In hindsight its funny to poke fun at the fact that I was wondering if RTV type silicon would stick to fiberglass.

RTV type silicon is engineered to adhere to SiO2.... as in textile fiberglass...

This is straight off the MEI website, looks like they use fiberglass as the bonding medium 8) Technical Information Silicone Rubber Flexible Heating Blankets Michaels Enterprises flexible heaters are constructed using UL and CSA approved materials and components. Silicone flexible heaters are constr...

Yeah, I'm not too sure how fiberglass and silicon mix... kinda why I was leaning towards canvas or something. I know from a couple of bathroom remodel jobs that silicon sticks very well to canvas pants lol. IIRC tight weave canvas should be able to handle fairly high temps, a lot higher than ski pre...

I've been looking into picking up some nichrome wire to mess with... It won't be hard to get a parallel/series combo to get a desired wattage. I was thinking of getting some cotton fabric or burlap and stitching the wire to it, then coating the top and bottom in silicon. Then you could literally pre...

Lol this feels like 4chan,
The internet is such the perfect hate machine...

This thread did make me wish I were 16 again though!

The plan is to space the metal ribs ~14" apart. So the longest span will be 14" The beams came out burly... ~100lbs a piece! I pretty much copied the structure from Falls's press.... Not that I've made any skis yet, but the plan is to use the press exactly like shopvac/plywood have. Just t...

I decided to laminate some DF 2x4's for my press beams. In retrospect I probably didn't save much over using metal. I kind of just wanted to see if I could make some enormous beams... The press will be contained by 6 metal ribs. These are fixed and will be used in the same manner as people have been...

Ahh ok, I get it. So your angle of plane is set by placing your reference line on the cut line. It does make sense that any error in setup would get amplified by each pass... I wonder if you could somehow reference the fence to keep the side of the core square to the bottom? I think I might have to ...

Hello all, I'm finally making some progress towards my ski building dream. Hopefully I can represent NM well enough 8) First some shop pics (just cause we all love pics): Table saw project that I just *finished* (got operational) http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Wg1MC2gQUq8/TNED0CPF1hI/AAAAAAAABBw/zdGQj8feQy8/...

I suppose I still don't see how a jointer could profile a core? There's no way to guarantee that one side of the core is parallel to the other. I think it could work if you attached the core to something square that could ride against the fence? Every time I try to use my jointer for something other...

I think being able to try techniques that would be unfeasible for most commercial manufacturers is the biggest draw for diy skis. There's waayyy too many factors involved to say (without A LOT of CAD) how a cambered core will react, we can really only speculate. In the spirit of this and any other d...

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Ouch! Are the knives sharp? Adjusted? I have a shoddy new age shop style delta thickness planer and never try to take more than 1/16 off when dealing with hardwoods. That core looks like it took a beating... It almost looks like the core popped up under the cutterhead and started to smash back and f...

Priceless irony...

If you look around, 7 1.75" (~6000lbs break) straps can be had for $50-$60. For a single ski press @40psi this should yield a safety factor of ~2. Not great, but you could always add more.

Otoh if Montucky is really hooking it up I'll pm him before I buy anything