yeah, i was being a cheapskate. i have a roll of the right stuff coming. so lets hope thats the issue!

despite the problems with my vacuum bag, my test piece turned out looking like a section of ski. kindof exciting.

tried a test press last night using a scraps of base, core and topsheet.
was havving trouble pulling a hard vacuum. wondering what people typically expect for vacuum levels when bagging? when doing a/c work i usually get 25-30 in/hg. i seem to max out a 18 in/hg last night.

right click on each .jar file and click open. it should ask you whether you trust the file as it is from an unknown source. after that it was smooth sailing.

spent some time in the shop last night getting ready to press. plumbing my vacuum pump to work for pressing skis. does anybody use a resin trap on the line leaving the bag? or is epoxy getting pulled up and throught the pump usually a non issue?

Hi all, Ive been lurking a long time on this board! I started a ski building project 5 or 6 years ago, and never got it finished due to house and work things. fast forward to now, over christmas i unpacked the crate it was all boxed up in, and decided to setup and finally try to finish. Im using the...

thats good to know! i mocked up my setup with the sheet of 14ga steel this week, using spacers for tip atail and camber and it seems like it will work. plus, starting the laying from a flat surface i should be able to easily align the layup to the steel and then to the spacers and clamps using marks...

anybody use a method similar to community skis for pressing skis? https://youtu.be/ml5mJhhFJYI?list=PLciGVdHbXmIEtB03pJ4DzSSVDtXFdQQeA&t=1390 seems like a simple way to press and easy to adjust camber/rocker without making tons of mdf molds. i could use a sheet of steel or aluminum layed flat as...

Got it working! finally figured out i needed to approve each file in the lib folder individaully for the program to load.

Im not having much luck with figuring this java business out. Most java tutorials i find are related to writing java programing, not getting an existing program to work. i may have to consider using a different program. i was aiming for sno cad because i rememeber the optimizations for skis beiiiinn...

ok, thanks! ill give that a try.

Hi, Looonnnggggtime lurker here, trying to finish a ski building project i started several years ago, but moving house forced it into hibernation until now. I am trying to get sno cad up and running on my mac. i remember being able to run it on mac os several years ago with no issues. Now i have dow...