Joining the train on this both for you guys and for me to have a place to ramble
First a lesson in family history and Portuguese, Marcenaria is a woodwork workshop and my grandpa always did wood work as a hobby, so in the family every little toolshed is know as Marcenaria, don’t know how far back this tradition goes
Second, for the past months I barely had time to work in anything, my eMTB is down for more than two months I think, and the shop is a complete mess. BUT since this morning I’m entering a new phase in my life (that won’t change things that much for now, thanks covid) but I will have considerably more free time to get back at it
Now to some pictures of the mess that things are at the current state, apart from being my shop, it’s where every crap end up
This shape full of old cells has been going from one side to the other for the past 2 years or more, need to find a place to dispose
So, this is my todo list for now
Clean the shop: take everything out, throw away all garbage, wash the floor, organize everything, see if I can fit a extra table to be exclusively used for esk8 duty
Fix the eMTB: the tires that we have on it are crap, got a flat on the first day using them with slime on the tubes I have a new set to replace. Have to redo one of the axles thread that is completely destroyed and use M10, lets see how it goes, hopefully I don’t screw up and have to order a new hanger $$$$. Also install my new pulley design that should be more rigid and concentric with wheel
Make a 6S4P quick swapable battery pack from a old 10S3P NCR18650B pack I have here. The goal is to be used as range extender on the eMTB and on the eBike. I have a few ideas on how to make the quick swappable part, have to do a few simulations on the design to see if it will work, will be updating here as it goes
Build the eBike: Have all parts here, it’s a mid drive that drives the crank directly by a single stage reduction, more as an assist on hills, I want to go back to riding far all
So that’s all by now, hopefully will start the clean up tomorrow morning
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Will see if I can hook up the GoPro somewhere and do a full time-lapse of the endeavor
Don’t worry, once I start working again I think I can do a 6 beer mess
This is my idea, get everything tidy to bring it on new projects, even if the desire is to lay back and binge watch a bunch of series that I stopped following on the last months
Another important project is to make a board rack and a dedicated place to put my speaker
So everything begins, all floor level stuff take out and now letting a bit of bug spray do it’s work to kill a few spiders that were making me company, they started to get way too comfortable
Part 1 done, tomorrow is to organized all the shelves and bench. Ideally I should each and every box and clean them and throw a lot of things away, but’s not gonna happen at the moment
Now done, with a corner for the boards, and hanger for my riding backpack and more important a shelf partition just for tires, helmets, chargers, remotes and everything that I use eboard and ebike related
Long time I haven’t seen the entire bench at once
Tomorrow I start working on the MTB to make it rideable again, biggest issue is to redo the thread, either it works or I will need to get a new hanger
Printer fixed, it was the power supply that was sagging bellow 12 V and crashing the Arduino, increasing the adjustment to 13.6 V solved thanks skatan, finishing the parts I have to deliver tomorrow in a few minutes
While it goes I started changing the tires from the ones I got from AliExpress, still don’t know if they are the hard ones that last forever, tomorrow I need to wash all plastic parts because they are disgusting from mud, and still waiting for a new bottle of Slime to fill them
Cooking some new wheels assembly with a new pulley design that use just one bolt all the way instead of the crappy brass hex stands I’ve used before, was a pain to assemble
These AliExpress tires looks way meatier than the Trampa Treads I had before
Long story short, long bolts are unobitanium around here, these bolts are used on the Lacroix wheel and Alex sent them with a few other toys a while back, so I had to make a design that worked with them, I wanted to put a washer between the nut and the pulley, but no room, and the thickness of that spoke already is thinner than I would like
Big chance that it will break and I will go flying
The good thing is that is spins perfectly true, and since I’ve also done some mods on my printers, it can finally print perfect circles instead of the a bit oval pulley I’ve been printing for the past years
The steel is absolutely crap in my opinion, I could thread without almost any force, feels like aluminum , they should harden it after threading, I was thinking in doing that, but there is a chance I will damage the hanger with the temperature
