New Kingpins, Old Trucks

Project Old Board took a few steps closer to being completed this afternoon.

Replaced the old kingpins with some new ones from my trusty bolt man Don at Apex Fasteners.

Went for some slightly longer ones as the thread in the baseplate is a bit worn, got 2.5" ones, a bit too long as they now bottom out on the deck, either gotta get them shortened or fit risers.
Turns out I had two different lengths in there, the one on the back being shorter.
I don't think the fact that the new ones are fully threaded will matter.

Also fitted the new bushings and replaced the bearings with new ones for now, I think the old Nachi ones will clean up okay.

New deck to come I think if I can find something suitable(ly cheap)

Something Old, Something New

Not Blue or Borrowed though.

Latest acquisition turned up at work in a particularly skateboard shaped package.

Pretty funky griptape pattern.

ACS 500's & Powerflex 5's

Stickers (bottom) ACS, (top) Steve Daniels, Plymouth. Any ideas on the middle one? 

Kingpin crime!!!! Where's my Elephant Wrench?

A friend mentioned on Facebook that they had this a couple of years ago, it's older than him, I told him if he ever wanted to get rid of it I'd have it, so it needs a bit of work. 

I hadn't realised that the deck was a fibreglass one, almost in a Fibreflex style, it has a strange green material in between two layers of white glass. Very cracked and is shorter at both ends that originally. Now measures 25" x 6.5" roughly.

Powerflex 9's

Never had any myself but rode a mates board with some, nice wheels.

Interesting to see in this ad from July 1978's Skateboarder that they were still measuring them in inches.
My theory was that after Kyptonics came out measuring wheels in millimetres everybody followed suit, oh well bang goes that theory.