I was buzzing after and all keen to add a new complete to cart, but the prices have brought me back to earth.
The trucks I have are off an old Penny clone with Bones bushings but it’s not all that ‘turny’ so I think, if I take things a stage at a time, replacing these would be a good start. Maybe something that would fit the standard truck pattern?
Started with the black anti concave one before the heated wheel trucks were actually available so set it up with some suregrip trucks and 56mm rough riders.
The suregrip trucks were fine, but the casting on them was super sloppy, so the hardest part was finding enough washers to stop the wheels rubbing.
Eventually I scored some heated wheel trucks and they turn as good, if not better than the sure grips did.
The second polarizer was a bit of an accident. Wanted to try the flat shape and a local shop was doing a stock clearance, so scored two 9.5 heated wheel boards, the track and field polarizer deck and another set of trucks for $300, which was about 60% off retail.
So set that one up and had a fair bit of fun with it using the wheels off the original, until I scored a second mint set of rough riders for free on a local buy nothing Facebook group. So now have both setup.
It’s only in taking the photo that I realise both at the same length, but the track and field was set up with a longer wheelbase. Both were undrilled variety and I mounted both sets of trucks by eye, comparing their placement to photos and the current crop which are pre drilled.
I find the black one a lot more fun, so may tweak the track and field to a similar spec.
With the two I have, the black one has the anti concave, which if you embrace that, you can’t, but you don’t really miss it either, the other, the tail is too pointy to really try, and the trucks aren’t really set right for it either.
The trucks above are some 7 inch Trackers that I got from a friend who seems to have a inside line on multiple Australian distributors random cast offs (eg. he has screens for old Vision/Santa Cruz stuff produced under license and does bootlegs of them).
My other two polarizers are both the heated wheel trucks. But my first one started with some Sure grips, which were the standard before Heated Wheel released their own trucks. The Sure grips are really inconsistent in their casting, so it can cause your wheels to rub on the hangers unless your stack a number of washers to prevent it.
The original solution was cutting up roller skate plates. Which is next on my list of polarizer projects.
I reckon scoring a Penny board (or off brand equivalent) and sticking some decent soft bushings in the trucks and putting those on something you custom shape yourself could be a good launching off point for a lot of people.
) are into these so I thought I’d start a new thread to keep it all contained.
