Re: Nike Mag V2 mod discussion and builds
Well here we go, got home from work to inspect the shoes closer:
I'm normally not one to complain about stuff....so bear with me.
Review:
The Good:
They feel good on my feet. Warm and cozy in this cold house. Look pretty sweet in person. Then BAM! A huge smile ran across my face when I put them on. Like I was finally reaching a dream of mine...They are made of a beautiful material which feels very sturdy. No random tiny drops of glue anywhere.
They smell like a new car and not like cheap rubber. Solid feel to them, yada yada yada.
The Bad:
Both shoes had minor issues with consistency and quality.
90% of the problems are on the left shoe; the right shoe is ehhh acceptable...
The ankle buckles of both shoes arrived in a poor condition. Tons of bubbles, dark/dirty spots, tiny needle-tip-sized holes rippling across them in numerous areas, and the wiring on both switches is finicky. I don't have to push the button, just wiggle the wire and bam....on/off.
The NIKE MAG letters are riddled with paint bubbles/raised areas.
Looks more like HIKE to me :S
Many of the threads sewn into the shoe have errors with looping and tons of frayed ends measuring about 4-6mm in length per fray, missing strings in some minuscule spots, inconsistently cut and sewn patterns between the two shoes.
((For instance if you ask two people to make a paper airplane and then you sit them side by side and say okay...they appear 65% identical.))
The bottom of one shoe was scuffed with dirt or burn marks of some form. Felt like a rough texture compared to the unmarked areas. Like it was a defective shoe someone returned to them...and then they sent it to me.
Left shoe turned on:
Then I banged it onto the floor and got this:
Toe box was crushed like a piece of heavy furniture on carpet for years, so I tried to pop it back out with my hand a bit; the result of the attempt:
Another angle
Compare the right and left shoe in pattern and consistency of the SAME sides, same spot:
Right shoe:
Left shoe:
Threads, the other shoe was worse, and randomly cut foam trimming:
Note: I trimmed the majority of the frayed strings off with my Tamiya side cutter later on.
Here is the right shoe turned on:
And both sides together(notice the glow on the left is very dim and inconsistent compared to the right:
I know to a lot of people might not complain about such tiny things...I'm just a little upset I paid full price for only like half of one correct shoe. Now I gotta rip them both apart to make them look the same; try to fix them myself.
Gotta buy Loctite, packs of 3mm diffused red yellow and green LED's, resistors, wires, more batteries, switches, el panels, inverters, pcb boards, solder, and take YouTube crash courses on the basics of wiring and electrical components.
I can't even tell if they charge when I plug them in. They are both totally blank when plugged up. So is that good or bad?
Waka waka.