, Evolve Super Carves don’t come with longer axles. They are in fact kinda short. Like 32 mm. Whilst TB axles are 47 mm each.

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