thanks leo yes i drilled the holes a little smaller than the bolt I i was using, and then taped the holes with a tap.
A picture of how I did it:
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Thanks a lot this is very helpful, I wanted to learn to work with aluminum. Leo
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Update***** Ive been riding around with evrything taped on the deck lately but I took action and started building my enclosure. Still need to add the xt 90 loop key and make a housing for the esc. I needed to wrap it because there was alot of texture and was a little wonky in parts.
I started with simple foam house insulation ,
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During lay up I put a pice of carbon fiber rail tape, Left over from some surfboard glassing stuff.
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I thought id update every one on my build. I completed my build yesterday and have yet to Post what I’ve been up to in the past moth.
I drew some inspiration from boosted and decided to so a seamless wire channel on the top of the deck, I want this build to have a clean and elegant design.
For the grip i decided on using a cork composite instead of grip tape as i wanted to experiment with some new materials and i had it lying around so that means it was free!
() then just moulded a epoxy enclosure for the esc and receiver.
I then had a shot at making an antis-park loop key, I started off by cutting about 4mm off the tip of the female bullet connector then soldered 3 300ohm resistors connecting the two pieces together.
I then 3d printed a little wall mount for the connectors and then just smothered it in hot glue haha
After all that my first ever Eboard was finished!
over all it was a great experience building this, Its not the most power ful nor the moast fastestest board but it was a great learning curve and has introduced me to the Esk8 movement. I will defently be making a second build leaning towards a dual setup with dual Vescs and a custom battery pack flat lipo or 18650 pack with bms but untill then fell free to ask any questions 
some photos of my finished build:
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Nice work Man 
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Cool projet ! Well powered DIY !!!
Very nice build!
Could you please go a bit into detail about how you made the battery enclosure? Did you use a vacuum pump?
+1 for a little more detailed run through of how you made the enclosures?
I just shaped what i wanted my enclosure to look like in foam and then just used 3 layers of 6 ounce fiberglass cloth over the top and then used a squeegee to dispurse the resin and get it to soak in nicely. @Badkad
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