Day 1
Deck arrived today. @EreTroN did an amazing job skinning and fritting this deck with Medium, and then fine frit, for maximum grip.
Here are some photos he took, and some of my own:
The wooden edges look so good!.. But I’ll be painting over them with some dark blue paint I bought from Amazon. I think when it’s all finished it’ll look better that way. I also bought some glow-in-the-dark luminescent paint, but unfortunately it’s not transparent as I had hoped, so I guess I’ll have to leave that for another project…
Enclosure Mounting
Let’s see if I can not screw this up for once. Step 1: align enclosure on the back of the deck
Step 2: trace an outline with a sharp object
Step 3: Place your gasket. It’s important to have a gasket on when you mark your bolt holes, otherwise they won’t line up! 
For this build I’m using this thick car gasket, because I will be routing my davega wire between the deck and enclosure, and motor wires as well. Since this is a urethane board, I don’t plan on riding much in the rain. I like that this gasket has a drop in the middle, which is perfect because the enclosure has sharp ends 
The ends of the deck are curved, so I shouldn’t have gone as far out as I did, but I can squish it inwards with my fingers to get a perfect seal. A seal so good you can hear the air getting squeezed in and out 
Step 4: mark where your bolts will go against the enclosure. I used a tape measure and a lot of eye-balling. I’ve seen one person add bolts at the ends of the enclosure as well, but since that’s where the deck curves, I think I’ll skip that this time.
Step 5: Use a washer and a pointy object to mark the center points at which you will be drilling. This is helpful because fiberglass dust will cover up your marks otherwise.
I will be drilling tomorrow, because I need to collect my charge port from the post office first. And I also have work to do 
Maybe I’ll assemble the drive-train later tonight, who knows…