OAC 2011/2012
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OAC 2011/2012
Starting up...
New molds and "ski building beer"!!!
New molds and "ski building beer"!!!
that man looks very chilled out!
Hey dude, great pic, so your workshop has room for a fridge too? Does a fridge keep beer warm enough to drink in your country ie. above 0, or cool enough? I thought up your way it was pretty cold eh!?
Nice moulds, I am awaiting some profiles to be cut so I can build my first split boards, can;t wait everything takes too long!!!!! Maybe less beer for me.
Cheers
Rich
Nice moulds, I am awaiting some profiles to be cut so I can build my first split boards, can;t wait everything takes too long!!!!! Maybe less beer for me.
Cheers
Rich
MonkeyCAM and SnoCAD - https://github.com/mikemag
Ski binding mounting https://github.com/splitn2/DrillSki
Richard Harcourt | www.splitn2.com | Christchurch New Zealand
rich@splitn2.com | www.facebook.com/splitn2
Ski binding mounting https://github.com/splitn2/DrillSki
Richard Harcourt | www.splitn2.com | Christchurch New Zealand
rich@splitn2.com | www.facebook.com/splitn2
Re: that man looks very chilled out!
In the winter, yes. The summers are pretty fair. I live on the west coast, so I'm privilieged(don't say that to other swedes... )richie wrote:.. I thought up your way it was pretty cold eh!?
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So how about yours(winters)? Coming up soon?
Cheers
starting up.....
Weather here is pretty dry climate compared to other parts of NZ, still we get our dose of rain and cold temps, and on the coast we even get a bit of sleet / snow occasionally and a few good frosts, but overall its a great climate here summer and winter. Wish I could say the same for the earthquakes, getting sick of those! Our hills have a nice light dusting of snow now, fingers crossed more coming. My workshop is coming along well, I am in the middle of building my core profiling machine which is a router on rails basically with bearings etc, bit of a beefed up router bridge really. Just waiting on Jim at Crown to despatch my base to me, thats getting a bit urgent now! Hey OAC, what CAD are you using? I'm trying to learn to use Rhino eval kit at the moment but as usual with any CAD its not exactly easy for me to pick up, still I want to get my profiles cnc cut too and not hack them out.
Cheers
Rich
Cheers
Rich
MonkeyCAM and SnoCAD - https://github.com/mikemag
Ski binding mounting https://github.com/splitn2/DrillSki
Richard Harcourt | www.splitn2.com | Christchurch New Zealand
rich@splitn2.com | www.facebook.com/splitn2
Ski binding mounting https://github.com/splitn2/DrillSki
Richard Harcourt | www.splitn2.com | Christchurch New Zealand
rich@splitn2.com | www.facebook.com/splitn2
northern hemisphere trip
yeah agree , we get some good snow down here in NZ too but I never heard of the huge dumps like in north america or european areas, still we do get some good powder time to time, I guess that has a lot to do with how high up, how much moisture, and how cold eh! Still its looking good this year with south easterly flows over southern NZ which bring shitloads of snow to the Canterbury ski fields in my area. Hey Tim we should do a trip up to see OAC and drink some of his beer and ski some of his secret stashes sometime eh! cheers Rich
MonkeyCAM and SnoCAD - https://github.com/mikemag
Ski binding mounting https://github.com/splitn2/DrillSki
Richard Harcourt | www.splitn2.com | Christchurch New Zealand
rich@splitn2.com | www.facebook.com/splitn2
Ski binding mounting https://github.com/splitn2/DrillSki
Richard Harcourt | www.splitn2.com | Christchurch New Zealand
rich@splitn2.com | www.facebook.com/splitn2
Re: northern hemisphere trip
You're more than welcome! But hurry, the beer won't last long...richie wrote: Hey Tim we should do a trip up to see OAC and drink some of his beer and ski some of his secret stashes sometime eh! cheers Rich
I was in Oz and NZ in 1987, diving, sailing and watched rugby! No skiing.
And about CAD, I use Snocad-X for the most of my "creations", which aren't that complex. I export the files to "*.dxf", go to my CNC-partner and he uses AutoCad. And now we talk wizard! It takes him like 30sec. to get rid of all the gazillions of point that comes out of Snocad when exporting an arc. This goes for both the templates and mold.
Right now I'm learning DraftSight. But it goes slow.
Hmmm CAD driving me nuts
Yeah CAD, where do I start, for someone thats been working in IT for 25 years, CAD makes me feel like a complete beginner not the geek I thought I was! Snowcad although simple I think does some pretty nasty things where end of one curve hits another, the "blend" or transition between camber mid section and tip/tail is not really handled well with Snowcad unless I am missing something really simple? you end up with a bump kind of. My patience is being stretched and I'd much rather be building machines to build skis and boards rather than fiddling with computers, I do it 40hrs a week and that enough! I have a mate who is overseas curently testing his new ski binding system , known him 25 years and he has a good grip on CAD so he will do my profiles on his return, check out www.exobindings.com for his project its very cool. I've used it and it works. Thsi guy goes on some serious missions, a week or 2 by himself on very long traverses of our southern alps, great stuff. Keep an eye on his blog.
cheers
Rich
cheers
Rich
MonkeyCAM and SnoCAD - https://github.com/mikemag
Ski binding mounting https://github.com/splitn2/DrillSki
Richard Harcourt | www.splitn2.com | Christchurch New Zealand
rich@splitn2.com | www.facebook.com/splitn2
Ski binding mounting https://github.com/splitn2/DrillSki
Richard Harcourt | www.splitn2.com | Christchurch New Zealand
rich@splitn2.com | www.facebook.com/splitn2
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OAC do you have a beer-to-ski ratio when you build? I think I'll be looking for someone to do CNC for me too. I'd like to get my templates made out of some stock AL. I'm sure it won't be cheap.....
Richie - I agree about the CAD and IT. When you do IT all day you really don't feel working on the computer when you get home... spending an hour to make a curved line meet another curved line.
Your buddy has a pretty cool binding system. Love the simplicity of it.
Richie - I agree about the CAD and IT. When you do IT all day you really don't feel working on the computer when you get home... spending an hour to make a curved line meet another curved line.
Your buddy has a pretty cool binding system. Love the simplicity of it.
Then we are three, IT day time, skibuilders rest of the day. Just to "prove" that working with IT 40h/week is enough. I posted a reply on this yesterday...(were is it???)
And I will never be a CAD wiz (or even a normal user)(but I can interpret exceptions in Java...)(and reading logfiles in UNIX/Linux...)(and set up enterprise systems..)(but somwhere along the IT-path I lost it with graphics, multimedia and that stuff, trying real hard to keep up with the kids in social networking)
The BTSr (Beer-To-Ski-ratio) is high for the moment... 2:1
Need to lower it. I'm too heavy and I blame the beer for it!
And I will never be a CAD wiz (or even a normal user)(but I can interpret exceptions in Java...)(and reading logfiles in UNIX/Linux...)(and set up enterprise systems..)(but somwhere along the IT-path I lost it with graphics, multimedia and that stuff, trying real hard to keep up with the kids in social networking)
The BTSr (Beer-To-Ski-ratio) is high for the moment... 2:1
Need to lower it. I'm too heavy and I blame the beer for it!