Hey everyone welcome to another Evolve Weekly.
This week we're going to take you through how the clean
your Evolve Board
and how to regrip the deck.
So there are few ways we can look at clean your skateboard
deck ranging from the very simple
all the way through to the more involved process
involving a pressure washer.
The first method I'd recommend involves a toothbrush
or a nylon brush
and just spot cleaning the deck basically
looking at where the dirt surfaces are giving
them a light brush seeing if you can loosen up the dirt
and clean the spot for you.
Sometimes if it hasn't been ingrained for a while
it does come away quite easily.
Sometimes when it's a little bit more ingrained you might need to
try a little bit more force
but basically it is just like you would brush your teeth.
Brushing across the deck.
No chemicals involved,
no liquids anything it's literally just
using the brush to loosen up the dirt.
That'll work on our Bamboo ONE series
our Bamboo GT series our Bamboo
GTX
and also the Carbon models
but only the grip tape not the surface
of the deck itself.
Now the grip gum method I'd probably
do after I've tried using the toothbrush
or the nylon brush to loosen up the dirt.
If that hasn't helped the process I simply take
the grip gum. I dab it over the
dirty area on the board repetitively
for about 10 seconds just to pull some dirt away.
If after that it hasn't removed the spot
just move on to the next spot.
We may need a deeper cleaning method to get
that spot out.
For the Carbon GT model once we've finished
with the deck using the toothbrush
nylon brush and grip method.
I recommend wiping over the Carbon
surfaces using a slightly damp rag.
Given the coating that is on the Carbons that
should wipe dirt away very easily,
make it very easy to clean.
If there are small scratches however that you'd
like to get rid of, we've had good results using
car polishers specifically something like scratch
X and that definitely reduces
the visibility of the scratches on the board.
For the final method we recommend using the
pressure cleaner.
This will apply with all our boards
from the Bamboo series through to the Carbon model
though with the carbon it does only apply to
the deck lid itself.
So you simply remove that before you take
any pressure hose near it.
On the Bamboos series you have
to disassemble the board completely before we
start this. We only want the deck to
clean so we don't want any of the other components
nearby when we're carrying figure this out.
So to start we recommend removing
the eight bolts on the top of the bamboo deck.
This will help you remove the battery case which should drop
down very easily.
Make sure you have something under it to support it
because you don't want to drop this component.
It is the brains of your skate board.
Once this is away you will notice there's two cords
that run through your motor.
I recommend disconnecting these.
The first one will be a yellow plug on each
motor. The second will be a hall sensor
plug that plugs into the motor controller.
This will separate the trucks
and the battery case completely so you
can take the battery case somewhere safe well
away from water.
With the trucks themselves you can either remove
the kingpin first
or the base plates themselves whatever you find
easiest but to remove the base plates,
we recommend four screws on the top of the deck
supported by the T tool upside down
holding in the truck nut.
Remove these slowly,
once it's slightly moving remove the second
kingpin which is on the truck arm of
your skate board
and this should allow you to pull the base plate away
and lift the board straight out.
For the Carbon board disassembly when we're
using the pressure cleaner we only need the deck.
There's eight screws on top of the deck,
they're only very small so use your small
Allen key to loosen these up
and simply lift the lid away.
This is the only part we'll take outside
and the only part that we'll try
and get near water.
If yo u're looking to regrip your Bamboo board,
firstly you're going to need to get the original grip
off now we recommend using paint
thinner type product to loosen up the surface
itself and then you simply
go through and wipe that away.
You can see one of our previous videos for a more detailed
explanation of how we did that.
But once you've got to that process we recommend
a full sand on the deck.
Giving a nice smooth surface to work
with and then you can either use a standard skate
grip tape,
a clear grip tape if you've done artwork
or for the best visibility something
like a clear spray on grip tape is a good option.
If you're looking to regroup your GTX
or your Carbon board,
both of these have a stick on style grip tape
already so you'll only need
a hairdryer
or a heat gun on a very low heat
just to brush over the board,
slightly loosen up that adhesive
and peel the grip tape away.
With the GTX you may be left
with some residue that you're not wanting for your
next grip tape design.
So I recommend either that paint thinners
or some other gentle solution
just to remove the stickiness away
and a light sand to give you the best surface to
work with.
So to reassemble the board I recommend
starting with the front truck
and then the rear truck.
But it is simply the four screws
on the base plate that we took off to remove
the board, simply the opposite,
T tool on the bottom screw
and tightened them in.
Flip the board over,
put your truck arm back
on and turned down the kingpin to whatever
tightness you prefer.
On the rear, it's exactly the same
but you may notice there are some cable retainers.
Please make sure you put these in on the front
truck bolts.
As this will help keep the cables up
and away from the ground
and help prevent damage to your board.
Once we have the cables up we simply plug
these cables back into our motor controller,
remembering the white square plugs into the
motor controller itself
and the yellow bullet plugs matching up to
each bullet plug in the inside
of the board itself.
Once this is done I recommend lining
the screws up above the board.
Putting two screws in loosely at one end.
Tighten them down slightly
and then turn your board on its side so you can line
those cables back up safely.
Once they are in tightly,
tightened both those screws down
and simply replace the rest of the remaining.
Thanks for watching.
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