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New Shop
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 6:26 am
by jeff@shaggys
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:19 am
by Richuk
Inspirational, looking forward to more photos!
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:35 am
by skidesmond
Nice shop! Must have been really frustrating dealing w/ the electric co. More pics when it's up and running. Good Luck!
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 7:18 am
by jeff@shaggys
@skidesmond yeah, it was extremely frustrating dealing with the electric company, but fortunately for us that blog post found it's way to Consumers Energy customer service and we had electricity the following Tuesday (post went up on a Friday). It's pretty amazing how it circled and we even had their regional manager call a apologize a ton.
Anyways, we can now see the light at the end of the tunnel! The shop is back up and ready to start working. We've been working on the finishing touches for the past few days and it finally is just about done.
Laying carpet in the showroom
The shop dog testing out the new carpet
Prep room for base, edges, topsheet, etc
Storage area
Tool storage/packaging area
Grinding room, now we just need to find space for our robot (Microjet) in this shop.
Always have to have some decent music while working.
Sorting a few cores
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 7:50 am
by skidesmond
Wow really coming together. I noticed the small orange press w/ the hydraulic jack. What's that used for?
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:05 am
by jeff@shaggys
We used to use it for die cuts but we really need a clicker or roll press for that. It's always good to have a shop press around though, you never know when you're going to need it...
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:58 am
by jeff@shaggys
Quick video tour:
We're getting ready for our grand opening party/ribbon cutting this Saturday (9-10-11), so we've been pretty busy lately. More to come soon.
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:11 pm
by skidesmond
Looks like you've been there for a year already working hard. Good luck with the open house!
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 8:33 am
by artski
Hey Jeff, I enjoyed visiting your shop for the open house yesterday, looks like you and your dad have been working your asses off. So many great tools, looks like you guys are really getting your processes down.
Your product looks great. Looking forward to skiing with you guys this year!
Best of luck with your new venture.
see you soon, art
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:28 pm
by jeff@shaggys
We're really bad about updating this stuff...
But here's what we've been doing. Today we shaped 50 pair of cores (finally made a dent in our seemingly never ending pile).
Over the past week we also made about 12 new cassettes.
We need more storage for cores!
50 Pair that we shaped today
Getting sidewalls ready
New cassettes
Moved around the office. Sorry for the horrible panorama
And finally after moving around too many shops with us in Denver and lower Michigan then finally to Boyne City, our Wintersteiger Microjet Pro will be doing our grinding. Just hit the bases on a manual belt grinder (we now have 2 Monty's, 1 Fontaine, and 1 Wintersteiger) and send it to the robot. We can program the grinding pressure and number of passes with the belt and stone, it's amazing what the thing can do! Video of it grinding skis coming soon.
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:08 pm
by MontuckyMadman
wow you guys are crazy.
How many pairs will you get out of each cassette after epoxy gets all in there?
Are those all pop riveted?
I assume you guys have uses that cassette technique before?
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:55 am
by jeff@shaggys
We easily get 25-30 pair before they need to a good cleaning, we just make sure to blow everything out of them after each pressing and spray release religiously.
We've used this method for around 4 years and it works really well for keeping everything lined up.
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:43 am
by knightsofnii
what do you use for spray release? You're saying you dont even need to clean them after each use?
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:08 am
by jeff@shaggys
We do clean them after every use, we use a putty knife and air. The release is a silicone based mold release from General Chemical.