Pre bending tips and tail before lay up

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Noza
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Pre bending tips and tail before lay up

Post by Noza »

If you are prebending the tips and tails, What is the best way of achieving this, and if using heat do you use moisture to assist with the bending process, as I find my tips and tails at 2mm thickness appear to be not flexiable enough to curve in the mould.
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Post by hugocacola »

no problem with that, just bond in three diferent spots with superglue and its ok i had the same problem, and no problem
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Post by RoboGeek »

Steam works, but its harder to do than just plain water. And an old hockey stick trick works too - use a heat gun or a torch with a spreader tip
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thats beter :D lol thks
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Post by davide »

Boiling water is fine. Cook tips for few minutes, than bend them.
http://aeg.isuisse.com/LabDavos06/Davos06.html

Hot tap water is not really enough: wood loose some bending afterwards.
http://forum.powdermag.com/photopost/da ... rebend.jpg
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Post by Jclaude »

Just my 2cents,
I used to build guitars and bent my guitar sides using cold water and rolling them on a heated aluminium cylinder, and they never release their set.
As I am in process on building my first pair of skis, I plan to put the tip in water (hot at the beginning) half an hour , put in it on the mold to get the set, and dry it with an air gun.

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Noza
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Thanks

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Thanks for all the help guys. I am about to lay up my first set of skis this weekend. very excited
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