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Pre bending tips and tail before lay up
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:53 pm
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.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:49 pm
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
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:10 am
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
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:11 pm
by hugocacola
thats beter
lol thks
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:32 pm
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
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:20 pm
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.
Jean Claude
Thanks
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:14 am
by Noza
Thanks for all the help guys. I am about to lay up my first set of skis this weekend. very excited
