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Richuk · Post by **Richuk** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:03 am

I know you have tried Formica. Look at the link again, it tells you what type of paper they use, 'transparent layer of alpha cellulose paper'. It may not be available commercially, but it may help suppliers understand your needs.

If you have someone printing T-Shirts locally, then you have access to dye sublimation at the size you need. E-mail your design over if you like and I will send you some prints

... If no-one in the US will offer to test your HPL for sublimation, then send me that too and I'll get it done for you.

For future reference, this is a simple controller you could use http://www.vego.nl/kemo/11/11.htm. If your HPL sublimates, I'll check whether I have a suitable heater gathering dust - I think I might have something A4 size, sound like a plan?

skidesmond · Post by **skidesmond** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:40 am

Ok, Rich gottcha, read the article a little closer.... Finding alpha cellulose paper is easy, but transparent alpha cellulose paper might be a bigger challenge, but that's what the internet is for

Finding a local T-shirt printer is no problem.

I think part of the problem I had with the packaging labels, vellum vs rice paper, is the ink is absorbed by the rice paper and doesn't run when coated w/ LPU. But I'm assuming the ink on the packaging label and vellum doesn't penetrate and instead sits on top of the paper, the LPU dissolved the ink and it ran.

I'll see if I can find transparent alpha cellulose paper and use that for personalizing the ski. The vinyl sticker is ok for now. May switch to screen printing at a later time (when I run out of stickers).

Still need to try the water-slide paper too.

Thanks for the offers!

Richuk · Post by **Richuk** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:06 am

Whatever works

MontuckyMadman · Post by **MontuckyMadman** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:35 pm

What is this a4 heater you pseak of? Did I miss something as to how you are sublimating? I doubt I can sublimate with my homemade blankets they just don't ramp that quickly like sublimation needs.

Brazen · Post by **Brazen** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:12 pm

you can.

MontuckyMadman · Post by **MontuckyMadman** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 5:07 pm

Prolly take 2 hours to get to 350F.

chrismp · Post by **chrismp** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:54 pm

a4 is just the size of the heater

a4 is a common paper size just like the US-letter format. its approx 21x30cm.

OAC · Post by **OAC** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:15 pm

Great work SD! I've had some time lapse in my ski building.

skidesmond · Post by **skidesmond** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:26 pm

OAC Thanks. I may have another order in the works but in the mean time it's time to make my shop more efficient.

Richuk · Post by **Richuk** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 12:58 am

I think Hiheat.com have been logged on the forum before as a good smalll off-the-shelf supplier. It might have been G-man would used them in series within his press for a while - can't remember.

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:51 pm

Great memory Richuk. Yes, I have about 20 heaters from Hi-heat. Been using them for about 6 years and have never had a failure. Hard to beat the prices on the 'catalog' heaters (they're short'ish, but I don't use full length heaters in my presses), and they're usually delivered within 2 days after I place an order.

G-man

Richuk · Post by **Richuk** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:11 am

Thks G-man - some journals are scorched into my memory. Twenty sounds like quite an operation, I look forward to an update

skidesmond · Post by **skidesmond** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:09 pm

I noticed I haven't posted here in a while but I have been busy making skis and following the work of the rest of the crew here with the great work that's going on in this forum.

I have one ski in the works and another I'll be starting in a few days. Also I have a friend whose son is building a long board for a school project I volunteered my press to press his long board. We'll be pressing that tomorrow night.

I'll post pics of the latest build tomorrow. Stay tuned.

skidesmond · Post by **skidesmond** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:48 am

I made this ski for teaching. Had some fun with the graphics. It's on the soft side and is a design I've used many times before. Here's some specs:

168cm, 3-10-3, 124-72-108
core - maple, ash, douglas fir
tip fill - 3mm of ash veneer
fg - 19 oz
epoxy - QCM
Fabric topsheet - Joannes Fabric
System 3 linear polyurethane

btw - started a blog for this build also. It has some more details if you're interest. http://desmondcustomskis.blogspot.com/

Materials used for the build:

Wood Core:
The binding area is ash, middle area in front and behind the binding area is douglas fir and the side wall is maple.

The layup was typical as my other builds.

Pics of the skis hot off the press:
Initially they look good.

tails good:

Tips are good here but later they started pulling away and I had to fix them. I forgot to prebend the tips (it's always something!). The epoxy is still pliable if you reheat it at this point. So I carefully added a little bit more of epoxy and used a heat gun to soften up the tip a little bit and used C-clamps and mini-clamps to fasten the edge back on. Holding fine now.

Special ingredient :-)

Pics with the flashing removed and ready for poly:

The next few days will be spent applying poly and cleaning the bases, then mount the bindings. Hope to test them out next weekend.

I just found out my Sno-CadX is broken (argh!)

chrismp · Post by **chrismp** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:59 am

wow, i loooove the fabric you used! they look awesome!

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