Where do you get your battery enclosures?

[esk8_01]

I’m working on a new project, it’s going to be a street/race board and for the love of god, I can’t find an enclosure anywhere. I need it to be around 30-28 inches long and 8-ish inches wide. Does anybody know where I can find this?

[b264]

Order of operations solves this

@b264

If I could be of assistance, it would be to choose your items in a certain order. Don’t choose anything else until you’ve chosen your deck and enclosure. Because you need to know if it will even fit. Enclosures are much more difficult than you think, and you need to know if flexibility will be something you design for, or not. So go in a certain order, along the whole way making sure you choose things that are compatible with each other.

1. helmet
2. deck + enclosure (flex?)
3. battery (flex?)
4. ESC(s)
5. drivetrain & trucks & motor mount
6. wheels
7. motors
8. {everything else}
9. remote
10. aesthetics: grip, colors, lights

Leaving enclosures until last as an afterthought is a surefire way to end up in a less-than-ideal position.

Build your vehicle around a deck/enclosure. Don’t try to find a deck/enclosure for your vehicle.

[b264]

@esk8_01

Does anybody know where I can find this?

What country are you inside of?

[Linesflag]

If I can’t find any, I make them myself. If you’re fine with an “okay” result, it’s really easy too.

[b264]

@Linesflag is right. I really wish I started making fiberglass enclosures a long time before I did.

Also, unlike making batteries or decks or trucks or wheels, the barrier to entry is very very low and you can practically just make one if you want to, cost effectively. It’s not cost effective to make just one set of trucks or wheels or just one deck or just one battery.

[esk8_01]

USA

[esk8_01]

Does anybody have a guide on how to make them?

[b264]

There is one here. I should make one, but I haven’t yet.

$40 Home depot custom enclosure

I wanted to finally start logging a build here at the risk of making something that dosen’t work so we can all learn together. One of the hardest things I’ve found about esk8 is sourcing well-fitting enclosures cheaply. One route is ABS or Kydex. However, I don’t have an oven big enough to soften the stuff to form around a mold, plus my lady will kick me out if she finds me using the oven to bake anything other than food again. I have some decent experience in shaping foam and laminating surfb…

I do it a little bit differently.

[Flyboy]

Fiberglass over foam buck works fine, you can also build the enclosure out of cardboard and fiberglass that. Cardboard method benefits more from a vacuum bag setup.

[glyphiks]

There is a lot of info here on how to make enclosures. The one Brian linked is great, here are some more

How to make a cheap enclosure form for direct fibreglassing or epoxy layup

Cheapest, down and dirtiest, diy, enclosure form This process uses easy to source materials, designed for epoxy or fibreglass direct layup. I wanted to figure out how to make a “form” for making enclosures on, that almost anyone could do. I know it can often be a tricky part to get or people want to customize their own. I picked EVA foam or L200. It’s the yoga mat stuff, anti fatigue mat, high density foam. I bought this at Michael’s it was $1.50 per piece (Canadian). I grabbed six of the 9x1…

Fibreglass : Mold and Enclosure Making : How To and How Not To

So if you are thinking of making your own fibreglass enclosure, great! It’s heaps of fun. But it is a MASSIVE amount of work. I totally underestimated just how much work it would be, but the process was satisfying and I learned a lot. There are a few different ways you can create a fibreglass enclosure, but I am going to focus on the way that I did it here, and hope that others can share their experiences as well. PART 1 - Making the Mold I decided that I wanted to make a negative mold for my…

Search the word fibreglass and look through people’s build threads as well

[Linesflag]

@esk8_01

Does anybody have a guide on how to make them?

Make a foam or wood block roughly the size of you battery + ESC, cover it in smooth tape, coat it in a separating agent (mold release, or if you want to be cheap, paraffine wax from candles works too), get a non stick base (trash bag works too in a pinch), then lay up a few layers of glass fiber and coat it with epoxy. Makes for a sturdy, albeit not very pretty enclosure.

If you want to step up your game, a vacuum pump will enable you to make nicer and lighter ones. Also read the aforementioned threads, lots of great info in there and for a few more bucks your results will improve drastically.

[Sk8tedad]

also Kami Juni has some videos of unconventional enclosure builds
https://www.youtube.com/@KAMiJUIN

[cfelzien]

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