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samhell
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
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Location: San Diego, CA USA
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 Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 1:39 pm Post subject: Galac "Galacized" Bennetts......... |
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These are a Bennett that has had lots of love put into it.
Faced hangers, sanded, buffed hanger bodysmoothed bushing seats, polished pivot,
sanded/lubricated pivot cup, custom paint, steel spacers,
custom bushings/washers, smoother response, more fluid feel..
I have just added these to my website:
http://www.galaclongboards.com/galacized.html
The full details are on my site including all info and price.
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samhell
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Location: San Diego, CA USA
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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Update: There will be a Grade 8 Kingpin option for $3.00 extra.
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peppermint rhino
Joined: 02 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Holy shit, those things are absolutely beautiful Sam. Great job, I wish My board had a bit more color to it so that I could put a pair of those on my Pulse and not have them look out of place. |
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samhell
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks man, yeah they make me drool...
You could always just go with black baseplates and lettering.. 
And a little color always livens things up....
A nice colorful shiney Bennett on a pulse would be the bees knees..
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timbo666
Joined: 30 Aug 2009
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Location: Coventry - England
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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Hey hey!
I've already asked this on an email to the Galac email address, but it might be good on here also?
Are the steel spacers bearing spacers? (as in inside the wheel between the bearings?) or as a spacer between the hanger and inner bearing?
What would be great is if the hanger was a 5.0, milled down so that fitting a regular speed ring would make it equivilant to 4.3 wide, and a larger spacer/speed ring to make it equivilant to 5.0 wide. awesome.
also, are they available unpainted? or in black paint? for the more conservative look?
Finally, can they be posted to the UK? for a price?
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samhell
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, the spacers that come with them are spacers
for between the bearings. These will most likely end up
being Khiro spacers, as the grade 8 one's are hard to come by.
I could definately take a 5.0 an dmill down the hanger to
the width of a 4.3 and use Sk8kings small brass spacers to spcer it out
and five it a little verstility in track width.
But.. I would have to charge somewhere in the neighborhood
of close to $20.00 for that option... But I could definately do it,
I've milled a 4.3 down and taken off 3/8" per side of th eaxle and use
my custom stainless stell spacers and speed rings.
This is what it looks like, I use this as a tight slalom front truck.
It's work amazigly and I love it.
this is with the stainless steel spacer s and heavy shouldered
speed rings I was talking about.. But I do the same thing with
Sk8kings mini brass spacers and a bearing spacer.
These are the Sk8kings spacers I was talking about, these things are great.
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timbo666
Joined: 30 Aug 2009
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Location: Coventry - England
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| samhell wrote: | Yes, the spacers that come with them are spacers
for between the bearings. These will most likely end up
being Khiro spacers, as the grade 8 one's are hard to come by.
I could definately take a 5.0 an dmill down the hanger to
the width of a 4.3 and use Sk8kings small brass spacers to spcer it out
and five it a little verstility in track width.
But.. I would have to charge somewhere in the neighborhood
of close to $20.00 for that option... But I could definately do it,
I've milled a 4.3 down and taken off 3/8" per side of th eaxle and use
my custom stainless stell spacers and speed rings.
This is what it looks like, I use this as a tight slalom front truck.
It's work amazigly and I love it.
this is with the stainless steel spacer s and heavy shouldered
speed rings I was talking about.. But I do the same thing with
Sk8kings mini brass spacers and a bearing spacer.
These are the Sk8kings spacers I was talking about, these things are great.
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A 5.0 hanger milled down to a width of 4.3, allowing the use of spacers up to 5.0, sounds absolutely ideal! It's now just whether it will become less strong, and whether I need 5.0 width?
I'll send an email as I've got loads going on in my head! hahaaa!
cheers for the info! |
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samhell
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Location: San Diego, CA USA
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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I emailed you back and tried to answer all your questions... 
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samhell
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
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Location: San Diego, CA USA
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Here a few shots from Malakai Kingston at ASR yesterday
of the Galacized Bennett... This was recieved extremely
well by those in the industry who saw it...
I have big plans for these, and thet are already underway...
Erik Basil holding the Galacized Bennett at ASR...
Stock Bennett hanger on the left, Galacized on the right..
Resting on the POD Micro...
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aschmidt
Joined: 03 Jul 2008
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Location: Bakersfield CA
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| Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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John- those trucks are a thing of beauty! Nice work.
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