So decided the make a nice flat little nook for the battery and vesc’s to fit into.
Ordered a vacuum bag kit from roarockit as well as some carbon fiber to add some strength back into the deck, the material wont be in tell next week, but thought I would upload a picture of what I did on the cnc at work today. Will add some more pictures of the layup within a couple weeks.
Nope, ordered the deck from the same company that makes the adjustable brackets.
Thinking about it now, it would have made more sense to make it myself from scratch, and probably a little cheaper, now that I am customizing it the way I am. Oh well, live and learn!
So any timeline for this new bigger space cell you have in the works? Will likely be ready to order by the end of the month.
Supplies came in yesterday and immediately started laying fiber, unfortunately did not have a lot of time from getting off work, tell too dark to work to sneak in any pictures of the process, am in a mad rush to get this done before friday.
So far everything has been going fairly smoothly, aside from the vacuum bag being a real pain to work with as it is so thick and does not like to give. Am hoping this last layup I did tonight will be the final, and if it is will have used 6 layers of carbon fiber. Three layers isolated in the battery space and three full layers covering the entire deck. Am a little curious to see how this last layup will turn out since I did 4 layers at a time, and putting the layup into the bag was a bit tricky…it will likely have a few imperfections in the final result, but am not overly concerned since it is not for form but simply for function.
Heres the only picture I got of the second layup already in the bag
And here is another picture of what I made at work the last couple days.
Am going to travel the east coast by longboard in Australia, so decided it would be useful to have a trailer
Thanks onloop! Yep my thoughts have been on the same thing!
Well here it is, fresh out of the vacuum bag
It is far from perfect cosmetically, and now that I have done this a couple times would do it a lot differently…the biggest thing would be not being in such a rush to get it done!
Will have a bit of work in a couple areas, but considering this will have a layer of paint over it, think everything turned out well.
Threaded extension onto existing bolt, or weld in a new bolt extension? More info - how wide did you go?
Is your trailer going to be just the one truck at the back with wheels and front attached to your “hitch” or something mid-mount like a regular car trailer?
Wouldn’t suggest doing this to any truck that is being ridden normally though, cast trucks are notorious for bending as it is, and the added leverage will do it that much quicker, since this is only being used for a trailer there should be no problems. 180mm to 256mm
Am just doing one truck at the back wheels, wont ever being loading more than 60lbs so should be fine.
Small update, still not electric… but am slowly reinforcing the deck to make it stiff as possible. Ordered some 6K carbon twill, this stuff is incredibly thick compared to the unidirectional carbon I was using previous, pretty sure if I had of used this stuff off the bat this deck would be the desired stiffness. Oh well, live and learn. At least now I have a real nice enclosure area for the larger space cell that onloop will hopefully be selling soon.
@kai In order to make the “E-board Builds” category really easy to search & locate specific builds i am asking that you change your title to something descriptive that better expresses the makeup of your build.
Most of the new build threads tend to end up with a name such as
"new- noob - noobie - beginner - first - build - help - newb" this becomes hard to keep track of.
I would like to see each build thread with a descriptive title, such as;
Project Name | Deck Name | Trucks | Motor type | Mounting method | Voltage/Battery | ESC
Example
The Samurai | Custom Deck | Paris Trucks | R-SPEC | Custom Mount | 10S | VESC