u/Round-Air9002

Plugged it into the correct wire, the correct direction, and it popped and started smoking...

Wherever I bought it from (probably Amazon) didn't assemble it correctly, swapped black and red and I didn't check before plugging in... I'm gonna pull out the pin that's stuck and see if it still works with old ignition...

Straight bullshit, it better not have hurt the scooter

Oh so I hooked up they old one with the broken casing and it still seems to function.. Now I gotta figure out who tf I bought that ignition from

Looking for the ones that hold the wheel halves together.. The ones that I think they are selling at this link on their site:

https://www.rideoutstorm.com/products/10pcs-motor-rim-screws

It's very odd that they sell it as a 10 pack when you need 12 total

I'm not about to pay that much, everything they sell is so over priced

Edit: I'm changing the post - I now realize the sidewalk damage is from riding with low air.

So now next question is: these rims volt only to motor, two pieces. Do I put the inner tube in white the side of the room is off? Or do I just put the tire in like that, then slip the inner tube in like on a bike...? I haven't tried this way yet, but trying not to pinch it between the halves is annoying as hell

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They pop every ride or two

Sometimes it's thorns, other times it's random total blowouts (inner tube, not tire)

I just put these tires on not that long ago and they're already doing this, I'm assuming it's something similar to how drag cars' tires spin before going..?

I'm switching to an off-road 100/65-6.5 instead of the 90/65-6.5 just to see what it'll do...

Also, so you guys have any tips on how tf you guys get an inner tube in on these multi-part wheels?? I always spend so long trying not to pinch the rubber

I'm just realizing I might be able to install them with the wheel whole, like a bike......

If that's possible, I'm pretty mad at myself lol

Just wondering if they're still able to be used, and what sort of guns can I use it with?

Thank y'all

My plan is to use the RV plug with 8 gauge wire and make sort of an extension that goes to a block or multiple blocks, who knows of outlets so that just one court has to come inside and there's not two extension cords coming in into a power strip with a thousand things plugged into it..

The RV power seems a bit safer

I saw my generator buried in the garage today and thought it would be a good idea to give it a test and run it for a little while..

I unburied it and pulled the gas cap to look if I could see any fuel (it's blocked) but I did notice the rim of the tank receptively being rusted and rust chips had fallen/grown up underneath them too. I tried to vacuum what I could, but not much came up. The chain holding the cap on is getting rusty too.

Then there's a metal rod coming up and it's all black around it, like there was an electrical short (I doubt that's what it was, or the gas fumes would have blown lol) but I am curious what that is if anybody knows.

Is there a way to clean the rest that is there so that it doesn't get carried in eventually? And how do I prevent it from rusting further, going into the future?

(Idk what flair to choose, this seemed closest)

I was riding my bike as a young teen and thought my chain felt loose, so I reached down to give it a tug to see if it was (it was as tight as can be) and accidentally let my feet roll forward, pulling my finger into the sprocket..

I still, 20 years later, shudder and the whole event flashes through my mind a few times every single time I write this out, speak it out loud, or even think it. I'm pretty sure there's a bit if PTSD involved there, but I've never discussed it with a psychiatrist 🤷

It felt exactly like when you smash a finger with a hammer when you miss what you're aiming for, if you've ever done that lol

Well, exactly like that + feeling a bone crunch, very similar to eating crunchy cereal (which, somehow, I still love)

The cut/smash was right at the white part of the fingernail (the lunula), like the nail ripped around the edge of it somehow. The lunula is the visible part of where the fingernail grows from.

Idk if it was because I kept it bandaged for so long or if it's normal for a fingernail to grow over the severed portion, I never really asked a medical professional.

And yes, I got made fun of a lot for it and got called ET a lot 🫤

(A couple more pictures in the comments if you want to see it from other angles)

Edit: here's the story of cutting it off and everything after - it was a comment and I was told I should add it here

I cut it and jumped off my bike immediately, but was still rolling at a decent speed, so I almost fell

My finger was squirting blood with each heartbeat, which increased pretty quickly once I saw it and started getting sprayed with blood..

I gripped my finger as hard as I could with my left hand (and didn't let up for like 20+ minutes until the ambulance came, my left hand was completely numb at that point)

This was before everyone had a cell phone, and I was 14, so I sure as hell didn't have one.. and I was out riding my bike so I was pretty far from home

I ran up to the closest house, opening their white picket fence with my blood soaked hands, squirting blood everywhere.. Went up to their white door and knocked, again, covering everything in smears and squirts of blood - they weren't home.

I tried a few more houses, similar blood situation - no answer.

The 4-5th house I went up to, the garage door started opening as I came up the driveway. There was a guy standing there in nothing but a towel. He said his dog was freaking out and he thought his buddy got their early (crazy that the dog could tell something was going on)

He put his dog in a room and brought me inside. He was like hold on let me get something on, ran away, then came back still in a towel, but holding another towel to give me... Then he stopped, turned around and ran away again. He came back with a red towel and said something like "my mom would kill me if I stained that towel, sorry"

Then he asked what my parents phone number was. I'm my head I was thinking "wtf call 911", but I was a little kid and in shock, so I didn't say it, I just told him my parents phone number. He called and my dad answered.. He said "hey.... I'm _____ and your son is here, he cut his hand pretty good" My dad shows up eventually and is trippin cause he didn't know my chopped my finger tip off lol He ran outside to look for my finger tip, which he eventually found still stuck to my sprocket 😬

He came in and called 911 finally, and they told him to put it in a bag then put that bag in a bag of ice. The other guy finally went and got clothes on lol

The rest is pretty mundane, just an ambulance ride that I don't remember and x-rays

The doctor looked at my finger tip in the bag and then threw it in the trash can, which absolutely blew my mind at the time. He later said it was too jagged to reattach. A ton of nurses and like students or something kept coming in to look at it because they didn't get many chances to see something like that.

I accidentally looked at it one time during the x-rays and started freaking out again..I think, looking back on it, that I was drugged up and had kinda forgot what was going on until I looked at it.

The Drs injected my finger with numbing stuff like 20 times and kept scraping my bones with the needle, that was unpleasant.

That's pretty much the whole story, I hope someone actually reads all that and enjoys it lol

All taken with base pixel 10..I still think they're sick as can be! I wish I could zoom on the pics when it's done though without them looking rough

Are there any tips for better pictures with a cheap set up? I also have a canon 5d mkii but no star tracker

I think 30s is the longest I can go with my widest lens without lines 😔 phone is 4:00 lol

I've seen a ton of cheap auto tracking digital telescopes are they any good?

The directions say to take 0.3-.06ml

The syringe goes by milligram, and the lowest mark, 5mg, is like 5-10ml

The bottle says to mix with 120ml of liquid before consuming

What the fuck am I supposed to do here

It seems weird to me.. Shouldn't it withstand the same temperatures either way?