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by andrey
Mon Sep 14, 2020 10:50 pm
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Wooden backcountry skis
Replies: 6
Views: 3686

Re: Wooden backcountry skis

Regarding the edge gaps. You tack your edges with superglue?
Yes, I use akfix superglue with spray fix.
by andrey
Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:16 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Wooden backcountry skis
Replies: 6
Views: 3686

Re: Wooden backcountry skis

Thanks a lot for your message. Yes, my friends and I did ridden this skis a lot. They are designed for making a ski track in deep snow, going uphill in powder with backpacks and similar activity. The wooden base helps a lot when going uphill without using ski skins. Flat wooden base is faster than s...
by andrey
Tue Sep 08, 2020 2:09 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Wooden backcountry skis
Replies: 6
Views: 3686

Wooden backcountry skis

Here is my build process. Any comments are appreciated.

by andrey
Wed Mar 14, 2018 3:11 am
Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
Topic: Why not completely replace fiberglass with carbon?
Replies: 7
Views: 30038

Why not completely replace fiberglass with carbon?

As far as I understood, carbon young modulus is 3 times greater, than fiberglass. So 3 times less is needed, to get the same stiffness. Tension strength overpowers for typical ski tension forces for both materials.

So, what are reasons (except price) to use fiberglass?
by andrey
Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:45 pm
Forum: Materials and Supplies
Topic: quadriaxial fiberglass 0 45 90 -45
Replies: 1
Views: 2738

quadriaxial fiberglass 0 45 90 -45

In my city in Russia here we have a quadriaxial fiberglass manufactured, density 700 g/sq.m. bi-zon.ru/upload/iblock/db2/db2f3615a9d9a5afeb93801fc7b2ee92.jpg From information on this site and materials stores in US, a triaxial fiberglass it is mostly used with 19 os/sq.yrd density. So, the density i...
by andrey
Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:48 am
Forum: Ski/Snowboard Design and Layup
Topic: Here's a mad experiment that seems to work.
Replies: 26
Views: 16786

You may use just a flat wooden base without fish-style shape. If you make a special-type of steps when going uphill, skis will not lose cohesion with show. There is two secrets for it: 1. When you raise a ski, do it carefully and perpendicularly to snow surface without sliding 2. Powerfully put a sk...