amberwolf said:I've started the process of putting the STromer Mountain33 motor into the damaged rim out of the HSR3548 wheel. So far, that's just the stages of unlacing both, and testing with 8 spokes (two on each flange in each of four quadrants) to make sure the 88mm spokes are the right length--they seem to be.
I started to get back to this, but that back problem I started with a number of weeks ago has decided to get much worse. Even the little Stromer motor is very very very heavy under these conditions, and hurts too much to lift to get it onto the bucket for lacing....but before I can do that I need to get it back apart to put the thermal sensor in and change the phase/hall cabling out for the good stuff I got from Grin. Can't turn the puller and hold the motor, so....can't lace it up till I can get that part done. (or else just have to unlace it to open it up to do taht work, which would be pretty stupid). I guess that's the one thing I really don't like with the Ultramotor design, is that it doesn't have "covers", but just shell halves with the spoke flanges built in. :/
Regarding my back, I *think* it's the right side S-I joint,
https://www.spine-health.com/video/sacroiliac-joint-dysfunction-video
but it's intense enough when I move the wrong way it's hard to tell exactly where it is, just feels like the whole internal "quadrant" from the point of my right femur below the hip, across the back of my pelvis, up thru the SI area, and back across to the bottom of the pelvis on that side, has a "toothache". Can't feel any "dislocation" or swelling or anything like that in the area. Dunno what's actually causing it, but it feels like bone pain, rather than musculature/etc.
It's fine in many positions, not even an ache, but some are almost unbearable. Getting up from the bed is "interesting" as there is no good way to do it. The only way that actually works is to get on my belly and back up till my legs are off the bed, then push myself up with my hands till I"m sitting with legs folded straight (not crossed) heels under my butt, and grab the vertical posts of a shelf that's next to the bed (with the computer screen and keyboard/etc on it), then haul myself up with only my arms.
Walking is way easier with the cane, but I can hobble without it if I have to, for shorter distances--but I don't think I could get up off the ground or floor without it if I wasn't near something to grab and haul myself up. Been using the metal cart (which has brakes on two wheels) for my job at work as a "walker" while there; it works ok and lets me still do what I need to, though lifting the heavier stuff (right now, more than around 10-15lbs) is a challenge requiring leverage and cleverness. Normally I'd have little problem with stuff up to 50-60lbs, and could easily wrangle stuff up to 100lbs with the leverage and cleverness, but not now.
I wish I could remember what it was I did just before all this started, but that was so many weeks ago that it's lost in all the events since then. I suspect that helping to lift the SB Cruiser into the back of the guy's truck back when I broke the fork in the crash, and/or lifting the front end and dragging it and the broken fork/etc up to and over the high curb right after the crash to get it out of traffic, were the instigators. But I don't know. I have to do so many things by myself, that I shouldn't do alone, that it could've been quite a few things. There's nobody that can help at home; Raine is worse off than I am right now most of the time, and at work there's usually no one available to help, cuz there's usually just a cashier and a manager, and me (separate duties from the rest of the store these days, much better/more fun than the way it's been for the previous 11 years).
Anyway, enough griping...at least I can lay here and help people on the forum, and continue to draw up the dashboard and wiring stuff.