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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5460 on: March 11, 2012, 08:50:50 PM »
8.25 5boro pontus guest deck
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53mm streetburners
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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5461 on: March 11, 2012, 09:10:03 PM »
Low-pros are amazing, mind you.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5462 on: March 11, 2012, 10:16:34 PM »

8.5 Index
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hey thats my local shop too!

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5463 on: March 11, 2012, 10:26:13 PM »
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Low-pros are amazing, mind you.

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fresh as fuck!

Hype is real, it skates amazing. I hope Real starts selling this as much as the R1 construction. I am fuckin in love with them.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5464 on: March 11, 2012, 11:07:49 PM »
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Low-pros are amazing, mind you.

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fresh as fuck!
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Hype is real, it skates amazing. I hope Real starts selling this as much as the R1 construction. I am fuckin in love with them.
Just finished off my first R1 deck, can't wait to try a Low Pro board when I get the chance.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5465 on: March 11, 2012, 11:42:23 PM »
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Theeves seem hit or miss. I've had my Ace trucks for 2 years and they're great, but only buy them if you like loose trucks.
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theeves are a very controlled ride (reminds me some of thunders turning / response) . uber boring. aces are the looses trucks out there. the turn is to sharp and fast.. and are a pure blast to skate on. IMO. plus people think you crazy when you trucks just wobble on their own. yet you don't get wheel bite.. I'm glad i tried a lot of trucks in the past couple years so now i know ace's are the best. for how i like to skate.


I get wheelbite with Aces, Bones mediums and 52mm wheels just by turning too hard. I have clumps of urethane melted into my deck by now. Teaches you to land bolts I guess.
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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5466 on: March 12, 2012, 12:09:55 AM »
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8.5 Index
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Bones Red
Jessup
Phillips
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hey thats my local shop too!
Rep it hard my man!

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5467 on: March 12, 2012, 07:57:41 AM »
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Theeve lows
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Shortys hardware
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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5468 on: March 12, 2012, 12:26:49 PM »

Hsu 2 Fusion STI's sz 10.5

STI isn't part of the name lol

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5469 on: March 12, 2012, 12:29:45 PM »
never had a board with phillips bolts in my 11years of skating, HATE

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5470 on: March 12, 2012, 02:21:01 PM »
never had a board with phillips bolts in my 11years of skating, HATE

I don't understand this. Allen bolts fucking suck and get stripped so easily.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5471 on: March 12, 2012, 03:08:20 PM »
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never had a board with phillips bolts in my 11years of skating, HATE
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I don't understand this. Allen bolts fucking suck and get stripped so easily.

I think you're getting Allen confused with Philips.  ::)

Real talk, though, they both strip fairly easily, but philips are wayyy worse. I can use allen hardware significantly more times than I can use philips.

Trying to get rusty, stripped philips heads out are fucking impossible.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5472 on: March 12, 2012, 04:27:19 PM »
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never had a board with phillips bolts in my 11years of skating, HATE
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I don't understand this. Allen bolts fucking suck and get stripped so easily.
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I think you're getting Allen confused with Philips.  ::)

Real talk, though, they both strip fairly easily, but philips are wayyy worse. I can use allen hardware significantly more times than I can use philips.

Trying to get rusty, stripped philips heads out are fucking impossible.

No, I'm not. Allen bolts use a hex key while Philips bolts use a normal 4 edged screwdriver. If you honestly think it's easier to strip the slots on Philips bolts, then you are an idiot.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5473 on: March 12, 2012, 04:51:13 PM »
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never had a board with phillips bolts in my 11years of skating, HATE
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I don't understand this. Allen bolts fucking suck and get stripped so easily.
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I think you're getting Allen confused with Philips.  ::)

Real talk, though, they both strip fairly easily, but philips are wayyy worse. I can use allen hardware significantly more times than I can use philips.

Trying to get rusty, stripped philips heads out are fucking impossible.
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No, I'm not. Allen bolts use a hex key while Philips bolts use a normal 4 edged screwdriver. If you honestly think it's easier to strip the slots on Philips bolts, then you are an idiot.

Ive had my old Lucky Philips bolts for about 2,5 years now, and I setup boards often. Fuck Allen bolts.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5474 on: March 12, 2012, 04:53:53 PM »
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No, I'm not. Allen bolts use a hex key while Philips bolts use a normal 4 edged screwdriver. If you honestly think it's easier to strip the slots on Philips bolts, then you are an idiot.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5475 on: March 12, 2012, 05:11:01 PM »
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never had a board with phillips bolts in my 11years of skating, HATE
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I don't understand this. Allen bolts fucking suck and get stripped so easily.
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I think you're getting Allen confused with Philips.  ::)

Real talk, though, they both strip fairly easily, but philips are wayyy worse. I can use allen hardware significantly more times than I can use philips.

