5-Minute Project: Drill-Powered Skateboard

Do you have a skateboard that is gathering dust in the corner of your garage? Breathe some new life into those wheels by zapping them with some volts. Specifically, attaching a battery-powered electric drill to the front of your skateboard will provide effortless nosegrinding and endless hours of fun.

Three factors will enhance your battery-powered skateboarding:

1. More Volts. Higher voltage battery-powered drills (at least 9.6V) will provide more minutes of skateboarding fun.

2. Greater Torque. Drills that can generate more torque will be able to move, ahem, heavier riders.

3. Big, Bad Rubber Wheel. The more rubber that meets the highway, the higher the performance.

Step 1 How to Make SkateBored

5-minutes
Cost: $2.80
Very Easy

Parts List

• Skateboard (salvaged)
• Battery-Powered Drill; at least 9.6V (salvaged)
• 25-inches of 1/2-inch PVC Schedule 40 (1.00)
• (2) 90-degree Elbow PVC Schedule 40 (.90 each)
• Large Rubber Wheel (salvaged)
• Cable Ties

Comments

[jimmytvf]

This is a very good idea, but you can make it even better. Make some threads in the wheel with a Dremel, then, attach to those threads, a threaded band that you can find in a dead printer or scanner, and the other side to the drill, this way you won't let the drill driveshaft get forced to make a movement that's not designed to do, like working with an angle, and lay it flat in the board

[Tmac121]

This doesn't work on a real skateboard. the axle shouldn't rotate.

[daggerofblood1243]

coulden't you just take out the motor and attach it up to da wheel then put a foot peadal switch on the the battery and solder all dat up???( a little more complicated)

[ducttape12]

best idea & easy idea

[lilybadea]

Great Idea and very innovative. This is very best idea to bring in use the waste. now like this one, the skateboard with the power of battery and drill machine have become a nice play thing for children.But i am thinking can we do this for kick scooters as well . Am interested in trying this idea once to my skaeboard. This will be fun.

[dragonfathom]

It'd be better with a system that lets you stand up.

[jsilve1]

could you attach a stronger drill to a bike

[TSC]

Yes you can!! look it up at youtube!!!!

[Raydoom]

tried it , just resulted in a ruined bike.
will try with a proper motor sometime...

[2 stroke]

i am currently using a chainsaw motor for friction drive on a 26 inch mountain bike with a homelite super two i am in the middle of making the mount my angle grinder burned out so ill have to wait and get another one ill post a slide show after i am done or even a ible

[Wesley666]

You could. I have a drill that we put a long metal rod through with people on either end because it you don't and it gets stuck it will flip you on your @55 so fast you won't know what happened. I think it would break your arm first, but it has a 2 3/4hp electric motor I think....but its not cordless... :(

[djread]

what is salvaged?

[inventordude14]

 salvaged pretty much means from ebay or the dump

[MaXoR]

Or to take from something broken, and put into something working. Broken stereo has motors, use motors to power small helicopter model.... that would be "salvaging the motors".

[carrotman42]

what part or definition?

[Odziz]

This goes one step further, a drill-powered bike. 'This Old House' beats 'PopSci' hands down!

Would be quite neat if it was combined with the 8020 Chopper.
8020 Chopper assembly

[sharp8873]

where can I get one of those

[geoslim13]

make mag did an article on how to do so in either issue 20 or 21

[rocker_man_2010]

HAy MAke IT, That's what this site is for is to build things yourself ---T

[KBHELLSPAWN]

HEY WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT wierd LOOKLNG BIKE THAT GUY IN THE VID WAS RIDING? ANYONE

[Labot2001]

we've always called them monkey bikes, but th term can also be used to describe a little motor-driven bike or dirtbike

[Wesley666]

They are also called mini bikes, clown bikes and folding bikes (if they fold that is)

[finnster]

monkey bike-that's what she said

[josh1324]

a little late, but how?

[KBHELLSPAWN]

Thanks

[lebowski]

here's the video from youtube...

[TSC]

That video was all pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shooby]

Damn, that's slooooooooowww. I remember when I used to skateboard, I had legs to use. They don't make 'em like they used to (kids, that is).

[halberdear]

dude if you think they make all skateboards like that u should see mine.

[cornflaker]

They don't make 'em like they used to (kids, that is).

[shooby]

I already said that cornfaker.

[toogers]

lol cornfaker

[shooby]

Yes, I like names. Because I can subtly tear them apart. Alors! Cornflaker est soudainement cornfaker. This pertains to the origins of cornflakes of course. The Kellogg brothers, those god fearing wackos! Ok, oven puffed corn with delicious milk makes even me feel pure. But, the Kellogg brothers used spiked anti-masturbatory rings on prepubescent boys. Come on. Cornflaker! Your name encompasses the legacy of masochistic pedophiles with too much spare time, too much access to a machine shop, and too much corn.

[cornflaker]

Dude I quoted what you said (that would be why its all italic and then made the kids part bold) because halberdear thought you were talking about skate boards not kids... Might want to read those comments again...

[shooby]

Ah, I thought haldberdear meant that he'd made his own version of this instructable, and that it was faster...

[cornflaker]

Ahh lol

[magganrchy]

That doesn't look really fast... is it faster? I understand if she was going slow because she's little.

[Ceiling cat]

That's because it's a photo-mantage.  They just took a few pics and edited them into a video.  It's not a "motion picture" if you will.  More like a slide-show.

[cornflaker]

I would certainly hope so... lol

[IdeasFromAir]

How long it will be running from 18V drill?