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Found a new route today to get out from one town and to a neighboring city. Tried it out and got some pics. The majority of it was following a towpath along a canal. Here's the best ones 🥰

Beginning the canal stretch of the journey Stoke Bruerne. Pretty village although not really a fun place to be so I don't stick around long.

A common threat on canals and beside a lot of farmers fields is blackthorn bushes. The bushes are fine, it's the clipping. Lazy trimming ends up leaving loads of massive thorns that can be like 2cm long just laying like spike strips. On 3rd party tires these will just cleanly go through the tire. Thankfully I'm still rolling stock rubber so it just ignores even these evil thorns. That said... can't be mad, view is still beautiful.

Bank gets slimmer and path gets less defined in a lot of spots. Not nearly the worst spot but a few later on were barely traversable safely on foot so riding was out of the question. Definitely have to scrub this route from the planned route with some of the other women I was planning >.>

Another pretty little village. Ended up chilling here chatting to a chap moored up for a bit about things. Nice guy and had a cat that wanted cuddles so was well worth the trip.

This was atop of an aqueduct entering the edges of Milton Keynes. Very pretty

So I made it into MK. No pics to share since it's not a super picturesque place at least where I ended up.

@puzz360 Aha right? Do like a good challenge.
Makes me confident I can do the same to my old XR that is bound to be in no better condition 😅

UPDATE!
It works! The bearings unfortunately did need replacing in the end. Just too far gone sadly despite getting them spinning freely and smoothly. It did however need the hall sensors replacing too but other than that it's happy.

So yes, turns out a motor as rusty as that can be restored.
That is of course if you're willing to spend hours with penetrating fluids, ultra fine abrasive scrubs and a bin full of rags.

Spring is round the corner!

Saw dome geese fly overhead last night which is usually a good indication the weather is going to be good again 🥰

@puzz360 Looks like a shockingly nice day for winter!
Did you stop at the pub there? Any good or just chilling with Paddington 😊

@rob-s It may be a bit of a tricky repair to pull the thermistors from the pack but if you’re up for it those should work fine on a pint-x. It’s a fairly basic 10k thermistor so not hard to find alternatives for if the one mentioned isn’t easy to get where you are.

Regarding getting inside the battery Mario did a teardown of a 3rd party battery that isn’t too dissimilar in structure that may help you in your journey.

Best of luck with the repair :)

@LOAFFETTE The cable swap was mint! Looks intimidating at first but I guess if you defo have the right pinout then it’s just a case of patience and heat.

@Sirgu I went with some generic bearing grease on Amazon as I didn’t have a whole lot of time left to wait for any specialist grease for the specific application. Afaik for this use case it’s mostly about keeping water out so the thicker stuff seemed appropriate. High speed grease maybe if you wanna ensure no performance loss since normal greases increase the rolling resistance a fair bit once packed well.

@lemur Duuuude I remember this thing. It’s on Instructables btw if you wanna trip down memory lane. Thing was sick!
https://www.instructables.com/Self-balancing-one-wheeled-electric-skateboard/

They were happy for me to re-install it since popping stators back in is a bit of a hairy task. Gotten a little used to it now so happy to do it.

However I don't have the rail to actually handle this properly... but I do have a lot of scrap wood.

Card around the magnets as a barrier for when it inevitably wants to scrape on it's way down. Stupid easy drop in with a little extra convincing with the press to seat it onto the hub bearing properly.

And there it is. I don't have the plate either so left the bearing off the other side. It's easier and imo better to mount the bearing on the plate then slide that onto the axle. It'll hopefully get collected at some point and be put back to use. Hopefully this time not in water 😩

I'll let y'all know if this truly was a success once I hear back. But based on measurements it seems all good.