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One other thing I do is cut up stickers and put them under the baseplate, as per some pro tip back in the day, but if you are really having issues with baseplates moving, even just a couple of strips of thin double sided tape work wonders in stopping things moving around. Same way some people put them under rails before mounting. Easy to put on, easy to get off, but keeps them exactly where they should be, so say the people who do that.
really? i had a sticker land wrong under a truck once and another thing just like it was, if you painted a board and skated it right away, it crackles like rice krispies cereal, snap, crackle, pop. you think new bushing and pivot cups are bad, shit is maddening! i painted a lot of boards back in small wheels big pants days and i always taped off under the trucks after that happened a couple times. the shoe print on a boards i painted the night before and then half flipped were hilarious, plus they slid like shit unless the paint was allowed to fully dry.
even boards that i let cure for a week before setting up crackled unless i tapped them off. they did slide better though, obviously.
Yeah the crackle from some paint is funny.
Re stickers under, I have a lot of old shop stickers that I just cut up, not so much to fit exactly under the whole truck but just sit inside the bolt holes and I feel like they are perfect. The stickers are thicker poly material, not paper, which helps a whole lot. Some other stickers are so thin that they actually work their way out from under the trucks, or bunch up which is curious. Usually means the deck bolts are not holding the truck on well.
just stick some of the of excess grip on your baseplates after setting up a new board and keep the bolts tight. job done.
As said, some others have put the grip scrap stuck to the baseplate so it "grips" the wood, but I was never that keen to do something like that. Might have to give it a go on a random board just to see what happens though.
Anyone else done this and what happened?
* I really couldn't see this going at all well, so will just stick with my happy place and leave the grip to the top of the board only. Funny though.