What the heck is Flexdex material anyway? Here's a shot of our manufacturing facility making a sheet
of Flexdex about 48" wide and testing the strength of a Slalom 30.
Check out the flex. That's 600lbs on the deck. Pushed it right past the bottom of the wheels!
In our manufacturing plant, you'll notice there are several layers of fabric and unidirectional fibers being directed towards a resin bath,
and then into a heated mold where at a temperature of
about 400 degrees F, the sheet quickly becomes a composite plastic material with about 30,000 psi strength.
Yes, you can run over a Flexdex (the fiberglas composite) skateboard with a car, and no physical damage will be caused - just scratches on the surface. If you run over the skate right on the trucks, then you'll break the trucks, you fool.
But, as the scores of people have found, most times the deck just bends, and after you retrieve the board, you keep on skating!
Rumor has it that we originally engineered this material
for the Army (in a green color) and the Navy (in a battleship gray color). Flexdex is pretty much bulletproof in thicker guages, but you wouldn't catch any of us hiding behind a Pro41 - we're lovers, not soldiers....We also make tubes (ever seen a sailboard mast?), grating (there's a pier out on San Clemente Island using Flexdex grating - a recent storm ripped it off the pier, and Navy divers had to rescue the grates from the ocean bottom - still works fine!), I-Beams (build a house?), and rods (1/4" to over 2" diameter) from this material...
This stuff is strong.
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