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Building A Box With Whiteboards!!

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cbgski
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So I want to build a box for my yard, but as always the problem for a homemade box is a surface, unless you have money falling out of your pockets. So I got the idea to use around 15 little whiteboards (the ones you use at school) as a surface. I have no idea if this would work or not. It seems it might either not be slippery enough or would scratch up so fast that It wouldnt be worth it. Now i could get 15 ft of material, thats 15 whiteboards a foot long and 8 in wide, for around 25 bucks. Should I try it, and if not how much am I going to end up spending and where can I get another surface.
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Nov 12 2014 10:47PM
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TomDavies
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this sounds like something that seems like a good idea, but is really not. like reading a sentence brett fisher wrote.
Nov 12 2014 10:59PM
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Dobber
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Whiteboards will probably get scratched to shit really fast.
Nov 12 2014 11:04PM
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cbgski
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if anyone sees this and has tried this pleas reply with your outcome
Nov 12 2014 11:06PM
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HeathR
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They are not durable enough. They will fall apart very quickly. Plus it will be easy to get caught up in all the joints and be a pain to fasten them down.
Nov 12 2014 11:13PM
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lurking
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Bad plan
Nov 12 2014 11:15PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Do it and post a video.
Nov 12 2014 11:18PM
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RiccardoMasutti
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Bad plan
Nov 12 2014 11:39PM
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caucasian_chad
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If you're willing to spend $25 on something sketchy, why not just spend $60 and do the job right?
http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?sku=42597
Nov 12 2014 11:43PM
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toastyteenagers
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enough whiteboads for a box would cost around 400$~

whiteboards are really expensive
Nov 12 2014 11:45PM
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Willskiforfree
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Try it and use a lot of wax
Nov 12 2014 11:49PM
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perryhunter
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Isn't it just too thin to use a whiteboards? I think it won't work. Yet who knows? Just give it a try! Good luck!
Nov 12 2014 11:54PM
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cbgski
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toastyteenagersenough whiteboads for a box would cost around 400$~

whiteboards are really expensive


just actually not true, sorry
Nov 12 2014 11:56PM
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FrostyMN.
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I don't think this is going to work, but always worth a shot. Plus if you do get some sick tricks out of a sketchy set up definitely would look pretty sweet(video or it didn't happen). Durability wise though, I don't think it is going to last long IMO.
Nov 12 2014 11:57PM
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MAMERON
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xRAPHAELxthis sounds like something that seems like a good idea, but is really not. like reading a sentence brett fisher wrote.

wow
Nov 13 2014 12:12AM
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BrownEyeIn
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your fucked in the head.

save some $$$, ask your parents for $$

and buy some puckboard, a countersink bit for a drill, and make a box that will actually work and last 3 -4 seasons before you need new puckboard again
Nov 13 2014 12:29AM
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MeenaSmalls
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i say fuck it and go for it
Nov 13 2014 12:54AM
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.jif
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When it gets cold out a hard impact could crack/break the whiteboards. Unless you have a shit ton of whiteboards to go to waste then just buy some puckboard.
Nov 13 2014 9:47AM
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first_rodeo
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we did this like 5 years ago. the surface wears out quickly and screws that were initially below surface level became exposed.
Nov 13 2014 9:50AM
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270on420out
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A friend of mine used a fake granite table. It works well when wet.
Nov 13 2014 10:15AM
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oldworld_newlife
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cbgskiSo I want to build a box for my yard, but as always the problem for a homemade box is a surface, unless you have money falling out of your pockets. So I got the idea to use around 15 little whiteboards (the ones you use at school) as a surface. I have no idea if this would work or not. It seems it might either not be slippery enough or would scratch up so fast that It wouldnt be worth it. Now i could get 15 ft of material, thats 15 whiteboards a foot long and 8 in wide, for around 25 bucks. Should I try it, and if not how much am I going to end up spending and where can I get another surface.


Use recycled puck board from a hockey rink or whatever, that's what I was told. It seems like it'll work better too since it's designed to take s beating unlike a whiteboard.
Nov 13 2014 10:41AM
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nickburr
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JUST BUY A 1080 SKATE RAIL DINGERBOI
Nov 13 2014 12:22PM
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Skier-Jon
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White boards have hard plastic surface on top, but are usually constructed out of particle board. Particle board dissolves when wet so all in all i would say this is a terrible idea
Nov 13 2014 4:55PM
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O.Ps-Mom
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you could try it but how would you put them all together.. Just lay them on the ground?

It would be cool if it works, but I would stick with something that you know works well
Nov 13 2014 5:21PM
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eheath
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I can almost guarantee the first time you hit the box whatever whiteboard you land on first will shatter and then you'll catch your edge and demolish your janky box with your body.
Nov 13 2014 5:41PM
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suup
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Only if you steal them from your school.
Nov 13 2014 7:50PM
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yhprum1720
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I tried this with a ten foot long piece of whiteboard. It works if you just 50-50 it but if you turn sideways the edge of the ski completely shreds the whiteboard. Plus, all of the white part of the whiteboard chips off and gets stuck in the base of your ski
Nov 13 2014 10:52PM
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seb_hofmann
Posts: 155 - Karma: 1,453
why don't you just line a bunch of 1'' pvc pipes together and make a box like that? its super smooth, durable, easy to find and make and cost like $8 for a 8''x12' box. plus no joints
Nov 14 2014 2:24AM
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