Traditional is still my first choice. And the Mass Produced T-shirt is great, especially since I write Barcode decoding software.

yeah i saw that

Cal and I will be taking our home mades to Salt Lake City this weekend to finally get to try some powder skiing. The central New York winter has not been long on powder and my bases have suffered from skiing 4 inches of fluff on top of rocks. Look for us at Snowbird, Brighton, Alta and Park City!

If you are sloppy (as I am) and excess epoxy isn't contained well then you may have the mold epoxied to the press. I've had to come in from the sides and crowbar the mold off the base.

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http://media.newschoolers.com/uploads/member/pictures/1136226936MySkis.jpg These were designed to be powder skis but we've only had hardpack so far this season here in New York so I had low expectations. I thought they would flop around and be unstable at speed. But I couldn't have been more wrong!...

I have to apologize for my tardiness in writing up my synopsis of our ski building adventure. So let me at least write up a summary of our press construction and some of the lessons learned. My son Cal (*Armada*) and I started putting together the materials for making skis after he found the SkiBuil...

My son Cal (*Armada*) and I would love to be able to get a couple of SkiBuilders.com tee shirts. And if SkiBuilders.com is a financial drain on you guys We would be happy to donate. Maybe thru PayPal or via a check/snail mail. I can't adequately express my appreciation to the 3Ks for this great web ...

Here are the places I have used for UHMWPE (P-Tex)

http://www.k-mac-plastics.com/uhmwpe-sq ... -stock.htm

http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/produc ... %5Fid=4226

Greg.
My son and I are going to pressure test our frame this weekend so I am very interested in your results.

What diameter rod did you use?
Would doubling up on the nuts have helped?
At what pressure did it fail? how many sq. inches?

Tom