lowrider

Seb if you take your plate to the drill press and fill it full of holes like they do with brake rotors on racing machines you can shed a pile of weight and not affect the strength reducing the mass is always good. If you made these by hand it will take a lot of work but i think you will find it worth the effort. If it's CNC well sit back and watch or do a vid and post the picture people always like to watch someone or something do the work for them.;)

Some of us are working away all summer long so a chosen few can ride plates this comming season. Play nice or we won't share.:nono:

Whats up ! Too hot in Cleveland. Good Luck!

Ok for the sake of discussion ! if the board in question has issues why would you risk it ? The original inserts in boards have structural integrity ie; reinforcement points (extra glass under head of inserts) ski binding screws is just such a bad idea it's not worth discussing and installing inserts in a board can and is done regularly, sure it will work if i did the work myself i would trust it if someone else did it ????? Again with newly installed inserts the point of no reinforcement is the issue. Any hardware that can incorporate at least three binding inserts would be preferable than the other options given their limitations. Realising of course that the loads on inserts installed on the outside edges of any board will be under less load than binding inserts in the middle of a board.As far as a one shot lets see what this does and you have someone willing to try anything as i have been lucky enough go for it love to hear the results.

Why not use hardware that uses 4x4 board mounts and ump plate mount ???

Most of the load on the plate will be compression not a lot in tension unless you ride hard on the tail like our knuckle dragging counter parts AKA soft booters.As far as riding what you have made no issues it will work fine! The top sheet and sub layer of glass will support the screw heads. Been There Done That! How is the snow pack down under ????

I'm not a huge library user but my wife is. Is your daughter planning on returning the book soon ????:lol::lol:

That looks like people having fun no to low cost. You can't do that in our society today looks dangerous !!!!:eplus2:

99.999% of snowboard injuries are by riders not using plates!!!! :lol::lol::lol::lol:

186 PR coiler with a plate good for most conditions! iffy on spring slush but i'm getting old and lazy. Bruces Am's around 174 would be my next board.

Keep it simple stupid. Great !!!! Now you have single handedly created a global shortage of old decks for home tinkering.:lol:

Taxing the Hell out of oil may sound like the answer, In the great white north our gov't has adopted that very policy, provincial tax, federal tax exicise tax and soon to be Harmonized sales tax. Then what do they do with the money? Bail out the auto makers. Prudent use of my money ?????? Ontario provincial Gov't just sold off large chunks of lake Ontario, lake bed for wind turbines and never told anyone!!! Responsible govt's don't do things like that. So how can we expect buisness to behave any better????

Find a buddy order Two Boards share on shipping (Thinking Green)! order new board with plate inserts !

That HOT BLAST with it's horizontal laminates would make a sweet plate.

Post the measurements of disk, outside overall diameter and inside diameter of binding. (where disc was removed ) Then everyone knows what size to look for.

Check out 2008 thread "Kildie" He is the guy who knows the truith about plates.

Any one want to join a plate therapy group?:lol:

While we have the wish list going can we shoot for the impossible???

So you are considering the front slide as the fulcrum pt. for cantaleaver ?i'll accept that.But as a static load pushing down on two points wouldn't the load on the nose one foot away from the fulcrum points be less? Since both fulcrum points are still in contact with the ground. rebuttal then we move on to find some standard dimensions.

Standard stance and width of insert placement for future consideration of 2nd generation plates and hardware that is non 4x2,4x4,4x6 anyone have a number in mind???

Was that plate failure or board failure as a result of long nose on plate?

Unlike the load point from your big heavy foot and boot ,the load point of the plate nose will be less. 1/2 per foot? (in length).But then it might scratch the top sheet.:)

After you put the plate on and fold the nose? Ouch! All plates should have a nose!

AS time progresses the point will be that you don't need that big beefy board once plates catch on.Put a nose on the plate to support the board and design a more forgiving board.It's not about the plate as much as it is an evolution in boards.But make plate hardware that fits lots of different boards.

Being a board builder you should realise that with a plate on your board the normal loads on the nose of your board are no longer supported by your big footprint ie: binding It would be prudent to extend the nose of the plate to prevent board failure in loose snow or hidden objects. Warning to board builders use of poorly designed plates could damage your reputation!:lol: