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i have a heated skipress - i press with 60psi and heated up to 185 Fahrenheit - but after some skiingdays the edge dissolves at tip and tail 1 or 2 millimeters! I sharpen the edge before I press and i use west system epoxy! i hope you can help me! sorry for my english [/b]

what do you mean by dissolves?

a little gap between edge and ski :-(

You need to bend your edges so that if the bond weakens they do not pop away from the ski. Your edge should not need glue to keep in position. The clamps used when gluing the edge should be used to hold the edge down, not in. A lot of people force the edge in to place and think the glue will hold it in place.

Also, you shouldn't be sanding the edge. The edge should be sandblasted, and any sanding will damage the bond.

doughboyshredder wrote:
Also, you shouldn't be sanding the edge. The edge should be sandblasted, and any sanding will damage the bond.

Unless you've annealed them and there is carbon build up, in which case you either need to sandblast them again or go to town with some low grit sand paper.

iggyskier wrote:

doughboyshredder wrote:
Also, you shouldn't be sanding the edge. The edge should be sandblasted, and any sanding will damage the bond.

Unless you've annealed them and there is carbon build up, in which case you either need to sandblast them again or go to town with some low grit sand paper.

Sanding only may cause issues in the long run...... or, so I've been told.

a good clean wire brush wheel, on the end of a drill (dont use wire brush for any other tasks)? Then clean them.