Grind Rails/Grind plate?

[morgan_bvrns]

I was just kinda thinking if you took basically the same setup as a TSI deck, but flipped it over and made like a polyethylene plate that would be slick to grind with so you could grind rougher stuff or stuff without wax. Then once it wears out, just take it off and bolt on a new one. Really just kind of a concept idea. Anyway, is there a way to get like plastic grind rails that you can put on a deck? My UP is like completely ground away, and I don't wanna start grinding into the actual deck.

 

[michaelchavez]

buff had ideas like this but he said they never fully worked

 

[morgan_bvrns]

Wasn't there someone who put grind rails on an Orion deck?

 

[Mikey G]

Proto had it on a prototype deck, and i believe they said in a video that they didn't move on with it because it takes a while to grind through a deck. With the Orion deck, you can also just replace the deck.

Now for putting a plastic grinding surface on a deck, my main concern is how do you attach it on the deck enough for it to be able to wear down and not hit bolts? When you have a grind plate on a deck with countersunk bolts in it, the countersunk bolts are only like a hair below the grinding surface, so once it wears down a bit it will start biting the bolts, and you will be catching on them.

 

[Grant Schofield]

no i thing buff talk about them in that super boring 10min. vid when hey first came out many moons ago tho

 

[Mikey G]

Exactly the video i spoke about Grant.

 

[Ryno496]

Proto had it on a prototype deck, and i believe they said in a video that they didn't move on with it because it takes a while to grind through a deck. With the Orion deck, you can also just replace the deck.

Now for putting a plastic grinding surface on a deck, my main concern is how do you attach it on the deck enough for it to be able to wear down and not hit bolts? When you have a grind plate on a deck with countersunk bolts in it, the countersunk bolts are only like a hair below the grinding surface, so once it wears down a bit it will start biting the bolts, and you will be catching on them.

Take drill bits and slowly decrease size through the plate so that the screws would sink low into the plate and sit more flush with the deck... I don't think I explained that good...

 

[Andrew Young]

Take drill bits and slowly decrease size through the plate so that the screws would sink low into the plate and sit more flush with the deck... I don't think I explained that good...

countersink???

 

[Blake]

Terry Price did a tutorial.

 

[R-Dubya]

I just think the idea of grind plates is kind of dumb. Skateboards had grind rails too for a while, and they became obsolete for a reason. If you're grinding through a deck fast enough that you don't think you got your moneys' worth out of the deck, you need to rethink the stupid shit you're grinding on.

 

[BrandonWeir]

Been thought of thousands of times. Isn't that great.

 

[Jon.]

I put grind rails on my pro model in the ghetto days. shit was og as hell