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FreeSkier23
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What do they use for the top of funboxes and stuff at parks?? If you have some rail for backyard jibbing post a pic... i need some ideas



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Oct 31 2003 2:46PM
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SkiRoundtopRules
Posts: 158 - Karma: 10
This winter since I have an awsome yard for a mini park I was gonna buy an x factor rail and put it on top of a tabletop.
Oct 31 2003 2:53PM
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FreeSkier23
Posts: 86 - Karma: 9
sounds like a pretty good idea...


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Oct 31 2003 2:54PM
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noj1080
Posts: 355 - Karma: 69
you can build a box out of plywood and you wont have a problem some angle iron on the corners will make it slide a little better too but its not necessary
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Oct 31 2003 2:54PM
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FreeSkier23
Posts: 86 - Karma: 9
what im trying to do is build a down kink... but on the top im just gonna have 2 by 4's and then im gonna put like some sheet metal on the top or somethin but im just tryin to get some ideas about what to use.


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Oct 31 2003 2:57PM
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SkiRoundtopRules
Posts: 158 - Karma: 10
Today I just made a rail. I turned an old 8 foot bench upside down. Then I nailed two small boards across the legs and nailed a big board from end to end on the two smaller ones. After that I cut two pieces of ??1 1/2 or 2 inch pvc and bolted them side by side on top of the large board. I ended up with a sturdy, nice looking, 8 foot long rail.
Nov 1 2003 9:16PM
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jibberkid69
Posts: 1539 - Karma: 90
lexan, sheet metal, or plastic, they all work well



does that mean you don't want a fish sandwich
Nov 1 2003 10:21PM
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creighton
Posts: 3837 - Karma: 3,400
we just finished welding a 30 ft handrail, its pretty good, its our 2nd rail we made so far
aint easy bein shleezy
Nov 1 2003 11:05PM
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creighton
Posts: 3837 - Karma: 3,400
we just finished welding a 30 ft handrail, its pretty good, its our 2nd rail we made so far
aint easy bein shleezy
Nov 1 2003 11:22PM
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winterkid33
Posts: 2267 - Karma: 52
dont use sheet metal it fucks your edges so bad and doesnt slide as nice. Use lexan, puckboard pvc sheet, p-tex, nylon there are soo many dif. things U can use that are better the sheet metal. PVC sheete it so cheap too.
Dec 9 2004 6:33PM
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bigbromskier
Posts: 1175 - Karma: 330
sheet metal works only if its thick like 1/16' any kind of pvc works real well too
Dec 9 2004 6:36PM
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SkiRoundtopRules
Posts: 158 - Karma: 10
I just built a 12 foot box, its all wood then i used 3/32 inch plexiglass for the top. I cut the plexiglass back on the sides to put angle iron made of sheet metal on as coping. The plexiglass slides great but was getting chipped up a lot on the sides without coping. To use real angle iron it would have costed $50 the sheet metal stuff was $4. The plexiglas was $32.
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Dec 9 2004 6:45PM
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plorr
Posts: 3131 - Karma: 528
ya dont use sheet metal unless u wax ur skis like every 25 minutes
-sticks and snow will break my bones and i will bleed profusely-
Dec 9 2004 6:50PM
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winterkid33
Posts: 2267 - Karma: 52
^^ that sounds exactly lie the box I biult today but I used Lexan and instead of coping I have a 1 inch pvc rail on each side. twelve feet long two feet tall. sittin in my living room
Dec 12 2004 10:13PM
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SgtSnow
Posts: 143 - Karma: 10
a bunch of my friends made a park in his backyard

3 rails...2 boxes...and a couple of jumps...all with the help of his snow machine
Dec 12 2004 10:17PM
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teamdummy
Posts: 1188 - Karma: 2,605
www.heinetools.com
Dec 12 2004 10:18PM
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T.L.
Posts: 4729 - Karma: 3,008
those are prpbably the most reasonably priced rails i've seen. still expensive as hell, yes, but reasonable for what you get
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Dec 12 2004 10:46PM
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darrel
Posts: 1145 - Karma: 18
pvc piping for cooping work pretty good?
and plexi glass is a good for the top?
or does it not slide very well, planning on building a box wednesday, yea yea
Jan 31 2005 10:35PM
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freeskier0808
Posts: 1748 - Karma: 16
pvc works pretty good but it slides super fast
Jan 31 2005 10:38PM
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darrel
Posts: 1145 - Karma: 18
yeah we got a pvc rail and its not even fun to ride, seems like you get on and your off so fast, cant have any steeze on it

Jan 31 2005 10:45PM
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