OK cool. I'm definitely no mathematician, but I'm gonna guess and say that it can't be so easy to come up a simple formula if you want to be exact, since I am 99% sure that lots of skis sidecuts' are actually not just simple circular arcs, despite the fact that you often see stuff like "16m rad...

OK, so then does effective edge follow the sidecut AND camber, or only one of the two? Please elaborate.

I'm gonna sound stupid here, but I thought running length was simply the distance measured along the ski's edge between the contact points. Can you please tell me your definition of running length as well as effective edge?

Here's a link to the file on Rapidshare if any one needs it.

http://rapidshare.com/files/306083069/Skidimmsexe.xls

Me too please. Or how about hosting on this site?

Hi DG,

Any chance you will share some more details on the graphic technique? Seems like you ran some material through a printer? Please share some details!

today the parts we needed to complete our heating blankets have arrived, so we hope we can show you some pics of our finished babies after next weekend :) if they work like we hope they do, then this will be the cheapest heating solution out there. So you will post pics of your heating solution? Th...

That seriously rocks! Thanks so much for sharing, especially the drawing.

@MontuckyMadman: PM sent regarding Cordura.

Nice job on the blog Nate. Keep it up. I like the idea you came up with for the base- I think I'll do the same.

Nice breakdown! I just threw out the idea without giving it that much thought. I still wonder if it's possible to do it cost efficiently. (Byggmax has it for 60 SEK / $8.50.) I didn't catch the whole episode, but on Mythbusters they even suspended a car for a while with a rather small amount of duct...

@plywood: I agree with what you said, but my idea was to create reusable "bags," so I think it might be worth spending a few hours doing it properly. I also think alignment wouldn't be such an issue if you simply overbuild it a bit.

A few weeks ago I saw a duct tape cannon on Mythbusters. (Yes it worked.) This got me thinking: what about using duct tape to make the bags instead of cloth? The stuff is certainly strong enough if you use enough, but I guess that's the main question. I was thinking for most of us that the duct tape...

Thanks guys, keep the pics coming- this is exactly what I was after.

WEBBOY, maybe this is an example of what you don't want your shop to look like :D lol! well perhaps not, but still thanks for sharing. :) A somewhat unrelated question: how does that particle board work out in your press? any problems worth mentioning? I've been thinking of trying a cloth frame mys...