Hey all first time building an esk8 did some research a bit so I went ahead and bought a kit from diyelectricskateboard.com seeing everything are mostly plug n play I assumed
Still waiting for majority of the parts for the build.
Please tell me this is gonna have a top zelda skin with white background. Gonna be dope. What paint did u use plasti Matt? How did just paint the lettering so intricate
Love Zelda but it’s just gonna be a black n white theme with a hint of gold and red. Spray painted the letters white then just sanded it down lightly leaving the bottom white, you can still see the tiny scratches from the flash.
Good thinking going with Tb, you know its reputable, its products are great and the customer support is excellent. I too bought a kit from Tb and I wouldn’t change a thing!
Change of plan. Opened up my brand new deck LY Evo that I was gonna sell went ahead and put them shoes on. Currently the battery being is built going from 12s4p 30q to 40t.
Anyone have pic of a LY Evo Falcon 40 without grip tape just raw maple? I was planning on raw look with clear grip tape.
Had to lower down the motor mount/motor as it was hitting the deck when I lean.
Got the Psychotiller Evo enclosure from @370HSSV very fast shipping.
Got it mounted with m4 bolts/wood inserts and epoxy.
This is first time and I have no exp in mounting an enc f#cked and stripped on the first wood insert 🤷.
Interesting. That did not work for me either. I have some M5 inserts (very similar if not identical to the ones you depicted) for which I had to drill size 10 (don’t know the unity for that?) holes. Using a massive screwdriver I was then finally able to screw those inserts in the deck. However, very few I got straight and even less of the inserts position matched up with the holes that I had drilled previously into the enclosure. Thus, I had to significantly increase the diameter of the holes in the enclosure or even drill entirely new ones again later.
Edit: Overlooked that you actually also have the nuts on the bolt … so you are actually using those nuts rather than the bolt to screw the inserts in?
Those nuts are just spacers cause my bolts are too long. Lining up the holes and getting them straight are a whole other thing. The holes on my enclosure are extra wide but I use washers to remedy that.
Think I am going to try this technique shown below next time (sorry for the shitty quality - this is a screen shot taken from a german YouTube video in 240p from 2010)
Was hard trying to put it in first time cuz I was using a small drill bit. Stripped like 2-3 m4 heads so I went for a slightly big drill bit, it helps alot on installing the inserts plus epoxy.
