Base material for sidewall
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:43 am
Has anyone used leftover pieces of base material for sidewalls? I have all these long pieces of treated p-tex laying around, and it seems like that could work. ??
Hey sleepyycp. I used that method with my latest pair. we cut out the sidecut of the core, and then made sure it was smooth and vertical, then we resin'd 4 strips on each side of the ski. It was easy and worked great. Durability is pretty good too! you wont be pulling them off in a hurry...
The only problem we found, was because we used 4 strips each side, we used all of 2m of base material... and if we used less that 4 strips you have to have some pretty good ways to keep the core aligned during pressing... (even with 4 layers on each sidewall, for a small 10cm section we routed it away... so you have to be carefull. i would use more layers next time but then you are using so much time and base it becomes inpractical.
So bottom line i figure is, using ptex base as a sidewall is great. but only really good if you can aline your core to +-0.5mm core shift.
For our next ski we are just going to use plain old maple sidewalls, this way we get a really neat finish. Then we will use a marine varnish to seal them so they dont get all soggy inside from moisture. PTEX is def more professional tho.
Hope that helps.
schuss
