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Colt45er
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alright me and my bro have been planning to make a park in our backyard last year we made this box out of wood which is solid..... we have one problem, we need to find a material to make it slide but not expensive. Do you think sheet metal would work? And if anyone has n e other ideas that would be sweet.
Oct 24 2005 8:04PM
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Snowcase
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sheet metal=no
tried it last year caught an edge fell on pavement
Oct 24 2005 8:06PM
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Skillz
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How much is PVC?
Oct 24 2005 8:08PM
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Colt45er
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i dont think its cheap man i think that shit is expensive!
Oct 24 2005 8:10PM
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C.J.
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Oct 24 2005 8:10PM
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Skillz
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Could you lay PVC over the wood somehow?
Oct 24 2005 8:11PM
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monkeysteez
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pure lexan would KILL! that is material has the least friction known to man. If you put a piece of pure lexan on a table, it will slowly start to slide off, unless the table is EXACTLY DEAD FUCKEN centered or really rough like a 2 x 4. crazy shit eh.
Oct 24 2005 8:11PM
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Snowcase
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pvc is cheap lexan is expensive
Oct 24 2005 8:12PM
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skiierman
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Just spend a lot of time... For the box we used just wood with metal copings and then used a farm fence as a rail. Here's a shot of his backyard from the 15ft. dropin...

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Oct 24 2005 8:13PM
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Colt45er
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wow dood thats sick! did u get a plow?
Oct 24 2005 8:16PM
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skiierman
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It's my friend's. He spent hours working on it with a shovle and of course a tractor.
Oct 24 2005 8:19PM
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Snowcase
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i make all my stuff with a shovel
Oct 24 2005 8:21PM
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Colt45er
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ugh i need a rail too
Oct 24 2005 8:24PM
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chapz
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fuck no, pvc is really expensive, i think its 400$ a sheet.. 4 by 8 feet is a sheet i think. im using plexi glass, thick though, it owrked really well lest yeaar, especially cause i waxed it a bit and it slid for the whole day well.
Oct 24 2005 8:32PM
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ThePoopSock
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that one guys backyard looks better then the park at my mountain does for most of the ski season, props man
Oct 24 2005 8:34PM
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switch-it-up
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i was in french class today, and i was looking at the whiteboard, and i thought to myself, wow that would be a dope ass box. so whateveer material a whiteboard is, it would be good to make a fatty box
Oct 24 2005 8:39PM
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Snowcase
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yea the tables in our school work really well
Oct 24 2005 8:39PM
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Lax_Bro40
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my mountains boxes are made of sheet metal... they suck.. thee whole thing is sheet metal every box
Oct 24 2005 8:41PM
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Colt45er
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ya we might use like a picnic table
Oct 24 2005 8:41PM
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Future_MSPer
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how much does plexi glass cost and where can u get it?
Oct 24 2005 9:06PM
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freestyleskiin
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thats killer...50 time sweetr than the park on my mountian
Oct 24 2005 9:09PM
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powpow1080
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^jesus tity fucking christ...sick
Oct 24 2005 9:18PM
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Skillz
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http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=usplastic&category%5Fname=115&product%5Fid=10064

Shit...PVC is expensive
Oct 24 2005 9:48PM
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Snowcase
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there a link for that?
Oct 25 2005 9:20AM
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TonyTheTiger
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Put a couple of pvc pipes next to eachother. Thats what I will do, I think it is going to work well. Use smaller pipes but more of them so you have better contact with the rail.
Oct 25 2005 9:40AM
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wskibum176
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USE THE SEARCH BAR, THERE ARE TOOOOO MANY THREADS ABOUT THIS
Oct 25 2005 9:42AM
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stuart
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how much is PCP
Oct 25 2005 10:02AM
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cork5_thovex
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for the wide rail me and my buddy built we just took to pieces of round pvc piping and screwed them into the wood about a inch from each other. you could do something like that or do what someone said above and just place a bunch next to each other, that would probably be the cheapest.
Oct 25 2005 10:13AM
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mski
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i like how he lines the jumps...killer!
Oct 25 2005 12:01PM
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zepscratch
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same here
Oct 25 2005 12:22PM
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ski_and_distroy
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thats why you steel it from random out door hockey rinks haha
Oct 25 2005 12:31PM
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Colt45er
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what about angle metal on the corners?
Oct 25 2005 6:30PM
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djikstra
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if you use edgeless skis you can slide on whatever the hell you want to. OR HERES AN IDEA, MY SNOWBOARDER FRIEND USED AJAX WAX AND LOADED THE SHIT ONTO HIS BOX AND THE WOOD SLIDES CRAZY GOOD!! ITS AMAZING. AND AFTER 2 SEASONS IT STILL WORKS FINE
Oct 25 2005 6:36PM
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Colt45er
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ya but ur probally gana catch an edge like nuts
Oct 25 2005 6:38PM
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4frntSkier
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lexan is uber exspensive
Oct 25 2005 6:38PM
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Colt45er
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ya, my friend has a hocker rink in his basement and he has that shit and i might buy it off him. or get it for free that would be nuts
Oct 25 2005 6:39PM
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Subjekt
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The working temp is 33°F to 160°F. and the forming temperatures of 245° F

does that mean pvc is bad in the cold?
Oct 25 2005 7:15PM
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Skillz
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Yah not sure, I doubt the cold would break the PVC or anything.
Oct 25 2005 7:19PM
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Snowcase
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might break it but the set up probly wood before it
Oct 25 2005 7:22PM
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Thomson.
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Im thinking that if I make a really sturdy wood base, I can lay, 3-4 PCV pipes down, and have a pretty decent "double shotgun" :-P think it wuold work?
Oct 25 2005 7:42PM
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switch-it-up
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yeah it does work. ive seen it before. it would be a really easy rail thbough
Oct 25 2005 7:59PM
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Redline_21
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how hard is it to use the search bar?!?!!?
Oct 25 2005 8:13PM
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r5tommy
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instead of building a rail, find stuff to bonk, backyard bonking is where its at
Oct 25 2005 8:14PM
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awsomecoolguy
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yeah lexon works the best but it's way exspensive
Oct 25 2005 8:35PM
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*DrewT*
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wow that's pretty good for a backyard. Mine's better though
Oct 25 2005 8:37PM
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yellav
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were gonna have 2 snowmobile jumps 2 metal rails hopefully a rollercaoster box and a tree jib its gonna be nasty
Oct 25 2005 8:38PM
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skiierman
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Haha, I wanna see!
Oct 25 2005 8:57PM
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k.strobel
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just use wood and pour water on it it will slide fine
Oct 25 2005 9:03PM
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lineskier129
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lexan works good n thats a nice backyard park
Oct 25 2005 9:09PM
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timmi
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just use a normal rail, that would be cheep enough.
Oct 25 2005 9:10PM
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switch-it-up
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u are stupid, pvc is a pipe not a sheet
Oct 30 2005 11:48AM
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