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Judging by the colour of the bushings they look like hollow light ii's with different kingpin.
those baseplates look kinda tall for forged...might just be me
They look cast to me, not much real estate to play with inside the forged for nut and pin if you tighten them past the nylock.
I know from personal pain getting krux dl's in there. Stoked for the resurgence of inverted kingpins.
Cast for sure:
The forged plates are too low to support standard nuts for an inverted pin.
The finish looks different (lighting?); depending on what method they went with they might have had to make a different mold in order to hold onto the nut/sleeve they're using for the inverted pin, unless they just used a sleeve/nut with more meat on it as the cast thunder plates are almost capable of holding onto a regular nut..but at that point why not tweak the plate length...but maybe those risers stick out helping the baseplate slide issue
(I kid)...or they're needed to keep the nut from digging into the deck
looks like barrel bushings too
Conicals with a small washer on the bottom.