I am also firmly in the “fuck that flangeless bit” camp
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decided that fuck it, I really did want cup washers for the enclosure bolts inserted in the deck… and bigger… so drilled the deck bolt hole out to handle the sex bolt diameter. I’d previously had the deck drilled for the cup washers but as a push fit kinda setup, decided I hated that easy approach and I should make it more complex.
Bored the cup washer seat out even larger to accommodate the seating compound around the washer.
Completely unnecessary, overly messy and tedious will be a bastard to clean up… it’s perfect.
I have a “one Day, One Job” policy going on at the moment, finding it difficult to get ANY piece to completion so I’m bringing my focus back into single tasks.
After this bit is finished it will be onto the 3DS gear drives, I understand I have a set of Radium 6374 awaiting putting onto these so pretty happy about pushing that ahead too.
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How large is the shoulder on rivnuts like those? Doesn’t look like they’d slip through easily, but just curious.
There isn’t really a shoulder. They are basically 7mm from bottom to top until you get to the lip. (On m5 rivnuts). I secured them with jb weld in the deck.
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What enclosure is that?
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It was custom made by Alex at findoutcustoms
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I thought long and hard about a DS enclosure, ultimately i wanted to keep it slimline with a SS but have 18s… cake and eat it too kinda thing… its fucking expensive time cake to do so 
Is there a build thread for that board out of intetest?
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It’s awesome. Would it be too low mounted drop through?
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Yep, it’ll have about 70 mm (max) top mount so no chance with the Radium 125mm (if thats final diameter??)
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Nice! I see you are widening mbs rockstar ii pro xls. How wide are you making them? I am interested how the metal spacers hold up! As far as I can see that design doesn’t use the “locking ring” feature on the hub.
I am actually also widening a set too, but I’m gonna use a 3d printed spacer from nylon (if I can sort out the issues on my printer with printing nylon).
The picture is the 10mm version of the file, but I am gonna use a 20mm version
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Can go 6mm all round or beef up the rear to 10 (+a spare wheel/hub)
Currently thinking 6 front, 10 rear, i have these to fit (different board to this build)
They gunna be chonky
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On my build, yes. Its a 10s15p triple stack enclosure. The belly is almost at hanger level. One of the reasons u use the AT wheels and dkp trucks to give it a little boost in height
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this build is to get away from DKP… Ive been riding the boardnamics 270 hangers for some time and while it’s currently on the bench, Ive been flicking between my flux and my old dkp commuter and holy shit I find them twitchy now… still a lot of fun and I enjoy it for what it is but I dont trust them so I feel my days with DKP are numbered
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Nice! Ya my build was specifically for low speed but very carvy and tight turns to get around corners in the urban areas of cities. This thing is super sketch at 30 mph.
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Getting close to installing the edge lights so thought id give it a white strip in the groove to hopefully add some reflective diffusion… dunno but shouldnt hurt and it feels better to have sealed the wound.
Sat with some sandpaper the other day and smoothed out the edges aroynd the hump. Roughly… another hour would have been great but im not trying for a production quality board… I’ll be happy if it just doesnt snap (instantly) haha…
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I thought I’d better find some motivation and crack on with the LED under the UV Glue edge.
There is a few uglier sections but a nice even flow up and back gets pretty good results, Im going to over pour so it’s rounded and then possibly sand flat and level with the CF
I can say with some certainty that its shit to remove once set in and somehow, despite multiple checks, when I got to the end of the board ‘tacking’ the LED in place I was confronted by this.
sharp dremel pieces fix/hide everything… got most of one side complete and now Im happy with process I’ll get on with the other side in the sun tmoz
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Can’t believe i didn’t see this thread till now. The deck work is amazing!
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