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Titanal is made by AMAG Rolling in Austria. Its very expensive (the minimum quantity order is 50kg, about $1200USD) and getting it shipped here is equally expensive. www.amag.at is their site. If you want damper skis just focus on neutralizing harmonies by causing vibrations to pass from one density...

The main benefit of center mounting bindings is that you have near equal swing weight for spinning. However, if you ride switch frequently it is actually better to mount your bindings 1.5cm-2.5cm behind true center (by true center I mean the center of the effective edge of the ski). This will center...

They make refillable cartridges/bulk in sytems for the Epson 4800 too. Check out: http://www.sublimationink.net/bulksystemspecial-SF.html All the smaller factories I know use custom built flatbed presses. I'm not sure what brands the big big factories use. Durasurf uses roller presses for their in-h...

Mine uses a pneumatic bladder (like the ski presses) and a beefy cat-track made of 2"x3" aluminum tubing. A heat blanket is sandwiched between two sheets of 1/8" 6061 aluminum and is attached to the cat-track. The heat controller unit should be at least a 20amp 220volt system, thus a ...

I own an Epson 4800 and it works well. Team8 is right, inks are expensive ($1500 for a full set), I have not had any clogging issues (knock on wood). I've build my own flatbed sublimation press as well. It wasn't cheap, but definatly cheaper than ones you can buy and it works great. If you build one...

I can also attest to shopbots. I got one last year and it has been perfect. For the price and the support you get it cannot be beat. It's a GREAT first CNC machine.

You can also use it for side projects for extra $$$ to feed the ski building addiction...

G-man- Its crazy how we are not getting the same results. I cannot pry apart the layers with a heavy duty box knife. I even tryied a chisel and they still held. The only bonding difficultly I've had so far has sometimes been the topsheet to the glass underneth. Anyway, like you said....a mystery.......

I don't know what resin you guys are using but I use QCM and a heated press. I don't believe you can get UHMW and ABS to bond if you get the material from a general plastic supplier. The ABS and UHMW the big boys use are specifically made for adhesion. As far as I know this type of ABS is not availb...

K2, in particular, had a number of sandwich options. Some of them, upon close inspection, had no visible sign of a glass layer between the top sheet and the sidewall material... just a very tight bond line between the two plastics. However, a slight tri-axial composite pattern was visible in the to...

Five Axis in California and Revolution in Odgen, Utah are factories that I believe do small runs. I'd try Revolution first.

Hope this helps.

I have used an extra layer of the triaxial glass (so that would equal 6 total layers of glass underfoot), and my bindings have held super strong. I'm a freestyle/freerider and I took some pretty BIG wrecks last year. Granted, I'm only 150lbs but I ride my DIN at about 10-11 and my bindings still hel...