aluminum cassette thickness

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aluminum cassette thickness

Post by goneskiing »

hey guys i'm gonna buy my first aluminum cassette in the next couple weeks here. I was just curious what thicknesses you guys are using? its finally time to ditch the Masonite!
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Post by MontuckyMadman »

Yeah great thread. There arnt like 20 of these already.
It really depends on allot of factors.
16-18 gauge is standard.
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sammer wrote: I'm still a tang on top guy.
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Post by gozaimaas »

No need to be a dick montucky. The thread you link to was last posted in 3 years ago.

FWIW I use 3.0mm aluminium so the base stays nice and flat
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Doesn't mean you can't find it in the search.
Duh?
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Still no need to flame people mate.
I was just reading some old threads and you were really friendly back then, now I just see you barking at people.
What happened?
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Post by Head Monkey »

First, a useful answer: I use 0.032" 5052-H32 aluminum sheets: http://www.happymonkeysnowboards.com/Mo ... ion#Layers

Next, a fun rant!

I love it when someone gets their panties in a twist about someone not appearing to have searched. "Here's a leaky warehouse scattered with thousands of papers, surely you should have already read it all and found what you needed." Searching this site puts the following images in my head, in no particular order:
  • Morgan Freeman reading a tiny portion of John Doe's diary, and lamenting the effort it would take to even begin to digest it all:
    Edward Norton reading from Jack's diaries in the house on Paper Street, surrounded by disorganized stacks of papers:
    The warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark (okay, that one was a gimme):
I'm impressed you found that old topic. I gave search on this a shot: 'Aluminum cassette thickness', 660 matches, nothing useful in the first many pages of results then I gave up. 'Aluminum thickness', 876 matches, same answer. Google 'aluminum thickness site:skibuilders.com', 58 matches with no good answer.

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I guess it helps I have read it all and have it organized in my head.
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2mm, whatever that is in Ga ;)
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Post by falls »

1.6mm bottom. 1mm top.
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Post by gozaimaas »

it probably should be noted that my molds are staggered mdf, so one on, one off etc.
If your molds are solid then you can get away with a thin sheet, if they are staggered then you should go thicker
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Post by chrismp »

Mine are staggered too. I place a sheet of 5mm hardboard on top of my molds, then the heat blanket and then the aluminum sheet.
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Post by falls »

How go you get the hardboard to conform to the mold chrismp? Glue? Screws? Or just press with heat and it takes on the shape?
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Post by chrismp »

No need to fix it to the mold, I just shove it into the press like I do with the cassette. It gets pressed into the mold by the firehose anyway. I have the same layers on top as well.

All layers in my press top to bottom are:

top mold
cat track
5mm hardboard
heat blanket
2mm aluminum sheet
board/ski layup
2mm aluminum sheet
heat blanket
5mm hardboard
bottom mold
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Post by PTTR »

I use more or less the same setup as you chrismp

Topmold
firehose
cattrack
4mm rubbersheet (no more cattrackmarks in the tip and tail area)
2 layers of 3 mm hdf
2mm alu
ski/board
2mm alu
heatblanket
2layers of 3mm hdf
bottom mold

my alu sheets get bent during the first pressing and I would like to find something that returned to flat. maybe stainless steel or something?
we only make oneoffs and as long as the next one is the same lenght or shorter there is no problem but the other way around can be sometimes. Usually I can bend it back and reuse it but I don't like it.
Any suggestions?
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