Trying to get rusty, stripped philips heads out are fucking impossible.
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No, I'm not. Allen bolts use a hex key while Philips bolts use a normal 4 edged screwdriver. If you honestly think it's easier to strip the slots on Philips bolts, then you are an idiot.

...Hey, genius, I know you know which is which.

Secondly, it's definitely easier to strip philips bolts

http://www.ultimaterc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130443

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-hex-key.htm


"Fasteners with hex heads are often easier to turn than those with Phillips heads or standard screwdriver slots. The six points of contact allow the hex key to fit more snugly into the fastener head than is possible with a screwdriver. This helps prevent the tool from slipping out of the fastener head. In addition, the design of hex-head fasteners makes them less likely to strip out, or distort the head, than standard or Phillips head fasteners."


guess I'm still a fucking idiot, though  ::)

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5476 on: March 12, 2012, 05:59:54 PM »
Slipping out of a Philips head is not stripping it. If you actually look at the type of Allen bolts those people are talking about (one of the posted a picture of the hex bolts they used on one of their projects), yeah I can see their arguments holding weight. The bolts they're generally using have very thick heads and allow for more of the hex key to slide into the slots. For as shallow as both Allen and Philips slots are on hardware, is is definitely easier to deform the slots to the point where the bolt cannot be turned on Allen bolts. Even using the correctly sized key on hardware, the slightest slip does not push the hex key out of the bolt like a slip does with a Philips screwdriver. Instead, it just deforms the hexagon as the key turns within the bolt.

Oh look! Here's a quote from one of your own links that backs me up: "Once a hex bit slips either the screw or the wrench is done."

So yes, you are still an idiot.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5477 on: March 12, 2012, 06:04:06 PM »
You guys are very serious when it comes to bolts.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5478 on: March 12, 2012, 08:22:54 PM »
You guys are very serious when it comes to bolts.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5479 on: March 12, 2012, 09:01:14 PM »
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You guys are very serious when it comes to bolts.
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Gotta take something serious. Or this helps for procrastination.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5480 on: March 12, 2012, 10:08:34 PM »
I've got allens on my board and phillips on my cruiser.  I am so non-committal sometimes.

Pick a side, jackass! None of this god damn tap dancing on the fence

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5481 on: March 13, 2012, 12:07:35 AM »
Allen heads don't seem to slip so much for me if I hold the hexkey in place and turn the nut instead.

The last set of phillips heads I had were the kind that you had to carve out a bit of the deck for so that they'd sink and be flush. Are they usually nowadays similar to the allen heads that will sink by themselves?
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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5482 on: March 13, 2012, 12:38:22 AM »
You guys are very serious when it comes to bolts.

I agree.  Enjoy this Tina Turner song instead of all this nonsensical bolt jibber jabber.

Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5483 on: March 13, 2012, 12:51:40 AM »
I always use allen, and I work in a shop and I see way more of fucked up philips then allen

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5484 on: March 13, 2012, 01:51:59 AM »
Rosa concurs.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5485 on: March 13, 2012, 03:31:13 AM »
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trying this gripped over the bolts thing now.. I read and saw a couple pro's doing it so I figured it try


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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5486 on: March 13, 2012, 04:25:59 AM »
Blueprint neil smith 8"
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Spitfire classics 51
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trying this gripped over the bolts thing now.. I read and saw a couple pro's doing it so I figured it try


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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5487 on: March 13, 2012, 09:30:16 AM »
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Just set up some 52 mm spitfire streetburners for the first time and I didn't like them at all. I skated on asphalt today.

What do you guys think of them?
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I've stopped skating Spitfires entirely.
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They're terrible.  I'm skating a set and they've coned out pretty quick.  And I suck.  Bones and Pig seem to be best, for me anyway.

When I'm done with these I'm back to bones 100's again. Never skated pigs though.
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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5488 on: March 13, 2012, 10:27:02 AM »
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Just set up some 52 mm spitfire streetburners for the first time and I didn't like them at all. I skated on asphalt today.

What do you guys think of them?
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I've stopped skating Spitfires entirely.
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They're terrible.  I'm skating a set and they've coned out pretty quick.  And I suck.  Bones and Pig seem to be best, for me anyway.
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When I'm done with these I'm back to bones 100's again. Never skated pigs though.
seriously, were spitfire's always this bad? i've had a few sets over the years but none were as shitty as my current set, going back to skating Bones when i'm done with them aswell, cant even compare the quality between the two.

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Re: The Set-up Thread
« Reply #5489 on: March 13, 2012, 11:37:55 AM »
i got the grosso f1's and i have no complaints