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16 hours ago, tarponhead said:
Union county at one person positive per 103 folks
Saw an ambulance wheeling somebody out of house on my run yesterday (older couple who been there ever since we were Westfield residents). EMT was a young (Fukin brave) girl.
300 more deaths (statewide) in last 24 hrs
If vertical is flat then we are flattening the curve...
Are you in Union County?
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4 hours ago, saltyant said:
Wow just wow, checked back on this thread and see I was mentioned once or twice and that's a grate radical pic of me on Elons. I've been doing online dating and pulling digits but it gets boring just texting and currently not being able to go out on dates. There is absolutely no way to expand my social circle in northeast PA, especially not in Hazleton, even in normal times, and especially not in this Covid 19 crap enivronment. Ok back to depressing Covid 19 news...
Whats your platform of choice? Grinder, JDate, Purrrsonals, Glutenfreesingles?
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8 minutes ago, AtomicSkier said:
Cody Townsend is @GSSucks's twin brother.
I am way sicker and get way radder than him, I cant even believe hes a pro.
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Everyone needs to Google Dick Pound, include IOC if youre not feeling risky.
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6 hours ago, Barb said:
Moab is basically shutting down the town since lots of people were flocking there and their hospital and resources are so small. People on FB are now asking “Where can I camp that’s warm since I can’t go to Moab?” Jesus just stay home! I admit that it took a while to sink in for me. Even on Saturday we were saying to each other “Should we be skiing?” But people who don’t grasp the gravity of the situation now, I just don’t get it.
A lot of the people that are flocking to Moab do not have an actual home besides their van, they can only go where they are allowed and the places they are allowed are shutting down. Its a real problem in UT right now. Im sure it is also an issue in CO.
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9 hours ago, Shadows said:
Hows durability seem?
No delamination yet.
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Got three days on the skis, they are pretty damn fun! First day at Snow Basin they were a bit hooky in spring slush, took a gummy stone to the tips and they are much better now. A pow day at Snow Bird and at Alta and a few face shots with a ski I built was pretty magical. They are definitely stiff and like to be driven. Great benchmark for the next pair, I wanted them to be stiff but they are a bit to stiff. Now I know for the next pair.
Middle bowl at Basin
Rats nest at Bird
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21 minutes ago, Shadows said:
The router has a 1"bit. So you planed a whole table 1" at a time?
yup
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that's pretty ingenious, did you engineer that?
I guess you could say that, a few years ago I built our dining room table from a slab of sycamore that was 40”x7’. Most planers are not big enough for a slab that size so it is common practice to use something similar to the above to flatten the slab. I borrowed from what I learned there and adapted it to make the core profile.
Rough slab
Flattening the slab
finished table
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13 minutes ago, GSSucks said:
The router sits on the sled and the router has a straight cut bit that is 1" in diameter. Its a plunge router so I can set the initial height and then that stays set to the thickness I want under foot or the thickest part of the ski. The bit goes thru the square hole and can be moved left and right to essentially make a planer out of a router.
Its kind of hard to see but where the sled is in the above picture the side rails on the jig are about 15mm off the bottom of the jig, at the far end of the jig the side rails are about 6mm off the bottom of the jig. I use double sided tape to attach the core to the bottom of the jig and then take passes back and forth or lengthwise to the core. As the sled follows the profile of the rails the thickness of the core is thinned in the tip and tail.
Does any of that make sense?
If this all continues, I will need to tool up with more tools, I was trying to use what I have and not buy additional tools for the first pair. I pretty much used the minimal number of tools possible I would say. I have a router, jig saw, belt sander and a small pancake compressor that were used on this project. A band saw and a drum sander would be a huge help, along with a planer for profiling the cores. All hopefully things to come!
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7 hours ago, indiggio said:
(it is ALTA after all),
Another Long Traverse Ahead
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25 minutes ago, AtomicSkier said:
Will it involve pictures of your broken thumb?
Yup
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31 minutes ago, AtomicSkier said:
Can this one be the @AtomicSkier pro model?
Sure, you give me ski dimensions but I design the top sheet.
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1 hour ago, AtomicSkier said:
Holy shit they look like skis! Can I hand flex them before @Justo8484 does?
Sure
23 minutes ago, eaf said:Wow, they look fantastic. I wish I could see the faces of folks where you're gonna be tuning these.
Are the binding pieces from two different sets?
