Silicone Bronze
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Ooooh, yeah.
I remember a while back a friend of mine used silicon spray to lubricate a telescoping shaft, that stuff worked amazingly.
Had to read up on silicon bronze a bit but it seems like the perfect material for this kinda thing.
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I love that.
Iāve done plenty of square stock axles in the past.
What weāve done was instead of using bar, to use tube stock, and to braze in plugs in the ends which were the turned axle/bearing surface.
So light weight, and so strong. That was just for longboard axles though.
I actually talk about them in a video I just had to look for.
@ 9:19
And actually now that Iām watching that what we ended up moving to from there was nuts that fit inside the square tubing, and using hardned bolts for the axles. For the nuts weād use inch long standoff nuts that gave us lots of thread. I canāt remember what they were called, but just stainless steel we got off of Mcmastercarr.
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I would make the red part bigger and Integrate it with the motor mount, spread the bolts out.
@moon I wonder how those ride 
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You know thatās some serious forward thinking. Although the shape probably wouldnāt have the same feel as current cylindrical norm Iād still love to see it tested. This is the right community to test and innovate truly. Iāve seen more innovative design concepts in the past year here than I have in my whole life of skating.
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This forum is an awkward balance of withholding future concepts to protect interests and working like a think tank to explore the best options for all of us.
I like that more and more high end esk8 are being made by companies.
I donāt like that when they get to a company point, they usually donāt share their drawings and concepts to build upon. Not naming any names 
Itās understandable though.
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I agree with all of this. Iām more on the side of sharing any ideas that might be useful but Iām not planning to make any money on them either.
I understand why bushes owners donāt share ideas at an earlier stage but itās such a shame. There are a few businesses here that do share and itās really appreciated.
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Check this out.
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genious !Well, I guess I have to now.
Stay tuned for a silicon bronze bushingād channel truck 
Whatās preferred, springs or those squishy urethaney things?
(Not super familiar with channel trucks)
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Itās personal preference really but I prefer the barrels to springs. They are more stable at speed because they have less āspringā.
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Breaking News: Barrels are less springy than springs! More on this at 8, folks.
ā¦jk, jk
Seems easier to design for barrels anyway so Iāll probably run with that.
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I agree. Turning was a battle for me on every spring truck I tried. I like gradually easing into a turn with increasing resistance.
The wedge shape seems like the logical choice when thinking about hanger and deck pivoting back and forth in the center. Layout has room to play.
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Well they can provide the same resistance/reactive force, but they donāt release as much of the energy again at the end of a turn, this dampens oscillation and means you can run them softer without getting wobbles.
So Iāve been toying with some ideas and I saw the thread about adapting non-mtb decks to mtb trucks and I had an idea.
What about positioning the axle of the channel truck in the slot where a normal truck would drop through on a drop-through deck?
You could theoretically get mtb trucks on whatever dt deck you wanted to without ruining your ride height.
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Next step, rough it out in cad and post it here 
Iām keen to see it.
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Like dis?
Please make your mock up look better than mine 
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Ahhh, not quite.
Iāll throw together some cad and demonstrate Soonā¢
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adjustable base plates are fine, but i cant help myself staying at standard trucks because i would never trust any bolt on my base holding the hanger.
But itz just me