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stridey · Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 48

Sometimes its worth jumping in the car and visiting suppliers....probably one of the biggest suppliers in Europe sometimes finds boxes of gear that have managed to lose themselves, and fallen off the ordering system.

So, hidden away they found a nice box of Gullwing Kingpins, 'indestructable', and like Grind Kings but longer....perfect for mods...

And as I took a ton of them they said they felt sure they had seen some slightly longer ones.....but if you've ever seen the last scene from Raiders of the Lost Arc you'll understand they may take some time to find.....

here is a regular GK kingpin and the Gullwing one...

egret · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 84

Have you asked Thane at Griffinsk8?

http://pavedwave.myfastforum.org/about696.html

GriffinSk8 · Joined: 30 Apr 2009 Posts: 15 Location: San Diego

Yes I have some of them new old stock kits with the tool.
If you are looking for them you can email me at thane@griffinskateboards.com
Thanks
GriffinSK8

stridey · Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 48

yeah, I saw that thread , of course. I thought the longer Grind King kingpin was limited in quantity and reasonably hard to source?

Its great to see you have a stash of the Gullwing ones, and I know supply of those in the UK is in the 100's rather than 10s, so there is probably enough to satisfy demand (and possible replacements) for years, hopefully.

If you run out, sending stuff back to the US is possible.

In the UK we use the metric system, and while researching and developing the Virage trucks we took the decision to use US sourced Grade 8 bolts. You'd perhaps think simple things like bolts are easy to source in the UK, but to get genuine Grade 8s we get them from the US. So finding these bolts was great news for us.

We will offer them in our 'Grindy' conversions, details here:
http://www.octanesport.co.uk/shop/independent-baseplate.html

We dont do a similar conversion to Bennetts as people like you do that well already, we could of course do it the easily, but Its not how I like to do business. I think its bad ettiquette to do that - hope it makes sense!

Good luck with your conversions, always good to see things like that.