Thanks to all who came to Flums today, pretty much all machinery and materials have found a new home

pmg wrote:If no one takes the Reichmann grinder you can sell it back to Reichmann afaik. They sell used machines.

Yeah - I have a company lined up who will buy it from me, but if a ski / board builder takes it first I'm happier :-)

http://i.imgur.com/U2gqFfl.png ^^Press detail showing box with transformer and digital temperature controller http://i.imgur.com/SpXvWOe.png ^^Press being unloaded, aluminium cat track, there are 2 firehoses with it http://i.imgur.com/7sPlH2R.png ^^DeWalt Bandsaw, used for cutting off mould flash a...

pmg wrote:Können wir 3 ja ne Fahrgemeinschaft machen

:-)

If you have a van with tail-lift it would be super easy to load even the heavy machines (press, base grinder, overhead drum sander) !

Akiwi wrote:Hey Dan, where are you in Switzerland?
A lot of that sounds realy interesting.

In Flums, Kanton St.Gallen - I currently live in the UK but I'll be in Flums clearing out the workshop from 19th - 27th November.

Hi all - Dan Graf here, not built anything for years as my IT business and 2 children and move back to the UK took over life ! I'm now planning to sell off all my remaining material and machines. Between 19th November and 25th November 2016 I'll be selling off - prices negotiable : Base material fro...

:D :D :D Dan Graf here - hello all ! I think this is the best way to get snoCAD moving forward, as Rich said further up I really am pushed in other areas and can't actively develop it. But I know you guys can - so have fun ! I'll sign up to GitHub too, and can advise or explain as far as time allows...

Hi All I guess I've got some explaining to do ! It's Dan Graf the erstwhile grafsnowboards person and snoCAD programmer Those of you who have got very young children or have started your own business, or project managed a house build will know all about sleepless nights and working all hours. I did ...

I started off with a steel cat-track but it proved too heavy to suspend well and switched to aluminium instead - plenty stiff enough and hands very well.

I did this with the skis we built recently. I didn't attempt to buy a printer or anything - that kit is expensive. But there's a company here in Switzerland who can do it - www.sitra.ch - great prices and good quality printing.

I wonder how this would look with non flood coated sublimated tops

probably pretty similar and very nice - but I reckon direct printing is probably just a little bit sharper...

By the way - full slideshow of building and testing here :

http://www.rideplaytime.ch

Seems like you ran some material through a printer Indirectly, yes. I don't have a printer large enough, but a guy called Thomas at Sitra in Köniz here in Switzerland does (http://www.sericora.ch). They can print digitally either directly on to the top of the material (including white material) or ...

what exactly caused the top mold to crack? Crap material. It was chipboardy stuff which was fine at first but I guess under repeated cycles - and especially with the heat coming from below it got extremely brittle. Perhaps if it had been solid it would have lasted longer, but it was interleaved to ...

Well, things didn't start off too well. First skis in the press and nearing the last quarter of the cycle - we hear a big BANG ! http://www.grafsnowboards.com/images/06112009.jpg Ooops - that's nasty. The upper mould - being built out of crap - disintegrated. However, by some miracle everything stay...

usually peel-ply (abreissgewebe) goes directly on the part and is kind of laminated to it. This is then peeled off after cure to leave a rough surface which can be overbonded. Release film (lochfolie) is a plastic sheet which does not bond - exists with and without holes. You can also use the perfor...