Did I miss the part where you glued the bases? Or is the orange sheet it? What's that black strip in the middle, some sort of carbon?
And the variable thickness, is that due to the wood profile or epoxy alone? How did you even shape it that way?
Just the color way of the bindings. The orange sheet is the base, black strip is a carbon stringer.
The core is profiled to a thickness, under the bindings it is 11mm in thickness, it tapers down to 3.6mm in the tip and 2.6mm in the tail. It took some magic and a jig for my router to make the profile.
Thanks for the support everyone, already planning the next pair!
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Late night but got them finished and bindings mounted up. They are far from perfect, but definitely skiable. I forgot to order the beveling bit for the router so I improvised with what I could find locally, it worked. I’ll hit the sidewalls again once the bit comes in. Found out it is super important to cut right along the edge with the jig saw when deflashing them. The epoxy is way to hard to just sand away with a belt sander.
top sheets
profile
pivot mounting template
Going to drop them off for a tune tomorrow and I’ll be skiing them Thursday!
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15 minutes ago, AtomicSkier said:
I'm happy to supervise 😁
Supervisor supplies the beer.
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Woke up early as hell again this morning and managed to get one ski rough cut out of the blank. Held the two skis base to base and the rocker camber rocker profile looks great! Hand flexing also felt great! Hopefully I’ll get them finished up tonight in time to stick in a ski bag for a Wednesday evening flight.
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If you’re in a 27.5 boot you’re more than welcome to a few runs on them when I’m at Blue.
Popped them out of the press, took a bit of work to free them from the bottom mold but I got it. Bases look messy from all the excess epoxy but that will clean up.
Put them in the smallest room in the house with a space heater again to continue setting the epoxy. I’m hoping to have them cut out and finished tomorrow night!
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Yesterday I completely finished and pressure tested the press. Turns out I have about 0.06 “ of deflection at 40psi, it is plenty strong enough. I knew I would be doing the layup first thing this morning so last night I cut all of the fiberglass, carbon, vds tape and top sheet. I laid everything in reverse order with the top sheet on the bottom so it was mindless and I could not mess up the layup order. This was the smartest thing i have done because I was scatter brained thinking the epoxy was going to set faster than i did the layup.
I was also very paranoid about the core shifting on the base during pressing or layup so I drilled 1/4” holes thru the core then glues 3/16” dowel today to the base so I could set the core onto the locating dowels and be sure everything was where it belonged. 
Everything was flamed and cleaned with rubbing alcohol and ready to go in the morning.
I didn’t really sleep last night i was so excited so I was up at 530 and started the layup. Next time I need a buddy to mix epoxy and hand it to me, it took me about one hour and 15 minutes to do the whole layup and most of that time was spent mixing epoxy.
Everything is in the press now and I put a space heater in the room to add some heat and help the cure. I’ll fine out tonight how it all turned out.
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Wednesday night I glued the sidewalls to the core and then on Thursday I profiled everything. I had a bit of a learning curve and one of the sidewalls pulled away from the core a bit but was easily fixed with more superglue.
Next I attached the tip and tail spacers with some superglue and hot glue
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36 minutes ago, C1erArt said:
Any vacuum bagging in the plans?
I will most likely stick to pressing. I initially did some cost comparisons of press supplies and the cost of a vacuum pump and all of the consumables, from a cost perspective it did not work out in my head, hence why I went with a press. Cost of entry is why most people vacuum, and it takes up a bit less space. This will not be the only pair of skis I build, so putting a bit more cash out for the press was not the end of the world. My plan is to press at 40psig, the most you can get out of a vacuum set up is typically around 15psig, so Im hoping that adds a lot of durability to the skis, time will tell if my logic is sound.
19 minutes ago, eaf said:Will the hoses really get that fat to fill the vertical gap?
The hose is 4" dia, so in theory it would fill the vertical gap, the cassette with the skis in it will also add about 3/4 of an inch of height. I want the hose to inflate to about 2" tall when pressing to distribute some of the load across the cat track. I left the gap a bit big to be honest. Its easier to shim the bottom mold up than to rebuild the press when the cassette does not fit in!
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Press is starting to take shape. Hoping for a dry run tomorrow night!
More vertical supports will be added, I ran out of wood again.
I’m getting really excited to press!
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Blue Mountain - COVID-19 Update
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I was unaware, Im just next door in Essex.