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my frame has super limited steering angle but it's not an issue at all during actual off-road riding. and when i need to do a u-turn i just skid turn instead, super easy to do on these lightweight bikes even on asphalt

best combination is an ultracompact "card" type dmm w/ fixed leads so you don't accidentally leave it in the 10A socket :lol: plus a DC clamp meter. make sure it's DC, cheaper ones can only measure AC

just built a flat trailer. very lightweight. thin-wall 2x2 frame (1.2mm wall). spoked wheels with square profile motorcycle tires just need wheel chocks, rivnut them onto the frame. could probably carry 2 or 3 surron-type ebikes

cordless is the way to go. i'm powering this one with a ryobi battery. you could solder a 12ga wire to an XT90 with this

good forks use bushings made from teflon-coated copper alloys that are splash-lubricated (or open bath) so there's an oil seal as well as dust wiper. some even have foam rings cheap forks like in the youtube vid have bushings made of plastic and are grease lubricated. upper and lower bushings...

seems like they changed the shaft a bit...

i built this w/ mild steel :lol: you could definitely build a lighter frame w/ chromoly using thinner wall tubing which is more difficult to weld, may need TIG w/ less readily available filler rods mild steel is easy to weld w/ MIG using off-the-shelf wires (er70s6). mild steel w/ 1.2mm wall...

yeah get gas. i started off w/ fluxcore and it was just a waste of time. just had this small 15lb co2 tank refilled last week for Php300 or US$5 :shock: lasted more than a year w/ the kind of hobby-type welding that i do the welder is the cheapest one i could get php8000 or US$145 then get...

there's a little bit of regen when you release the throttle. then i use a momentary push button switch to activate stronger regen (low-brake wire (gray/black) and ground (black wire))

super nice build! funny we have the exact same 0 to 60 time

thermal paste is supposed to fill the micro voids between 2 flat smooth surfaces with as thin a layer as possible. so viscosity and particle sizes have to be low to allow it to spread and for excess material to squeeze out if necessary don't be deceived by w/mk ratings. a block of silver has...

everything i've read says that pure co2 is hotter and has better penetration. and that argon mixes produce narrow penetration so maybe that narrowness is actually not a good thing :lol: anyway pure co2 works OK for the stuff i do like this swingarm. super cheap, i refilled my 15lb tank last...

haha no, actually you get better penetration w/ pure co2 than w/ c25 mixed gas ever wondered why 6010/6011 dig so much? it's the cellulose flux that generates, you guessed it, co2

this MIG is Php8000 (us$160). also known as Sherman MIG Speedy 200. i'm using a small co2 tank (100% co2). thin 0.6mm (0.023") wire is great for building ebike frames and such. yeah welding w/ gas is so much better especially for thinner materials. fluxcore tends to blow through the thin stuff...