Not enough room for forward mounting the motors and still keeping it drop through.
What’s the best way to avoid this:
Has anyone filled the drop through hole with fiber glass? Added an aluminum bracing plate?
I’ve seen the riptide plate and I found these (sold out) cover plates.
I’d love to make this build bullet proof or at least not faceplant off a curb at 30mph. Any wisdom is appreciated.
Another ply. Some Bondo wood filler and a layer of fiberglass top and bottom. But I’d get a new deck and reinforce it from the start.
Filling the hole won’t help that much, because you’re limited by the adhesion between the edge of the hole and the filling.
Skinning the area with some fiberglass or carbon fiber would be an option, as would just epoxying on some reinforcement plates (either composite or metal).
Some X things would also help some probably.
This and a better-built deck.
Just beginning to assemble, so the deck is bare essentially. I couldn’t find a good top mount deck with the right shape, size, and enclosure available.
I’m open to fiberglass, plates, filler, whatever
I don’t think that’s his broken deck
Haha, not my deck. Just an example of hopefully what won’t happen. I’m working with a brand new LY Drop Carve
Send it out to me I’ll fiberglass it and frit it for cheap.
Already got some @dickyho x braces on order, but the fastener hole walls are so thin, I’m not convinced that’s enough
@cfelzien the plan is to skin and frit the deck once all the parts are in and assembled. Do you skin too?
I do anything skate related. Don’t want to take anything from sender though. He’s the best. And @glyphiks is ok to.
I’d get some open cell foam to fill the void and glass over it on both sides. Just remember when you reinforce an area the stress is often transferred elsewhere. I’m not an expert but I’d try to keep the reinforcements even across the deck.
@glyphiks did a repair to end of a demonseed? Which had been hacked. with a fibreglass sandwich too and bottom of deck. Have a search for that, I reckon.
I wonder if there’s any benefit to filling the void with something solid - like route/jigsaw/sand a chunk of 2x4 to fit tight and seal it to the rest of the deck with wood glue. Then fiberglass over.
The wood chunk wouldn’t do much for truck support, but it may act to thicken the tail section so it’s less likely to snap
If it’s a decent new deck, why would it snap?
Shouldn’t be any extra load by using top mount vs drop through.
Stiffening it cos you want extra strength is another matter isn’t it?
the plug isn’t likely to help, apart from as a base to lay fabric or another veneer over imho.
Yeah, good point. If the tail is thick enough for drop through, it’s thick enough for top mount. It’s so deceiving to the eye with that giant hole
@glyphiks, so the fiberglass glass plate + epoxy sandwich worked well for you? Awesome project
Lol it worked. But saying it worked well would be an overstatement 
It was messy and a lot.of work, but I’m super pleased with the board now that it’s completely finished
Oh shit, i didn’t even realize it’s the 
board! I’ve been admiring that build and skin job for awhile. It looks pro
Yeah how did you seal the epoxy in the ends while curing? Turn it vertical?
Yep. Poured epoxy in with board vertical and masking tape to seal the open sides where the chop was.
Lets just say that the masking tape didn’t seal all too well that’s where the messy part started
I bet like that butyl tape we use for enclosures would work great, or just quality tape like gorilla.
