Anyone tried printing gaskets with TPU?
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Is that th Etsy deck+gaskets?
Ah yes, The true hierarchy of needs
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That looks a a normal mountain board with caster wheels attached. Hell I could make that.
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Check the camber on the wheels.
You would need to either bend your truck axles or use FleXL trucks to get the same effect 
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Maybe the trucks are bent in the picture. I feel like you could get better performance out of those lean trucks
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beautiful setup…
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Or, this customer could avoid leaving this board next to the ocean to get hit by a wave. All electronics died, battery survived thanks to the enclosure design keeping all the water pooled in the electronic compartment.
Motors and wheels received all new bearings as well.
No
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If a board can’t survive an ocean wave, it’s not good enough
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I have with limited success… you can get a good fit, on a cambered deck, but they lack any substantial squish, and really require some additional sealant…
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Okay… that’s actually overstepping a bound.
90%+ boards can’t ride on even compacted shoreline sand.
does this link work to show the secret?
apparently it does work
#sorrynotsorryFreebord
So, full ceramic bearings, titanium axle/hardware only, vapor deposition coating on all motors and exposed metals, positive pressure enclosure to eject high pressure water intake, plastic capped/sealed charging outlets
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Don’t forget it also needs to float
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this sounds like a really good idea, and do-able on a peli-case build
aviation folks do use titanium bearing races and they hold up. link removed, my bad, those are titanium nitride coated steel. the fatboy hangers use titanium axles. folks like @KfromtheBay already use titanium bolts and nuts because they purdy. i don’t know if applying PVD to motor parts makes sense when we can rebuild them with a ti shaft/bearings, and all other surfaces covered in epoxy/conformal
The PVD is for the stator and magnets, which you can’t make out of ti, because steel, but yeah, the more parts in Ti the better, and a pressurized enclosure is the only way to guarentee no water intake from a smashing wave
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instead of applying PVD to the stator and magnets, wouldn’t potting the whole stator (windings intact) in epoxy suffice? same can be said for the can, all the space between the magnets can be filled with epoxy, and a lathe can be use to precisely leave only enough epoxy on the surface of the magnets to prevent corrosion. statorade can be used to fill the airgap and as it does a great job of resisting displacement. just thinking out loud. the air injection port would have a check valve, we could recharge the peli-case in the field with a can of compressed air