I’ve recently milled down my hobbyking esk8 trucks to a square hanger but have not found a suitable supplier offering motor mounts for square hangers, at a good price range. I originally made mine out of aluminium however the grade is not strong or durable for the esk8 application.
I do have access to a CNC milling machine and a decent 3D printer so any stl files for an inner direct drive would also be welcome. I am currently designing my own, however I need to finish off this project for testing purposes.
Do you need a 4th (rotary) axis to mill trucks this way? Or can you do it with jigs and flip it around manually with separate operation for each sides?
@Tamatoa I hand milled the trucks on a manual milling machine using a custom jig and a lot of measurements to keep a flat datum. You can easily achieve a suitably flat surface by just gradually bringing down the end mill at small increments of down to 0.01mm or less depending on the machine. As i was only milling one surface plane I didn’t need to constantly readjust the jig position or the trucks but I would of flipped the jig and remeasured from the surface if I had needed to.
@Fraserrazor thanks for your reply. That is interesting, I do not own a mill just a hobby level CNC router but I guess I can achieve something like that with careful planing and measurements. Would you mind sharing pics of the end results?
