eBay should have everything you need, there’s no reason to buy a VESC, lingyi is just as good and comes with a remote, ziplock makes some great enclosures.
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Don’t build one
just get a bunch of random parts and put them on a table.
done
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Single hub motor kit from eBay
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Used hoverboard battery
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China esc (diyeboard style) or rc boat esc
Heat shrink makes for a great enclosure.
Oh and throw it all on a trick deck
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Don’t use locktite because restricting your bolts freedom of movement is messed up.
Salvage cells from different junk power tools to make your battery cheap and easy.
Don’t ever measure anything, expert builders should be able to eyeball it right every time.
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Solder cells together*
Who needs a spot welder
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You also don’t need to buy Maytech, just pull the motor out of your blender or stand mixer, basically the same shit.
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13s Lipos pack, heavily puffed bc you stole them all off a crashed drone
no bms
no enclosure
Alextech VESC
cloud wheels
shitty eBay mount
jerry-rigged enertion remote
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- Walmart deck
- duck tape and cardboard enclosure
- pitbull gold motors
- Alex tech vesc
- FleXL trucks
- dirt bag battery
- Nano x remote
- square wheels
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blow your savings on a board now, you can save up for a ruroc later down the line
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Buy one of these.
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buy that for your daughter
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-Glue a brick towards the top of the board to reduce speed wobbles.
-whatever vesc wizard tells you it’s wrong! Double every number you see. Moar speed, torque, range!
-nuts don’t screw in easily? You forgot to remove the seal at the top. Grab some pliers and strip them out.
-seller is the cheapest on the entire planet, barely speaks a word in english and asks you to pay with by friends&family? It’s fiiine. Trust me 
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1.) create a new .builders account
2.) tell everyone about months of build research but start a new thread for advice on every part. Gotta get them stats up.
3.) fuck those guys advice flat decks with mountainboard trucks look cool!
4.) bitch about prices of batteries to get a better deal then get the cheapest one on Ali
5.) start group buys to get your parts cheaper (use the savings for badass ruroc)
6.) lose your shit over two week shipping delay. That’s just unreasonable
7.) list it for sale for $3,000 your time is valuable!
8.) ask Mike for unicycle recommendations, you’ve peaked in the Esk8 world and they’re way better anyway
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- post images of scantily clad women on insta holding a skate board and other social media “living the lifestyle”, create a “buzz”
- open kickstarter campaign
- prepare (3) videos and release as needed, order is important duration between posts less so
- hi guys we are really excited…
- hey guys making progress but running a bit behind…
- leaving esk8 here’s what happened…
- buy pre-built, put new griptape on it and hide in shame.
optional - buy pre-built send to damon to fix, claim it’s your own work while on the street.
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make sure you tape your phase wires together when you wire your board, the motor needs all three to work.
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don’t bother setting up your vesc or doing battery cutoffs, the default settings work fine.
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no one needs proper belt tension anyway, just leave it loose and then complain about the belt being too long
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alextech.
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make sure 4 every question you have that you make a new thread
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try and do a group buy your first day on the forum, not like we need to know who you are
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For AT builds:
Buy four different size wheels and tires. The uneven terrain will match up perfectly with them and you’ll get the smoothest ride you can imagine.
For street builds:
Clearance- the lower the better! If you can’t hear your enclosure getting belt-sanded by asphalt your center of gravity is waaay too high and you are absolutely positively going to fall, just like your mother said you would.
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You guys have got it all wrong.
Everybody knows if you want the best esk8 around, you hire @Halbj613 to build it for you 
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Ahaha, this made me lol in real life 
Are you like reading my mind or something??? I was going to say that 
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- Create new account on esk8.news
- Show off underwhelming hub build
- Claim it’s the fasterestest out there
- Profit
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Install your trucks backwards.
Buy a random board that has no available enclosure because you want to be unique
Trust vendors here because in 2017 they gave away a wheel the one time
Get caught up in preorder hype and abandon the hobby when they inevitably fail
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