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New Skates

Cornel - 21-5-2007 at 11:44 AM

After a long weekend of lathe work (not really) here are my new offroad skates.
Rails, spacers and washers for boots - aluminum
Wheel hubs - chromoly
semi hard boots - old pair of rollerblades

Let me know if you want more details on this project.

Offroad Skates_1_Copy.JPG - 57kB

SecondWind - 21-5-2007 at 05:40 PM

They look great! I got sidetracked with another project (custom mountainboard) so my skates are still in parts.

What size are the rails and where did you get them?

Cornel - 22-5-2007 at 05:31 AM

The rails are aluminum (6061) 1 1/4 x 3/8 x 28''
I got these at a local metal shop http://www.industrialmetalsales.com/688.html
but you can get them at any metal supplier.

Here are some details of the rest of the parts:

Boot mounted to rails_2_Copy.JPG - 54kB

SecondWind - 22-5-2007 at 02:37 PM

Thanks for posting the link Cornel - nice job!