no iso, but I reckon I have some metho (methanol) handy.
battery mount contacts looks corroded/plated too, have to have a closer look.
I’ll hit it with meths now, as it’s going to be 5-6hrs until I can knock off work and try to disassemble
The cyo headlight appears to have some corrosion on the PCB already. the drive unit is better sealed.
The battery mount appears (assuming they were all silver before) to have lost the plating on two of the 5 pins, they’re bare copper and the others are silver coloured. corrosion/electrolysis perhaps.
Jesus! How long was it in the water? Like just a moment then pulled back out or was it pushed in and submerged and wrestled back to dry land over the course of a half hour?
Don’t know exactly, but would wager it was under for somewhere in the 30-60min zone
Here’s what happened…owner lives on a small yacht moored in a bay on the derwent estuary, bike parked on mooring/jetty/whatever you call it. High winds overnight, woke up to a strange noise, first thought THIEF, investigated and saw bike was in the drink, but luckily snagged on a pontoon and not down with spongebob. Couldn’t get it out themselves, called a friend to assist, fished it out, disconnected battery.
on a HY/WTH scale, this one’s got a lot of WTH, but a big HY that it doesn’t require a salvage diver to recover.
yeah, i’m sure they are v v annoyed at themselves for parking it that way (it’s been fine up until now, there’s been stronger gales recently… etc)
looks like omnium is BSA68, so I reckon I can swap out the motor unit for a crankset with a 30-something ring to allow it to run acoustic while they figure out what’s next (buy a new kit to match I guess and retire everything from existing one)
I’ll still rip the motor off and then douse the internals with lanolin spray
Yeah nice thing with a kit is that you aren’t out the entire bike in a situation like this but it sounds like he’s going to come pretty close, unfortunately
I am honestly afraid of running my Dummy without the kit lol. I put most of my acoustic miles on it during 2020 and 2021 when I uhhh didn’t really work much and didn’t mind being slow. I’ve still got all the parts in case my TSDZ2 dies but I think I’ll be ordered something from CYC ASAP
Damn my grin all axle hub motor is making some sort of vibration. Almost feels like a very light regenerative braking. So far performance doesn’t seem to be affected. Can’t tell for certain if it’s electrical or mechanical. Happens if the motor is on or off, throttle or torque sensor, or just coasting. Grin CS email response time leaves something to be desired.
Turns out these are on closeout in Oz (as the Loden One). USD$2K new, including dutch lock, stand, lights, platform rack and large basket. <60% of the cost of a Tern quick haul P9 before adding stand/rack/basket.
Quite tempted, the E6100 x gates x nexus drive train and 26/20" setup looks like a good runaround to share with 'sup.
the drive unit is better sealed.
