to a pal with all the trucks:
whats the difference between thunder vs venture forged plates?
is it just the baseplate slide and 1mm height difference?
owned both at some point but never really checked
Are you meaning "What is the diference between the Thunder forged vs cast and Venture forged vs cast?" or the difference between the two truck brands themselves?
I guess in general looking at all four baseplates right here, the forged in both brands are just the lower lighter versions of their cast baseplates, but was there something / anything in particular that you were curious about?
Forged both have the hollow kingpins, cast both have the regular kingpins. They seem to match up fairly well to each brand, the cast being slightly smaller in size overall, not just height, on these ones. Not much but it is a bit.
I also have a set of Venture cast polished plates with hollow kingpins that someone somewhere must have swapped over, as people have said they never came in this option, but these are still new unused but fairly old stock, which is curious.