I feel you man, Also with the short board I wouldn’t worry much about battery life.
Its kinda nice to have a nice light weight board for cruising short distance as I recently learned with my tayto build.
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I honestly enjoy riding short boards more.
I really want something i can go on long rides with. I’ve got the 6s3p riptide for a quick charge short range board.
I’d love to toss a meepo 10s2p in that.
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Damn a 12s6p/12s5p Tayto would be the perfect board.
Nice and short, carvey and fun. While having tons of range.
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Kydex isnt crazy difficult if you take the time to make a good form. I used thick sign foam that is easy to cut and sand to shape the box and used wood to make a piece that fits around form with enough room for kydex. Routing the edges helps get smooth uniform look. The only annoying thing is oven size limititations, both enclosures i made have a seam… buuut, they look good still
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I like a bit more kicktail than it has to offer
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So… i had this random enclosure with a built in heatsink.
Removed heatsink.
Cut mount area from old enclosure to use as clamp/ mounting brackets for heatsink.
Cut hole in enclosure.
Slapped it together
Ill mount vesc with heat transfer tape and probably toss some rubber over unused heatsink surface.
Still need gasket, should be here Wednesday.
And ill add one if not two more bolts on each side.
Battery will be attached with velcro to deck while vesc will obviously be mounted to heatsink on enclosure.
Need to figure out loopkey placement still.
Might try and do a carbon fiber wrap when im done.
Oh and i gotta seal the heatsink. Probably jbweld. Or silicone? Have both.
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This. This 100%.
My other problem is that direct drive is waaaaay too wide. Front wheel drive seems the only sensible option left… because putting the motors inside the wheels is not sensible.
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Most of his are out of stock, and I think there are long lead times on them. It may not be the most opportune moment for that.
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That’s actually a really good idea. If only Legos didn’t cost more than enclosures. LoL 
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@Skunk who makes this dual 4.12 vesc? I have not seen one before.
The kicktail / front wheel drive seems like a decent solution. I keep thinking about a functional kick tail but there always seems to be some downside to motor placement.
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It’s a maybe 100a vesc
found out that the velcro just is as nice as the fucking glue that holds it to the deck, so its all shit this way. Use metal loops you can screw on the deck, then get the velcro through and your attachment will be rock solid.My hint:smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
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yeah ahhaha…but you just have to steal them from your kids or even do a kindergarten robbery.
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I had good luck with velcro on my 12s4p. Just gotta use the good stuff
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but my solution is the best solution for using velcro in this case hahahahaha
Seems like more work lol
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naaah…just a few screws. I know you will love it my friend
Apparently lost my last #fuckpushing sticker @Venom121212 made me… but i do still have this he sent me some time ago.
Im gonna put last enclosure bolts in tomorrow morning. Then ill mount the motors up.
I’ve got everything to get her running.
A few finishing touches that are 100% form over function. Hopefully tailplate from @702vegas
Also need to get a tail bone @mikenyc designed for me printed.
Hopefully ill be able to ride this thing soon.
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however most people have them. I still have all my legos from when I was a kid. Maybe I should get into the enclosure business. I could offer sharks or lego men to hang out on the enclosure. But in reality I wonder how it they would hold up in using them as a mold cause they have those convex pieces they use for windows. Legos and a vacuum table and you are ready to produce enclosures.
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this idea is quite awesome!