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freeski1620
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2 questions for you shop techs out there.

Im working on putting together the shop right now and I cant find the bench vise I want for our mounting bench. I'm looking for one that will hold 2 skis side by side and opens up to about 120 or so at the waist. my old shop had one of these. Can anyone point me where I could find one? SVST does not seem to have anything comparable in their catalogue. the widest vise I can find only goes out to 70mm. Like thats gonna help me!

Also for you shop techs out there, what's your preference for base repairs? A base repair gun that uses 11mm sticks or a hot air welder that uses 3-5mm wire? I'm torn what to get right now. I know the hot air welder works magic, but some of these base repair guns seem like they could do just as good of a job and not cost nearly as much.

Thanks for your input NS!

-CK
Aug 15 2011 5:11PM
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tomPietrowski
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The vices you are looking for are made by wintersteiger. You can also get the binding plates for use in the wintersteiger base grinder, but even if you dont have a grinder( which I presume you do if you have a tech shop) there usefull for holding the skis still when doing repairs to the base.

My fav type of ptex gun, are the ones where you poor the granuels in the top of the cyclider and they are heated up in here. Once melted the ptex is applied flat to the ski via the head of the gun. Work very well, but you do need two, one for black one for clear.

Hope this helps

Aug 15 2011 5:15PM
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SFBv420.0
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 I scored a sweet 130 mm toyko vice from the on3p crew a while back. The big center vice w/ two smaller support but side edge locks I think toyko still makes it. Rei used to sell a similiar red swix cheaper model that would do ~ 115mm.

Base repair guns like steigers polyman are the shits but $$$ or the other units they sell. Ive heard you can pick up a small compessor fed tip fed unit from online bulk tool outlets like harbor freight much cheaper and then use the poliwire.from stieger. I use the poliwire that adheres to metal for edge coreshots or if I really want the repair to last. I use a Hot air liester gun primarily used to weld pvc and tpo roofing materials to heat it and its pretty much a two man pain in the ass operation and pretty easy to burn the base if not attentive

I have a couple 11mm stick heat guns that I use mostly as I can ussually get a pretty good base repair the stick repair tends to crack and dry out over time so a good backcut around the coreshot and a warm clean surface are more important also they sell a metal  rockered  scraper thing that really helps compact that hot stick ptex so to speak.

Aug 15 2011 8:13PM
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kthnxbai.
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personally i would go with the 3mm polyman out of the steiger handheld extruder.  It definitely costs more but i think its worth it in the end.  It has done the best/ longest lasting repairs out of everything ive used except for our big Montana extruder that uses 5mm wire, but sounds like is out of the question for you.
Aug 24 2011 2:06PM
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freeski1620
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Bump. Anyone know a good winterstieger rep that can set me up. Mine's not returning phone calls.
Sep 16 2011 10:08PM
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