I used his version of the box as inspiration and made it in the dimensions I needed for the VX4 receiver. As well as making it a bit thicker and adding the screw holes in the base (yes I can tell the screws don’t actually have enough room for any kind of head, I need to fix that)
All that plant matter was caught between the adhesive on the shock pads and the deck itself, a bit of cleaning was in order so I used a brush, shop vac, rags, and isopropyl alcohol to clean the deck. Reapplied grip
Unfortunately these shock pads are just barely bigger than 1/2 sheet of viscous grip so you can use a full sheet for either foot pad or use half a sheet on each and leave a tiny bit of space left over. I went with the latter.
Threw the bindings on and we’re ready to ride!
Aww shit,
I think that 12s4p Panasonic battery from my eovan finally died today, it’s made it 2000+miles for what it’s worth but today the range from full charge was about 3-5 miles, I can’t confirm yet that it’s dead and haven’t had time for diagnosis yet but last I rode it I was getting closer to 12-15 miles out of it, which isn’t great but certainly still works.
On the upside this means I can finally start doing some upgrades I’ve had planned for a while.
Any diagnostic I can do on the battery before confirming it as dead? Or should I (clearly not a battery builder) just leave the battery alone and consider it dead?
Holy fuckin shit I haven’t been this excited about putting something on my board in a very long time. My experience with metr products has always been utterly top notch and my expectations were incredibly high, still I was blown away.
Setting this up was an absolute joy, it’s always great when, during a setup process like this, any question you could possibly have has already been answered at length with pictures and everything.
Hummie deck showed up, enclosure from @eBoosted should be done early next week, battery is ordered but can’t really be started until the enclosure arrives.
I’m still thinking about whether or not to do inserts myself, I’ve never done any and I’d hate to fuck up this beautiful deck.
These trucks are absolutely gorgeous, and I’m really excited to experiment with bushings.
I’m currently running
85a hpf on the front primary kingpin
90a hpf on the rear primary kingpin
93a krank on both supporting kingpins
This is probably gonna feel a bit jank until I can dial it in, I don’t even know where to start with these so I’ll just mess around till I find something that feels good, such is the process with bushings.
One was very very close and only needed a tiny bit of filling on each face, the other side needed a good bit more. I suspect it’s just the tolerances like Evan said.
Very very similar, it looks like the drop is slightly deeper on the hummie, and of course the eovan has pronounced foot pads while the hummie deck has a flat edge along the side. But other than those it’s very very close.
Well, the eovan has a w concave that I’m not the biggest fan of, the edges are a bit sharper while the center bump is almost non existent, it’s okay for aggressive riding but fatigues my feet pretty quickly. The hummie deck feels like a more subtle radial concave that I’m hoping (along with the less ridged deck) will alleviate some of the foot fatigue on this board.
Whoever said that must be terrible at eyeballing it, or must’ve only considered wheel bite when eyeballing clearances or something.
Anyways,
There’s not really enough room for activities between the deck and hangar, here are my options
1: SR adjustables, they’re taller than stock savage baseplates, however I’ve just not seen others have very good luck with them and I have a hard time trusting them
2: ignore any of the safety recommendations I’ve been given from Members of this forum including the designer of the deck itself and route out the deck so the savage baseplate sits flush with the deck, this is kinda tempting just for the sleek and clean look but would compromise the safety of a board I’m primarily building for my partner whom I kinda like, so that’s a hard no.
3: as per hummie’s suggestion, route wells into the bottom of the deck to give space for articulation. Possibly reinforce with carbon fiber. This seems like a solid solution but I’m a bit intimidated by the idea of learning to work with CF if reinforcement is needed.
4: as per AC53N’s suggestion, chop the deck and use idea brackets, this would be incredibly cool, allow for some additional adjustability, solve my clearance problems, and maintain everything I really like about the deck. But I’m hesitant for a few reasons. The hummie deck certainly wasn’t designed to be used with brackets like the idea one is, the brackets add cost, and it definitely feels sacrilegious to chop up a deck this gorgeous.
I’m mostly leaning towards option 3. But would love to hear other opinions, as long as they’re not wrong.
I would router out the top and sink the baseplate in. I’d just make sure I added some reinforcement to the fukkered with area. Pretty sure @PedroMcJimenez did this with great success to his TB40 that gets ridden harder and longer than @BillGordon at a swingers party
going to replace the battery and reuse the deck you think? or go a diff direction?
