Hello. I’m alive unfortunately none of that happened based on a issue I had with the deck flexing TOO MUCH! So I’ve resorted to adding UDCF (undirectional carbon fiber) which I’m getting it all in. Epoxy/ hardener and breathing fabric have come in, fiber is on the way. Need to get a peel ply, but the electronics have been tested. Not sure if I posted anything about that on here, but everything works properly. I’m gonna be working on this heavily over the winter, wanna get it done during the time so it can sit till spring comes when it will finally rise up and take off. No pictures yet but once I start the carbon fiber, which will not take long. Maybe a few days tops. We’re getting there, need to stop saying it’ll be done in a week, think it’s all karma lesson learned - shut the fuck up till it’s done
(Edit) I didn’t post any new pictures, so here they are:
Got the VESC and motor ready to go! Everything works, was so happy to see that the practicing of soldering paid off, everything’s solid. Enjoy these two videos (made sure I converted them to mp4)
Got the VX1 remote connected, was trying not to strap everything bootleg style and go cruising lmao
Became to anxious and I strapped everything with the handy dandy duct tape, and took it across my kitchen floor. Let me remind you, I never ridden a electric skateboard before. All tho i’ve skated for 10 years straight and still going. I adapted to it very quickly. Even playing with the speed and braking, for 10s lipos in series. Its a rocket enjoy some of these sweet videos
Videos
(And for those iOS users like me, can’t leave you out as well)
A lot, a lot of stuff has happened since the last log. Sum it up, had to redo the whole board and get replacement trucks, now we’re finally approaching the finish line. Starting off with drilling the enclosure holes, got that done last night and the fitment is perfect, later today I’m going to be starting the assembly process and hopefully take it on its first voyage on Monday, then again I can’t promise anything as I learned 3 months ago, can never say done because a project is never over
Wow…I haven’t updated this thread in a fat minute, well if many of you seen my photos you can see the boards been finished for the last 2 years now. Alots been done to it and some more upgrades are in the works so allow me to update you on what I’ve done to it
•First thing to change was the battery setup, originally the setup ran on 2x 5S 4500mAh lipo batteries from CNHL which ran amazingly so I decided to keep getting their products so I went with a 2x 5s 8000mAh lipos which upped the performance immensely especially since I put the batteries in series
•Second thing to change was the wheels, I had originally on the setup 90mm flywheels with a DIY electric skateboard 36T pulley, upgrading to a 120mm Cloudwheels Discovery’s from iWonder with a custom aluminum pulley which I’m switching out since I found an actual brand that makes them instead of my diy job on the pulley itself lol, I wanted a street setup that could do off-roading since I have gravel bike trails all around my area and thranes couldn’t do that lol. Good times…
•Rubber stripping, originally the enclosure was lined with foam which was a pain in the ass to deal with when I had to open up the board for maintenance so I ditched that and went with a rubber seal which seals the inside a lot better and isn’t a pain to deal with when taking the enclosure off, also limits the vibrations a lot more then the foam so it was a little change that made the board better and easier to work on when needed
•The last upgrade for now was upgrading the trucks, I originally had a 185mm Caliber III trucks on the setup, upgrading it to a 220mm boardnamics precision trucks for more axle room and also space to upgrade it to a dual motor which is coming really really soon. I also added a custom coat of paint, not sure if I’m the first to ever customize boardnamics trucks but I simply wanted to keep the color scheme lol
•Extras: I am adding a 40T pressift pulley to the cloudwheels along with that I got the new FE’s which I’m planning to just swap the wheels if I ever wanna go off roading or street / Bluetooth module, my Flipsky 4.12 VESC doesn’t have a port for it so I’m gonna add that later on when I upgrade the VESC which will be a dv4 / I think eventually I’m gonna repaint the whole board a cooler design or just freshen up the current one / dual motor is coming very soon. I was originally gonna get two 6355’s but I didn’t see the point since I can just get one 6374
That’s pretty much it for now. This boards come a long way and I’m excited to show you guys V2, I wanna get started on my second esk8 build but atm I wanna get this one at a spot I really want it at then can put my attention to the other build, I’ll try to update this more often as I work on it. Thanks for visiting
12/5/24: Big updates! I got the dual motor setup all ready to go, had to make some tweaks since the axle was barely long enough to fit the Cloudwheels FE and a pressfit pulley but once that was done it fit really nice, had a issue with the VESC but it was quickly resolved with resetting the isp button, getting a mount traded with @b264 and it’ll all be ready to go shredding before winter really kicks in
It was glued being bent around this central ledge.
Tbh, I have the same dual 6374 as well as other hardware on the way now, so I’ll be happy to see you in my custom deck&enclosure build thread in a couple of weeks.
Hello! Thank you brotha I appreciate it. Definitely making a custom deck is a lot more time consuming but the results turn out amazing, this was my 4th time making a deck with its own custom sizing based on the truck length and enclosure width and also for stability during high speed but it has very very very little concave, you can hardly tell it does but the mold I put it on was almost flat, I used 9 layers of maple veneer which surprisingly it really doesn’t flex that much, originally I was originally going with 7 with some CF but I had the 9 layers of veneer lying around so I used that and ever since it’s been really good, I painted my own graphic on there just to make it more custom, paints starting to crack so I can see a refresh on the paint coming soon.
Your method is definitely interesting and almost wanna try that for the next deck for a new build I’m planning in the future, usually see people mold the concave with foam and can always be a hassle if you mess up the measurement you’ll be wasting a whole deck but seeing a simple metal edge that gets glued with the deck with the pressing process is definitely a smart idea, thank you for hopping on the build thread and reaching out, definitely let me know when you’re threads up and I’ll hop on there
enjoy some of these sweet videos
