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This was the scariest moment so far in the mountain wheelchair build…
Last night, I dropped off all of the motors and wheel rims at Halfords Autocentre in LLandudno.
This will be first task that I’ve had to get somebody else in to complete and I felt extremely nervous walking away, leaving all of the wheelchair parts in somebody else’s hands – What if they don’t do a good job of it? What if they drop one of the motors? What if something gets damaged? Do they realise how important they are?
To be honest, the two people I spoke to were very reassuring, and the girl at the counter added to the label “Guard with your life”.
They were kind enough to let me take a photo for the blog – “bye bye motors, it was nice knowing you”
And, they even said they’d take some photos as they carried out the work which was pretty cool.
If you’re reading this Will, then I’d just like to say a big thank you for offering to do it. In the end I thought it best to go to a store to do it because it meant that if they did get damaged then I’d be able to recover the costs.
All in all, I’m a little nervous, but at the same time extremely excited. The wheels were one of the first things I started thinking about when I began this journey. Once the motors are sitting in their rims, they will be the first part the mountain wheelchair which will be finished. No more research, no more designing, done, finito!
So long as everything goes well of course :S
*Update*
Received a call from Halfords the following day to say that they had done all of the measurements and found that they needed an odd size spoke which they couldn’t obtain from their suppliers. They did however email me a link to some on ebay, but they’d need to be shipped from China. The good news is that they’ve done all of the measurements and at least now I know what size spokes to get.
I’ve been into Halfords to collect the motors as the motor controllers will soon be arriving and I want to start playing with the electronics whilst I’m waiting for spokes to arrive.