hi frank. i was planning on buying a set of wheels and pulley to all terrain my board but i realized you dont have any 8mm bearings. do you have any reducer or something that i can use to make it work on my caliber 2 trucks? thanks in advance
currently we don’t. The axle of a Caliber II is to short anyway. If you have access to a lathe, you could make something like this:
Someone also reversed the spokes ( bearing seats to the inside) and dropped in a tube with the correct seats for skate bearings on Calibers.
Frank
I have torqueboards 218mm trucks and am thinking of going with your new 6,5inch penumatics and gummies. Is there a way to mount them on a 8mm axle now?
No, but we bang on a solution.
Frank
Won’t a 638 bearing (8x28x9mm) work?
If your axle is wide enough, yes.
You need 36mm of axle to fit them with those bearings.
Frank
Great - torqueboards Site says: Axle - 47mm Length, 8mm Diameter Axle 10mm thread length, 37mm usable axle length
I have a set of these bearings I bought for this reason but didn’t use if you are interested. Just pm me.
Thiat is a 10 mm axle converter for 8 mm axle, no? … screwed in a similar fashion like the ones use on Surf Rodz hangers?
No his thread over the existing axle
SurfRodz are removable and entirely replaceable axles
What kind of converter is this? …Brand? …Mil?
Nope. Threaded 10mm axel over the 8mm original one. Cnc lathed them myself. Don’t think you can buy them anywhere
So the hollyday in Bora-bora is out of the question?
I’m up for bora bora. All inclusive? What trucks do you have?
What’ your goal here? To fit trampa hubs on your axle?
If is possible. Don’t want to buy a Torqueboard if I don’t have to… but Frank already said minimum 36 mm of axle are required (not counting 10 mil from the tread). I think I just got 32 mm total from my Evolve axles including the tread. So I’m short by 14 mil at least. No luck.
Cut off some of the hanger just enough to reach the desired amount if you don’t want to spend money.