Hi all! With lots of thanks to this terrific website this will be my story of building my own ride! Finally after recovering from some shoulder churgery the big day has come! I started building my pneumatic press last weekend :D During my ski building adventure I will try to keep you all up-to-date ...

According to what I read on the forum is that if you use a pneumatic press (not heated) you should appy twice the camber of the ski to the mold. So if you want 8 mm camber your mold should have 16 mm.

Hi Parlor, Great that you're also going to build your own ride! I live in Delft, the Netherlands, so we are neighbours :) I just bought the materials for my press today, so hopefully this summer I will build my first pair of skis as well :) About the materials: We (me and a friend who builds snowboa...

Wood press may be out, but it's a lot cheaper than steel. I can buy most materials at university, but steel is still quite expensive. And since the wood replaces a lot of steel the entire press will be a lot cheaper. And because I'm just a student I can't affort an expensive press... I'm soon going ...

Check the links below for very detailed info about UHMWPE and HDPE

Detailed info about UHMWPE

Detailed info about HDPE

Hi, I can order edges with a standard profile and with the dimensions as in the drawing below http://www.groene-engel.com/Buuk/P1291.jpg Are this standard dimensions? The come in grey blue (the natural oxydization of the steel) The common hardness of the steel is 48 ±2 HRC They are NOT Sandblasted (...

Hi, I made a small mistake in an earlier post. I can buy HMW-PE instead of UHMW-PE. ( PE 1000 = UHMW-PE and PE 500 = HMW-PE) And my question was if one on you did use HMW-PE?? Because this has a lower impact resistance, but also a lower friction coefficient. @ Mutombo: I'm busy contacting some edge ...

I can buy a big sheet (2 metres x 1 metre x 15 mm) of UHMWPE (Werkstoff 'S' 500)
Did anyone ever used this material for sidewalls? Did it bond well after flame treating and sanding?? Did you like to work with it?
Thanks

Thanks! Sounds great, you've got a name of someone at one of both companies? So I can contact that person?

Thanks Endre.
By the way, do you know where I can by steel edges without having to buy an entire coil? I only want about 50 edges of 2 metres...

Maybe it's because of my English, but everywhere I look on the internet there is written that UHMW(PE) is non-adherent. Does this mean it does not bond good while using epoxie? Because when I informed at a local shop they told me it's very hard to bond because of its large coefficient of expansion a...

To be more exact, the method of calculating the radius of an arc defined by three points is given by:
r = (4·length^2 + (tip + tail - 2·waist)^2)/(8·(tip + tail - 2·waist)) ...
according to Pythagoras r^2=x^2+y^2

Hi there, I'm a newby overhere, but have big plans building my own skis. I already designed and analysed a new press, which is cheaper and is able to withstand 8 bar (116 psi). I also designed a parametric ski design in 3D CAD program SolidWorks, which gives the ability to design a ski by just editi...