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doughboyshredder wrote:China direct?

Might as well just have your skis built there also.

Amen!

Madrussian: yup, Paul actually sent me an updated list of the steel they have. Sent an email back on the ones I want and I'm waiting for a reply. I'm placing a call in the morning.

Does anyone know what the price diffeence between "stock" steel and "scrap" steel is?

I agree with what everyone has said. Particularly the part about "we used the beams that were available" I'm going through the same thing right now. I just think that it would be nice to have a sticky for each of the pieces of equipment. That way the up and coming builders can see all the different ...

Hey Gang. I've been searching my nuts off trying to figure out the size of I-beam to use for my ski press and it seems that everyone is using different sized beams. Is there a reason there isn't a sticky with this info that everyone can input? Say: Size of beam, cavity size, size of air bladder, PSI...

Last year I had a guy stop at the house w/ his father-in-law who is a builder. They wanted to check out my setup. He's a member here at SB but I haven't seen him post in awhile, not sure he still follows the forum. Think he's from Framingham. Drop a line if you do. So his father-in-law said when th...

Hey Gang, I went over to skidesmond house to check out his press and other setups. Thanks Steve! After watching this forum for over three years, I think I'm ready to take the leap into ski building bliss. I brought my father-in-law with me (jack of all trades) and he had a great suggestion on how to...

I found this fairly funny. Don't play at work if the word "Sh!t" is going to get you in trouble:

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/5987841/

I see you are from Colorado. The way I look at it is: I would rather say at the bar with a nice frosted one in front of me "Whew I'm glad I had my beacon on me and lived through that" than 6 feet under snow suffocating to death "dang wish I had my beacon on me..." Check these out: this was in the re...

I like the idea of using material as a press. and I can see how it could be a pain in the ass to slide it between the material bags. I was watching Ask This Old House yesterday and they featured these: google: grabbittool ( i can't post links yet) It's used for gripping tarps or bags so they don't r...

This is WAY beyond a tire problem. I did the LSD test, (all 4 tires off the ground, stopping 1 rear the other keeps going) it seems to be ok, although, when i stopped both rear tires the fronts also stopped turning. That is weird....KT Your tires have to be 1/4 of an inch or roling circumfrance, ch...

this is pathetic that this is my first post, ive been hanging out for about 1.5 years in the shadows... My last car was a 2003 WRx and I never experienced this problem. However, there was this time I got rear ended and my rental car was a 2006 legacy outback. We took it from denver to Jackson Hole. ...