Propel Endeavor 2 Pulley Shield
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**This Has Not Yet Been Tested** The Propel Endeavor 2 is a great board for rough streets, but riding gravel trails didn't go well for me. It was a LOT of fun, but rocks got between the suspension and the drive pulleys, and damaged the pulleys. But I want to keep riding those trails. So I came up with this, to try to plug the hole through which the rocks were coming. I've got a set on my board right now, mounted with double sided tape, and I'll update this page when I find out how well (or how poorly) they work. ## Installation You will probably want to remove the rear wheel and belt to install these. That requires a 17mm wrench - preferably a socket wrench. If you hold one up to the inside of the existing metal motor mount / pulley guard, you will see where this fits on. Hints: * The thick part belongs on the front. * The thin part belongs on the bottom. * The hole and the notches should line up neatly with the heads of the bolts. Double-sided tape? Or glue? You decide... I've mounted mine with 3M VHB tape, and I'm optimistic that it will work just fine, but it will be a while before I really know for sure. I did **not** design this part to be held on by the existing bolts, because I'm pretty sure that the part would get crushed before the bolts are fully torqued. And if it didn't get crushed during installation, it would get crushed during use. And then you'd have loose bolts. Nobody likes loose bolts. ## Designed With CadQuery I created the model using CadQuery, and a still-in-development Python library for it, called Build123D. CadQuery is conceptually similar to OpenScad, but the programming language is Python and the API treats faces, vertices, and edges as first-class citizens. Together, those two things make both it more powerful, and easier to use - at least in theory. In practice, CadQuery is not yet mature. Installation and configuration are straightforward for Python veterans but there's no turn-key installer yet. I've been running CQ-Server in an Ubuntu environment on a Windows machine, and editing Python in Visual Studio Code. It's a little awkward, but I still think that CadQuery is the future. I just wish there was a proper installer for it, so that more people could enjoy it. Build123D is still evolving, so there's a chance that this Python file won't work with newer versions. Such is life on the bleeding edge. https://github.com/CadQuery https://github.com/gumyr/build123d
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