Replying to Jesus Christ the current state of knowledge about polyethylene ski bases is such a fucking shitshow

Ive been digging through literature and online textbooks and scientific journal papers for days and ive seen claims varying from “bases have pores” to “bases dont have pores” to “sintered bases have nooks and crannies where wax can hide” to “neither extruded nor sintered bases hold wax” to “wax dissolves into amorphous regions of ski bases” to “sintered bases are more dense than extruded bases” to “extruded bases are more dense than sintered” to “98% of ski bases are sintered” to “50% of ski bases are sintered” to “bases are extruded when they can be but the largest chain polyethylenes must be sintered because molten uhmwpe is too high viscosity to extrude and uhmwpe burns before it melts”

jesus fucking christ. Can somebody please rescue me from this contrarian fuck festival?
if there truly is a right answer to this debate, then i have just read info from about 50 so called experts that are more full of shit than a cocksucking shithouse.

pls halp

**This thread was edited on May 3rd 2020 at 5:39:39pm