… ok ok…
I was sure…
just looks fun on the first picture
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It’s for those crazy downhill fuckers. Don’t need bushings when you set your front truck 45°rake 60° toe in.
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The things that customers do to their boards 
Honestly, it amazes me how Dylan manages to keep this thing rolling given what he puts it through.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLltpdGFFN4/?igshid=yt2dkjxu9zvj
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I fucking did it!
Infusion went perfectly, held 100% vacuum the entire cure 
Lessons learned though. The softness of the silicone allows the weave of the fibreglass to be ‘printed’ into it under pressure. This is less than ideal.
Next time I will try using a layer of fine 200gsm cloth as the initial layer, to try and avoid some of that ‘pressure print’
You can come along in here and say “well Al, if you used gelcoat, that wouldn’t be an issue” and i’ll gladly tell you to fuck right off because i will not be using gel coat, there is no gel coat here, you can stick your fucking gel coat wherever it fucking fits…
To be continued…
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sucker for punishment
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Looks good man! Doing this shit is a major pain in the ass. 
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Stayed up late and pushed out another one as @Andrew was hassling me to make a red one.
I think the cloth as the initial layer is going to give me a nice enough surface to paint. Will trim these up today and get a coat on both of them to investigate.
The red one has some minor flaws as I knocked out the inlet tube while wrapping it in the electric blanket regained vacuum, but ended up with a little bit of bridging. Sandpaper and bog will fix it tho.
Depending on how the red one comes up with paint, i may need to look into gelcoat 
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Looks good dude 
Keen as to see them cutout and painted up.
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Exciting shit!
You going with truck bed liner? If so, what type?
Man you totally got me with this one. Well done.
@skate420 has banned me from using this beloved substance.
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This is as finished as they are gonna get. Whole can of bedliner for 2 enclosures…
Gelcoat is looking better by the minute today.
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Poured a urethane gasket for the eboosted kaly enclosure and dammed up the ribs on the bro. Gonna try filling those ribs with urethane to stiffen them up.
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Sooooooo, what the actual plan with those ribs? Urethane doesn’t stick to silicone. Are you going to try and seal it in after or make some sort of inserts? Is it a rigid urethane or flexible? This is triggering my nerdy instincts. Lol.
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I was just thinking about this.
The gap is so thin that the urethane i planned to use would probably be just as floppy as the silicone.
The plan was to pour the urethane in and then seal it in with subsequent coats of silicone.
But i’m thinking i might just fill them with silicone and make some sort of jig to hold the ribs straight… 
I’m kind of conflicted here right now.
Maybe i’ll just try it without anything and see how the ribs hold up. The vacuum really shouldn’t distort those ribs if the layup is nice and even.
What would you do Damon? Those ribs are skinny. Like 5mm.
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Aluminium bars like last time not successful?
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Ok. I’ll give you my opinion on continuing from where you are at and another on moving forward with different materials. Please keep in mind I’ve never done the vac bag process. I’ve made a ton of molds and castings. But obviously you’re requirements are different.
You could also do a direct layup and not worry about the cloth imprint or the ribs distorting.
Do you know if that caulk is significantly stiffer then the regular silicone that you’re using? If so you could just use that. It will take some time to fully set given the thickness.
You might be able to do a thin silicone over the form then glass your jacket and push that into the ribs (or use your metal inserted into the glass).
Ultimately with the cloth pressing the texture into your casting, I think could be fixed by using a much harder shore silicone for molds plus the ribs would also be more ridged. Maybe also getting around your gelcoat issue. Some silicones have an additive that will make them harder, but I’ve never used that brand of rubber you have.
You could do the reverse and build a form to do the glass onto then bag is and put wood or metal ribs in between. (Aka white pony technique).
If you can work out a way to make the chambers separate that would save you a bunch of problems. Honestly I think there is a gap in the enclosure market where the chambers are one piece but the flexible sections are separate giving more flexibility and ease of making. 
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Genius. Yes it is. I should be able to inject this stiffer caulk into the gap.
I like the idea of harder silicone for the entire mold, but the problem with that is cost. The only stuff i can find here that can have stiffening additives or is just stiffer silicone is prohibitively expensive.
They worked last time but those ribs were significantly wider, so i had a good amount of silicone to surround it. If i put something like that in here, i’d be worried that the silicone surrounding it would not be thick enough.
Separate enclosures for flexibility would be awesome, but I feel they would be quite difficult/annoying to weather seal properly. And unless the design was tip top, i imagine you would lose enclosure space to make overlapping flanges etc… i know that some of the Kaly boards were using a system like that, never really seen that system up close tho
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Jammed caulk in slots.
Also screeded a bunch around all the sides.
Trying not to go too thick at once otherwise it’ll likely take ages to cure. Damon told me to spit on it, said it would go off… i understand the science but in all my experience of spitting on caulk it always ends up messy.
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You should write for penthouse
Looks good!
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