Your blankets have how many watts?

If you own a big shop air system you can use the venturi systems as well. Have one and im very pleased. But, depends on your air source. If its too small i would go for a electric vaccuum pump too

Cool, thanks. Duty cycle with this setup is 100%? Something like this i assume: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Staubsaugermotor-fuer-Wap-SQ-850-1400-Watt-Original-Domel-mit-Thermosicherung-/301439189011 or this one, easy mounting with the flange: http://www.hevo-shop.com/Staubsaugermotoren/230-V-Nass--Trock...

btw. chrismp, what shop vaacs did u use? Need to upgrade to a dual setup as well, my little kärcher is not strong enough for thick raw core

And use the correct routing bit. There are some which like to pull up the material, these make it worse

Use thicker L-profile (see below), grade 8 bolts and maybe silicone between L-profile and hose. I assume the nylon is quite slippery so the silicone or something similar will help against pullout. Nothing will move anymore (hopefully). And btw. use washers ;) Check if the L-profile warps when you sc...

Looks like not enough clamping force. Hose got pulled out and i assume ripped at the screw hole.

The dowel pin method works quite well with good accuracy if the hole and pin are a tight fit. But even with schablone every time i have to fiddle with the glueing of the pins (except the first time, then it was working perfectly and smooth). One time i tried to make life more easy and drilled the ho...

Try some sidewall abs and route it out as you need.

For Alu ... depends on the alu u use (weight) .. i know a lot of skis with it and no bonding problems. But it may be more heavy, did never compare it

you bend the thight radi hot or cold?

I think its ok, you protect the laminat against hits.

I dont use any on my skis right now. But if i would id like to use aluminium ones. But no idea where and how to get (except get it cncd)

What i do:

grind with 80 grit
clean with ethanol
flame

in some doc posted here this was descibed as the best method (was a scientific? test)

so the base is 0.6mm thicker ... i checked right now both skis .. i think the influence is quite small.

Just was wondering because somebody here mentioned the influence of the abs sidewall width on the flex

1.8mm edges and now 2.4mm edges

Yep, thats it. In the sizes we need not so cheap, for sure :) I think we work with pretty flat materials (base / topsheet) so it should work when pressed between two plates. And you shouldnt get so much problems with the upper alu. Imho you need to heat just the transfer paper and a little bit of th...