Yeah, but I am curious to what valve or pump he is using.
Please let us know how your deck turn out.
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Damn bro, you’re gonna struggle to get any decent curves with 1/4 ply.
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Oh yeah 1/4” is 6.35mm you are right pretty difficult to bend into shape I think.
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My experience is that wood decks eat up vibrations while fiberglass and carbon fiber decks with foam coams vibrate like crazy. This is why most have gone away from this construction and to a wood based construction. The raptor 1 was an example of this, and there’s been many others.
GL. It’s a fun project for sure. There’s loads on info on this out there, in particular, vacuum impregnation. Hummie and I tried it once, but it’s hard to get a perfect vacuum seal and it beyond that, the dust makes you itch for days.
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@glyphiks @Tamatoa have no fear, I don’t actually plan on doing any bending…
I have a secret strategy that I’ve been working on 
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I love secrets specifically esk8 secrets…
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Good thing I found this thread after I did two boxes with just a paintbrush doing the layup directly onto the plug because I didn’t have the capability to make any special tools to bag onto. Funny I have only seen single sided bagging at work, so my mind is very 1 dimensional.
Put the vacuum bag on BOTH SIDES of the board. God damn genius. 
What about a wood core deck?
- Start with a normal wooden deck
- Lay glass on the deck to get the lid mold
- Router out the middle for batteries and lid lip
- Install the plug in the center cavity, pressed against the mold from 2
- Lay cloth and vacuum infuse
Has anyone used biaxial fiberglass cloth? It combines chop strand with woven fiberglass. I’m making a 52" pine core deck. One layer of the biaxial in tap and two on the bottom with jb weld wood hardener as the resin; gives impressive strength and stiffness for the length.
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