DIY Long Distance Pumping Skateboards

This is a short video describing how I built my two LDP boards. You can build great pumping boards yourself by repurposing cheap decks or pressing your own, and custom brackets are cheap and easy too (once you figure out how to bend them, oof).
They are a study in function over form. They aren't going to win any beauty contests, and they aren't intended to. Just fun projects that translate to great pumping out on the footpath!
Links to some of my components:
Aluminium flat bar: www.ebay.com.au/itm/294309930907
Spherical bearings: www.ebay.com.au/itm/380623509965
Aircraft grade kingpins: www.ebay.com.au/itm/352629525...
12mm rose joint (tie rod end): www.ebay.com.au/itm/232655087...
Gbomb SDF: www.gbomblongboards.com/produ...
Beernett Trucks: www.beernettskate.com/product...
Links to my inspiration videos:
Skate Therapy - Major Arc on a pumping longboard: • Long Distance Pumping ...
Skate Therapy - Long Distance Pumping DIY - The poor man LDP: • Long Distance Pumping ...
Beernett modified trucks: • Beernett with adjustab...
The geometry setup for my original top mount pumper came from this guy: • Longboard pumping setu...
Modify a truck with a spherical bearing yourself: • Bennett Vector modific...
...and too many "Laminate your own skateboard deck" videos to list here

[@rollypollyguy3976]

The rear axle on the modified vault doc is ingenious! Very rad way of reinventing the truck. The science of skate

[@russell7505]

Impressive workmanship!

[@krishnansrinivasan830]

I really really like the one's with the Major arc trucks setup :) Brilliant :)

[@mathieubelanger3825]

Thank you so much! Very instructive, very generous.

[@taiwoonwoon8275]

very cool! thanks for sharing!

[@ogokforever]

Hi dave. Cool built. On the home made board what’s the exact rear bracket’s wedge degree to flip mount paris tkp?

[@DaveNZ3339]

It has been bent up 24 degrees from horizontal to get it to zero. I think I read that the Paris pivot angle is 25 degrees, so standing on the deck must get it that last degree

[@chris131shadow]

Just finished a similar build today, need to find a way to bend my plates eventually

[@DaveNZ3339]

Nice going! I'm about to do another build for a friend. I'll put up a video of how I bend the plates this coming weekend.

[@daniele_trioni]

Wow, a really great work! In your opinion which are the best trucks to mount on a LDP?

[@DaveNZ3339]

Thanks! After installing the Beernett front truck, I have built two more boards with Bennett 6.0 trucks that I modified myself. Love them. For rear trucks, both of the options in the video work great: the homemade 0deg truck or the Paris Street 129mm. Have a look at the recently modified top mount board on the LDP Facebook page: facebook.com/groups/longdistancepumping/permalink/8772162819476005/

[@daniele_trioni]

@@DaveNZ3339 wow, thank's!!!

[@wbskate]

Would love to try out your 0 degree bracket setup on my bandito

[@DaveNZ3339]

Wow, I just made another one for a friend who is building a Bandito. He's using a Bigdog F-15 front bracket and Bennett truck with my zero degree rear bracket and Paris 150 hanger. I'll put up a video next week when he's finished.

[@Rideables]

Amazing! Do you use annealing to bend these plates?

[@DaveNZ3339]

Thanks Max! No, still just using brute force (after creasing it with a cold chisel on the bend line). I have figured out how to clamp the piece to a long steel bar and bend it over a concrete slab in my garage. I'll make another video

[@Rideables]

@@DaveNZ3339 cool, I guess it indeed needs a big lever (or a hydraulic press which by its cost, I guess, would undermine the financial purpose of hacking, but still making something with own hands is priceless)

[@mathieubelanger3825]

@@DaveNZ3339 Hi Dave. Did you end up making that video? I just can't figure out how you managed to clamp the two bars together for bending.

[@vanderleivilelajunior1671]

Olá...grato pelo video! Sou do Brasil e tenho uma grande admiração por quem tem a iniciativa de fazer por si só seus ajustes. ...Poderia me dizer o tamanho das hastes de alumínio que serviu de base para os Trucks e os ângulos que você utilizou para montagem do seu LDP?

