Its been three years since I built a fresh build. All new all fresh some parts I just bought, some are left over from past builds I didn’t use. This will be a slow process but steady. Please chime in and welcome to observe.
So I have already made a similar post and threw hard labor, sweat and tears to come up with this refined build, I would love to hear your suggestions and ideas.
What do you have in mind for an enclosure? Other than it blocking your RF signals.
Presumably it’s going under your deck?
I’m considering making a fibreglass ‘top-box’ for my next build, but am a bit worried I’ve never seen anyone with one (except for some really janky old boards, so maybe it’s a bad idea, or just hard to make look good.
Also, how are those gear drives looking, very excited to see your EToxxs.
I don’t know how flexible are those decks (I would say quite a bit), but a single segment carbon fiber enclosure will be very stiff and offers no room for flex. My guess is too much flex and the enclosure will crack.
The enclosure masters make segmented enclosure like this one (and that’s fiberglass):
Thanks for the concern. The board is extra stuff and the segmented enclosure doesn’t fit to the contour of the board as I would like to. I do understand.
I meant to say extra stiff. The board doesn’t flex at all. But I have extra custom enclosures. If that seems to become a problem I also have the segmented enclosure as a contingency plan.
The carbon enclosure will make it more rigid but I would personally advise against going this way.
The issue is that the enclosure have no way of moving with the flex, putting the stress on the inserts and the middle part of the enclosure. It might works until it doesn’t.
Thanks for the concern. I have considered the implications of going that route. So I’m in the process of rethinking my development. I might make a carbon segmented as you suggested.
