The Flowstate / Glyphiks Semensteeze - The Semendeed Reborn

I found with my enclosures that i got best results using both cloth/weave and csm.

The infusion made it easy to go super heavy with the glass and the layups were more often than not upwards of 2000gsm.

I believe most of them were

200gsm cloth
450gsm biax
450gsm csm
450gsm biax
450 gsm csm
450 gsm biax
200 gsm cloth

I also added additional layers of csm and biax in the flanges for more bulk there.

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Best off listening to @glyphiks. Heā€™s done craploads to a high standard too.

I think mine worked with less layers as i used a heavy chop strand in middle.

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Letā€™s see how my ā€œboat shop guyā€ attempt goes and if it fails Iā€™ll definitely be annoying @glyphiks

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More than enough. I only do about 4 layers and vac them in one go. Less is more with the resin.

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Gotta keep in mind, the enclosure is fucking gigantic. And itā€™s just a completely flat pan, no contours or details to help with rigidity.

Could you get away with 4-6 layers of cloth? Yeah probably if you donā€™t mind it flaccid.

Would it be better with more? Abso-fuckin-lutely IMO.

The enclosure was designed as a structural element, it will be interesting indeed to see how the new deck layup and enclosure layup interact. There may even be a bit of flex! Although in my testing, the flex in the deck isnā€™t a pleasing ā€˜across the boardā€™ type of flex, itā€™s a dull, concentrated to one spot type of flex.

My layups of both deck and enclosure were overengineered IMO, I am very curious to see how a much lighter system comes together.

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How far off was that enclosure depth wise from housing a stagger stack?

Its 37mm at its shallowest point. If you kept things reeeeaaaallll tight, you could prob fit a staggered pack in 42mm

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Maybe the way we do it different :slight_smile: I cut the layers in large areas that overlap and interlock each other giving it a bit more strength across. I want to try that vac infusion way you were doing it though.

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Very easy to keep adding weave layers - especially if it helps to reduce the flex in the deck without skinning it.

Iā€™ve got a set of newbee 3 links on their way so Iā€™ll set up a rolling chassis when itā€™s gone and test it out. Iā€™ll probably build it out for myself as a test board first . And then make adjustments if needed for the next one.

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Well fuck a duckā€¦ā€¦ I think it actually worked.
Ended up doing 8 layers of weave

Couple small spots I can fill with auto filler but nothing major



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Hell yeah! Thatā€™s looks great!!

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That went really well dude!!!

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Put it on the deckkkkkkkk

Build ittttā€¦ take photosssss

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Nailed it

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The deck shape I tried looks like arse.
Iā€™ll press and shape another one next week and put pictures up :blush:

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Nice work mate :clap:

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Im sure u can tidy it up. Just do straight cuts where you cut curves and itā€™ll look just fine.

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Made the rear too narrow and out of proportion. The front is definitely salvageableā€¦ā€¦if I only needed half a skateboard