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Making twin tips

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freeskinow
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anybody have any tips for bending regular skis into twins
Nov 21 2005 11:00PM
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DuncanK
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I remember in a really old freeze Brad Holmes just took like a blowtorch and slowly bent them...i dont know if it will work because Brad is a Crzy Fuck, but worth trying
Nov 21 2005 11:02PM
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FUUUCK
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boiling water and a cinder block
Nov 21 2005 11:03PM
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timofysmif
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use a torch, if its wood core if probally wont work
Nov 21 2005 11:07PM
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Taydawg197
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Just buy em, dont waste your time. You can get some trashed twins for really cheap im sure
Nov 21 2005 11:08PM
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nickmcnutt
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back in the day i calmped mine to a table and used a heat gun (like an industrial hair dryer) and a big pair of vice grips and heated them for like 10 mins and bent em
Nov 21 2005 11:10PM
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TimmyP
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^ THATS WHAT I DID , YOU COULD PROBABLY BUY CHEAP ONES NOW
Nov 21 2005 11:23PM
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Torbord
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You could easily buy cheap ones... but thats not as pimp as making your own.
Nov 21 2005 11:32PM
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JoakimHayland
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I have bend a pair of really old skis and made a tail on then, we used a blowtorch and bent them, worked pretty nice exept that there became a lot of bubbles on the top sheet.. So now me and some friends are going to make a pair of homemade twintips
Nov 22 2005 6:08AM
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markhr
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www.skibuilders.com

www.grafsnowboards.com
Nov 22 2005 7:30AM
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o5eli
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me and my buddies all made our own twin tips. when ended up getting 5 pairs of rentals from our ski hill, all we did was call my sister over and told her to sit on the ends for two days. then we put rivits in the tips, it worked out
Nov 22 2005 10:50AM
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ihatemyscratches
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dude you must have one fat ass sister
Nov 22 2005 12:46PM
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MarkieR
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why wouldn't you just go buy a pair? you are going wayyy out of your way to make something thats probably gonna end up not working anyways.
Nov 22 2005 12:48PM
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RastaSkier9
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Yeah unless your doing it for some reason, just go buy a pair
Nov 22 2005 1:49PM
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spyder1
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i know i have thought about it, but that is just for fucking around with, like on bad rails, and backyard shit. they probably want them for something like that, urban, and backyard stuff where you wont wreck your skis whihc are worth a couple of hundred
Nov 22 2005 2:41PM
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highSPEEDchase
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im thinking about doing this too, just for a fun little project, besides may as well try to make the old ones useful somehow.
Nov 22 2005 3:00PM
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o2bjedi
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http://perso.wanadoo.fr/thermik/bricolage%20ski.htm

this is how i made twins
Nov 22 2005 4:09PM
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japanada
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its in some crazy language.
Nov 22 2005 5:35PM
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spyder1
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in English?
Nov 22 2005 5:36PM
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Lineskiah11
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thats pretty sick^... how do they hold up tho... and is that just fiberglass?
Nov 22 2005 5:38PM
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lyndon
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french u idiot! crazy too
Nov 22 2005 5:38PM
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spyder1
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i was asking if its available in english
Nov 22 2005 5:39PM
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Lineskiah11
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go to altavista dn then click babel fish translation and put it from french to english
Nov 22 2005 5:42PM
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*DrewT*
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he doesnt wanna make skis from scratch he just wants to bend them
Nov 22 2005 5:49PM
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spyder1
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Veiled which occurs when I am bored firmly. I transformed my pair of ski stones (of the Gangster 2 X) into double spatulas. In fact I hesitated to do them in tail coat... It is not very complicated to make, here the photographs with explanations.

1 Cutting of slits separated by 1 cm Ca will use to give the flex to the spatula.

2 times the slits cut with a hacksaw (P....... it is hard Gangsters!!! ) one puts the back end of the ski in vices, and one types on the cross-sections and the sole to format.

3 For my part, working the epoxy resin, I put fibres transversely in the grooves (wire of glass soaked with epoxy)

4 carbon and glass fibre Installation: 1 layer of Carbon in 200 gr., 2 layers of Glass in 200 gr., 1 layer of glass in 79 gr. for completion

5 Poses transparent Film for returned the

6 Drying 24 H minimum. For making well it would be necessary to cook all that during 7 H with 70° to cook the resin and fibres.

7 Photographs of the finished skis, it remains more than has to test all that!!!

THats what it was translated to using alta vista
Nov 22 2005 5:55PM
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markhr
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you may want to check o2bjedi's original post on skibuilders.com?
Nov 22 2005 7:26PM
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zepscratch
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if you heat it it will bend
Nov 22 2005 7:28PM
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justanotherskier
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hahaha shit that's a brutal translation
Nov 22 2005 7:35PM
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o2bjedi
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they hold up pretty good. i primarily use them for rails. i didn't use carbon fiber like they did, just fiberglass.

someone said something about wanting it in english, well its pretty self-explanatory.
Nov 22 2005 9:22PM
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