It looks great and I like the bracket design going above and below the deck.
I tried lasercutting steel split angle drop brackets and a few things to watch out for is
A. It is difficult to drill steel especially stainless or work hardened from the laser without a pillar drill.
B. Lasercutting struggles with thick cuts close together due to the steel melting and warping entirely, so I had to get them made 30mm tall, machine them down, and realised I should have just bought a block of 7075.
C. The surface finish will be very rough and crappy. You can belt sand for the trucks but between the 2 sides for the deck will be trickier.
Stacking layers horizontally
What might be possible to help surface finish and drilling is lasercutting something like 3x 6mm layers for each bracket with vertical gaps in the middle one allowing for truck and deck screws, then holes going horizontally to bolt the layers and different parts of the middle sheet together. I understand if this doesn’t make any sense I can sketch this either.
This is something I’ve done before, don’t worry. I work at a metal fab shop with drilling, grinding, etc. equipment, which my boss lets me use after hours. 12mm thick brackets cut 6-12mm wide are still going strong on that board
This week’s been a bit slow. I got the underside of the deck cleaned up, removed the inserts and filled the holes with epoxy. The JP40’s are also balanced up and glued into P-groups.
I decided that stress concentration around the rear bolt hole was too rich for my blood, so I stripped the brackets, and welded a bridge between each half to give the area a little more beef:
And with the enclosure mounted, it actually looks like an esk8! it’s now equivalent to a 48" deck. Needs a few things (like different length screws to finish mounting stuff etc.) to really be called a rolling chassis, but I’m happy with this rate of progress.
. How are ya getting there? I’m driving down from up state, I can probably grab you on the NJ side if you need
There’s an Amtrak/bus route that gets me there in 4hrs, but I’m more than happy to chip in gas/grass/ass for a carpool.
