Electrical Tape Saved the Day, AGAIN!

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If anyone knows a brand name to snag skids of the stuff, hook me up.

The top hose clamp on a one steel ta front hub (1800w) snapped off, the lower hose clamp I thought was good but it broke instantly. Then I remember this tradesman on transit seeing me do something to my ebike with its electrical tape and Gorilla tape taped wires everywhere and tape obviously stragically placed, for wire routing ;) No full pics. Ingognito now with the surge of diyers around.



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Hills, I pushed it more then I should of, self suffering was the motive for that moment.
reverse order
wot no pedaling 5-6% for 50' to home
steady state on throttle, 12% slight curve 150'
steady state on throttle, 3% for 200'
ta broke, 245lbs 1500wh of battery leaf 1500w, 1800w wot on more then half 52v 15ah Grintech battery.


Enjoy



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As you can see it did move a bit, as the steel ta was inline with fork. The pressure I applied while wrapping the tape around and slipping the roll between the fork and hub, was very minimal as I had no tape leverage if you know what I mean.

The hill it broke on, I was going slow, up slight hill. When I heard the snap, looked down at the front fork with hub motor, I saw the axle did spin 45 degrees as the ta stayed on, pinching the phase wires a bit, but when tension released the cogging stopped noting the cogging is bad, phases touching, pop fets easy. More inspection tomorrow, its been a 60 mile day and luckily I was almost home, about 4 miles away in the river valley where its all park.


Other escapades with general usage electrical tape in my riding tool kit, has been with phase wires breaking loose of the solder joint. I had pliers to snip and twist and tape and carefully, and slowly, with calculated pedaling, get home.

Another escapade, stock generic controller battery connector melted, used stock general usage electrical tape to fix that.
Same thing, but on the battery side, not controller side. This was a bit more tricky. I had to still use the xt90 bullet bowl for solder which I had to use my electrical tape "Fu" to align and afix everything so it wouldnt move, fun times broke down on the side of the path or road. Guess I should have bought a $4000 Trek ebike, thats gotta be the Toyota of that sector, not the Chevies or Dodges that rust out in 5 yrs time that your always fixing, skills to learn.
 
Found it, the electrical tape is 3M Temflex 165, vinyl electrical tape.

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b5005209026/

https://www.grainger.com/search?searchQuery=3M+Temflex+165&searchBar=true

Be nice to try out the really expensive 3M SUPER 33+ or half off 33+ price the 3M SUPER 88.
 
Glad you were able to make it home! also keep some high-strength zip ties on hand, they also help when you’re in a pinch. A long time ago I snapped a chain stay on a mountain bike trail and was able to splint it with a wood stick and multiple zip ties lol it actually held and I was able to pedal all the way home.
 
The strongest adhesive tape that this old geezer has ever encountered is fiberglass reinforced packing tape. It is commonly used to secure cardboard packing materials to heavy material during shipping.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096NCPBR8
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y9PFBCN
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001NBR7BU

Fair Warning:
If you wrap it around something then you will likely have to cut it to get it off :)
 
I went to a concert couple miles down the street on Sunday everything's fine the police let you bring whatever liquor you wantI guess because we're civilized
I went to my bike and it wouldn't work found a melted phase wire connection. So ask someone for tape I had to settle for a Band-Aid yes just a regular finger Band-Aid taped it up it made it up the hill and back home
Do what you got to do
 
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