[@DaveNZ3339]

Thanks, I'm glad you like it! The aluminium pieces are 10mm thick by 60mm wide by 300mm long. They are bent to about 15deg www.ebay.com.au/itm/294309930907 Other links up in the description. Cheers

[@vanderleivilelajunior1671]

@@DaveNZ3339 Muito obrigado pela rápida resposta, acabei de fazer um aqui no Brasil...ficou muito bom...amanhã pela manhã vou testa-lo em um parque próximo daqui de casa....o próximo que eu for fazer, vou usar as medidas que você passou. Gratidão e sucesso!

[@DaveNZ3339]

@@vanderleivilelajunior1671 That's great. Best of luck and be sure to get some video!

[@denilsonmarques8424]

​@@vanderleivilelajunior1671 ola boa noite esses alongadores para truck onde vende?

[@denilsonmarques8424]

vc tem algum canal no KZbin para mostrar as q vc fez pq queria muito essas unidades para dar um up deferencial no meu longboard

[@SSJChar]

how do you feel about the thickness of alu plate you used? i was thinking of making some brackets but was going to try to use 1/4"(6.35mm).

[@DaveNZ3339]

I'm pretty sure that the 10mm plate is thicker than necessary, because it doesn't deflect or twist even with the lever effect of the long rear brackets. However, I think that 1/4" would be too thin unless you were making the bracket really short (like the front one on the homemade deck). The pieces are pretty cheap, so you might try a couple of thicknesses. Maybe an 8mm or 5/16" if it's available?

[@SSJChar]

@@DaveNZ3339 cool cool I'll give 1/4 a shot and see how it turns out first. I work at a manufacturing shop where we CNC route aluminum sheets and do CNC bending, all in house. The materials we bring in are 1/8, 3/16, 1/4 and 3/8. I think I'll design some front brackets in 1/4 and see how I feel about the rear in 1/4 or 3/8. But all this is a North American summer project lol

[@SpoonfulBurnside]

Great work. How do you find the strength of the 10mm thick aluminium plate? What grade do you use? Ian thinking if making one, but unsure about the strength, was thinking 16or 20mm thick. Why not use other materials like stainless steel?

[@DaveNZ3339]

The 10mm plate that I use is grade 6060. It takes tremendous effort to bend. For the 300mm long plate, I clamp 200mm of it to a 2m long steel bar and anchor the remaining 100mm section into a hole in my concrete garage slab. Only then can I bend it to the angle I want. After it is attached to the deck there is no way it will see any of those same forces to bend it again. The wood will snap first! I have been using these brackets for almost a year now, and they haven't deformed at all. I think 16 or 20mm would be overkill. For comparison, the G-Bomb SDF bracket is 8mm thick I hadn't considered stainless. I chose aluminium because it's easy to work with and it's cheap. Remember my motto, "It's ugly, but who cares?"

[@SpoonfulBurnside]

@@DaveNZ3339 I am think either make out of aluminium as you suggested it's easier to work with, or out of stain steel laser cut to shape with cutouts for drop mount and bent by press. I have the same truck Bennett and Randell. How do you compare the two zero deg rear truck? The flip installation with bent bracket (I am assuming 35degrees?) And the hanger only version. I am thinking first bend the bracket up 35deg then bend down 70deg. Then you will have a negative 35 degree bracket without need to flip the installation and no raise of the ride height. What you think?

[@DaveNZ3339]

@@SpoonfulBurnside I just built another ldp board for a friend using the flat, hanger-only bracket. It works so well I think I will do it that way from now on.

[@SpoonfulBurnside]

@@DaveNZ3339 I have just researched a bit more into this. You can have negative angles on the rear, said to gain efficiency pumping but loses some turning. I might give it a go. So if it works the front can back can be the same bracket with the help of wedged raised for fine adjustment. Where do you get these eyelets like joint with spherical bearing to hold the hanger?

[@DaveNZ3339]

@@SpoonfulBurnside all the links are up there if you click "more"

[@johnathanbanks5421]

Hello please get into touch with me just to pick eah others brains... I could really use some help or ideas I'm prototyping 6 Different boards ...I'm stuck. I am an apprentice with no guidance...HaLP!

[@fjtubie]

As you said: it's ugly, but who cares? 😁 not ugly, smart I say. If you can feel the stoke, who cares?