So what to do when you have a press but no mould? Copy a deck ofcourse
Some time ago i got approached by someone to see if i could remake the century 40 deck by subsonic, since apparently they have gone belly up. Here is how its been attempted.
Make sure to extend the curves of the deck as shown in pictures, this will take some time but make sure to do it in a timely manner, the sand dries up and is not good to work with anymore.
Thats it for now everybody! Will it work? How will it come out? When will the next half be done? You will see it next weekend right here in this thread!
If you look at it it does, the sand is modeled so it extends the curves of the deck. We only modeled the sand flat where the mounting points of the trucks are.
Then it came to notice that the deck all of a sudden didnt match the curves on the mould exactly anymore in some places. There could be some reasons for it.
The deck works with the weather, its currently hot and dry.
The concrete shrunk when it was drying causing it to not fit exactly
We didnt press the concrete hard enough, however since this previously didnt show this is unlikely.
So,since the deck was standing off a little bit it has to be ankered to the mould for the second phase.
We ( as in my uncle ) put an extra reduction in it so it fits him better, he crashed like a maniac some time ago so now hes a little demotivated still going strong though
In the meantime i was helping my friend with his personal deck project. We made a mould out of MDF and pressed his deck, he wanted it mostly flat (there are concave pockets to it though). Hes still a rooky diy-er and kinda clumsy so im proud of him!
Also been racing little cousin on his quad (dont tell him im letting him win so he gets motivated again “ofcourse”, he is ruthless on his lil vehicle though)
Not too bad imho, next weekend i will patch it up a little bit to make iboth sides smooth and do a test run, based on that i will make some adjustments in depth etc. Some updates coming still!
This pour was definetly too wet though, it made it nice and smooth but also resulted in some unwanted folds of the plastic sheet, also some concrete leaked under the sheet.
