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I need a diagnosis for my ON3Ps...

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PULSEofdaNATION
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Alright so I was up today at my home mountain and was hitting the terrain park most of the day. On one of the first hits in the park, I threw a 5 and got the rotation around, but got way to backseat and slammed the tip of my ski into the ground. These were my new ON3P Jernimos that I had only ridden once prior to today.

When I landed I slammed the tail of my ski into the ground and it ejected, but when I put the ski back on, the tail was wayyy more rockered then the other. After further investigation, I found that I cracked the top sheet right where the tail starts to rise up.

So I was able to ride on it the rest of the day and didn't really notice any significant problems, but I am not sure if it will just break more the next time I crash.

What should I do? I plan on talking to Scott tomorrow about it, but what is your diagnosis for my problem??

Ill add some pirctures soon.

Mar 14 2010 11:41PM
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J.D.
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"On3p: Even Broken, They're Better Than Your Skis!"

Haha... this is actually the first issue I've heard of.
Mar 16 2010 12:43AM
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PULSEofdaNATION
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I only weigh like 155-160, and I am 5'10" so I would say I am not hefty at all.
Mar 16 2010 2:26AM
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smuggs
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some of you idiots are, idiots. esp the kid who said hes seen this happen to alot of skis, and the kid that didnt read a single reply.

anyway. have fun!
Mar 16 2010 2:44AM
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smuggs
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^alot of on3p skis
Mar 16 2010 2:45AM
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iggyskier
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^this made made laugh =)
Mar 16 2010 2:47AM
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Dustin.
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me*

Get some sleep once a week ok?
Mar 16 2010 2:53AM
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iggyskier
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Rowen just put on a video of Bush stuttering during a speech.  I am going to blame that....
Mar 16 2010 2:58AM
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Commonwealth
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Clearly you didn't read my post completely. I said that these aren't UNEXPECTED, the company has to assume that out of all of the pairs they make, some skis will be warrantied. I understand that they are busting ass, and that every pair warrantied is a pair not sold. But what I'm saying, in the grand scheme of things, these costs were expected and anticipated.
Mar 16 2010 1:12PM
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JamanBird
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If a company replaces a customers broken ski they are more likely to get repeat business. So the loss sucks for the young company who has to eat a pair of skis, but they may have a lifetime customer.
Clearly ON3P has stated that they will help this guy out. Respect.
Mar 16 2010 9:57PM
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Squid.
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Wow, I'm definitely buying ON3Ps next time I need skis, that's sick customer service
Mar 16 2010 10:09PM
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arandomname
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Yeah, I'm definitely buying ON3P for next year.  Are next years skis going to go on a presale again?  If so, when?  I'm debating whether or not I should buy Jeronimos this year or wait until next year to see if I want one of the new pairs.
May 16 2010 2:00PM
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207
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jesus christ. You murdered those skis. ON3P is waay to legit tho. Props to them.
May 16 2010 5:42PM
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TWoods
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Soon.

HYPE!
May 16 2010 6:50PM
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dr.delicious
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I'm definatly thinking about it now!

Bet iggiskier is glad about this thread going up.
May 16 2010 7:31PM
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STEEZZZZ
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^ this
May 17 2010 12:31AM
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B-runge
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k2 has china
on3p has scott and rowen

its quite the more hassle for them to make a brand new pair of skis that will cost a few hundred bucks and ship them off to some kid who broke his cuz he cant do a 5

but its legit as fuck that they will do that and i want some on3p's
May 17 2010 12:45AM
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Soul.Powah
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could this have happened because onep planes their cores? 
seems like it to me.  could have easily been just a weak spot in the core, which is bound to be present in a few of your skis.
May 17 2010 3:57PM
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N.Skinner
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I may have misunderstood your point but...the core was not broken
May 17 2010 4:05PM
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Aaaron.
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oh i understood that the core snapped.  but whatever.  using a cnc router seems better in everyway. 
i would reccomend on3p look into that.
May 17 2010 4:24PM
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iggyskier
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The core is 100% intact.

The break was entirely in the composite layer and topsheet.

Click for larger image

As for the CNC router vs planer/sander for profiling, tons of companies use planers or sanders vs cnc routers because profiling on most cnc routers is incredibly slow. Unless you have a huge cnc router that can do 3-4 different cores at a time, meaning multiple heads and costing $100,000+, the planer or wide belt sanding method is way more efficient. We can plane 4 pairs of cores in the time it would take a CNC router to do 1 pair.

Works great for prototyping, but terrible for production.
May 17 2010 5:07PM
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Slinger1x1
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works 60% of the time, every time....
May 17 2010 5:51PM
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B-runge
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scott you should send me those broken j mos ;D
May 17 2010 6:01PM
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