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- Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:34 am
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Twizz 2010/2011
- Replies: 68
- Views: 38199
I follow you one the tension/compression of the fibers, I had not thought about it that way, makes sense. As for the amount of resin in the skis I think it's still unknown- I am thinking that it is possible that even though you used twice as much resin during layup it is possible that you squeezed m...
- Wed Feb 02, 2011 7:06 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Twizz 2010/2011
- Replies: 68
- Views: 38199
How do you know the wet ones have more resin in them? If you disagree with my comment I invite you to do a test, layup a small strip of FG wet on a flat surface, do the same with another piece and compress it with 60 psi- you can use plastic wrap, a board a little larger then the FG strip and some w...
- Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:14 pm
- Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
- Topic: Twizz 2010/2011
- Replies: 68
- Views: 38199
- Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:55 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
- Topic: Autoclave
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3632
I have been thinking about building an autoclave for various projects and I thought it would work well for building skis as well. It will depend on if I can find a large diameter piece of pipe for not too much cash. As for heating you could build a box out of blue/pink board around the pipe and thro...
- Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:26 am
- Forum: Yard Sale (non commercial)
- Topic: CNC Template Service
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15372
I have a cnc router with a 6'x12' table that we are setting up to cut ski cores in small batch orders (ie: singles would be fine) and offering the service to people who want to build there own skis but don't have the time/space/whatever to built and store all the equipment for each step. We would al...
- Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:44 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
- Topic: CNC machines
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22215
I am relatively new to the cnc world as well and have been working with a few different CAM packages, Here is what has worked for me and what has not worked so well: MasterCam- Picked up a copy of X3 and started learning it- seems pretty powerful but takes a lot of time to get comfortable with it. I...