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by gozaimaas
Sun Oct 04, 2015 6:39 pm
Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
Topic: Quality heat blankets found/cheap!!!!
Replies: 45
Views: 50274

I have not purchased yet. The exchange rate took a big dive so I'm waiting till after winter to order all my materials in the hope the rate improves
by gozaimaas
Sun Oct 04, 2015 5:52 pm
Forum: Aprés Ski Building
Topic: treefrogs new shop is finally under way!
Replies: 27
Views: 28888

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn191/sammer_album/DSC01397_zpsbecc3b69.jpg WOOOOW My entire country doesnt have a mountain as good as that, and you have it at the end of your street! I cant even begin to explain how jealous I am. I gotta move to another country! Ha reading this old post of mine...
by gozaimaas
Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:17 pm
Forum: Aprés Ski Building
Topic: PSA: Oily rag spontaneous combustion
Replies: 11
Views: 9756

Shit dude that's messed up.
An oily rag caused all that?
by gozaimaas
Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:12 pm
Forum: Materials and Supplies
Topic: Dealing with cdw
Replies: 14
Views: 14806

knightsofnii wrote:the 129 style is the most common around here and is coated.

Why can't they get you that? it's an "off the shelf" stamping for them.
I changed my base thickness to 1.4mm which gave me more options over the 1.2mm.
I ended up with P129 C01C
by gozaimaas
Wed Jul 08, 2015 4:25 am
Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
Topic: Quality heat blankets found/cheap!!!!
Replies: 45
Views: 50274

US$138 each + US$60 shipping from
 sales@chinatopright.com
by gozaimaas
Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:01 pm
Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
Topic: Quality heat blankets found/cheap!!!!
Replies: 45
Views: 50274

www.yuhengheating.com was who i used but found them on alibaba. Dont be turned away by minimum buys often they will be more flexible than there adds say. Also most will do custom jobs just question the person you are dealing with. took 8 messages back and forth to get what I wanted then received th...
by gozaimaas
Thu Jul 02, 2015 11:22 pm
Forum: Materials and Supplies
Topic: Dealing with cdw
Replies: 14
Views: 14806

Yeah I emailed Mark who referred me to Austria. Should be smooth sailing from now I hope. Im going for the primed edge cause my house is buried in snow for 4 months and shit just rusts away, last thing I need is a roll of rusty edge lol. For future reference the emails are Austria sylvie.paillier@cd...
by gozaimaas
Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:29 pm
Forum: Materials and Supplies
Topic: Dealing with cdw
Replies: 14
Views: 14806

So after basically quoting part numbers from their catalogue I get this response. I give up with the chinese branch of cdw lol. I will email the US branch. We provide material, not products. What you mentioned is all about the products. We need the information for raw material which is before stampi...
by gozaimaas
Wed Jul 01, 2015 2:26 pm
Forum: Materials and Supplies
Topic: Dealing with cdw
Replies: 14
Views: 14806

They have atleast 2 instock profiles with the base offset. Just order one of those. They have coils sitting ready to ship. Yeah that's what I was expecting. Being that I am in Japan my email has gone to the Chinese branch and I'm dealing with them who seem to make it as hard as it could possibly be...
by gozaimaas
Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:16 am
Forum: Materials and Supplies
Topic: Dealing with cdw
Replies: 14
Views: 14806

Cheers Falls.
I've got no idea why they are trying to.make me reinvent the wheel. Looking at the brochure now.
by gozaimaas
Tue Jun 30, 2015 5:07 pm
Forum: Materials and Supplies
Topic: Dealing with cdw
Replies: 14
Views: 14806

Dealing with cdw

So I often read posts saying go to cdw for bulk edge material, I am trying to buy bulk edge atm from them but they are asking for info some of which I am not sure about. I thought they would have made so much ski edge they would just run some off for me but its not so easy. They are asking for the f...
by gozaimaas
Wed Jun 03, 2015 3:04 am
Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
Topic: Adustable Bottom mold again
Replies: 17
Views: 15201

rnordell wrote: when you are accustomed to designing and certifying modifications on multi million dollar airplanes you tend to take that mentality into everything you do :)
You didn't even need to say it.
by gozaimaas
Tue Jun 02, 2015 3:54 pm
Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
Topic: Adustable Bottom mold again
Replies: 17
Views: 15201

My crystal ball shows a big investment, bound to have lots of dramas, probably end up never being happy with it and scrapping it for a proven design.
by gozaimaas
Tue Jun 02, 2015 3:28 am
Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
Topic: Adustable Bottom mold again
Replies: 17
Views: 15201

in order to compute the thickness of the steelplate and the distance of the jacks in a langzauner type mold: what would you consider to be an acceptable amount of deflection in between the jacks? in other words what amount can be cleared up in the finishing process to get a dead flat base? cheers N...
by gozaimaas
Tue May 26, 2015 6:45 am
Forum: Journals: Log Your Ski Building Progress
Topic: Kampai Custom
Replies: 117
Views: 81172

sweet!