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Been doing a lot of repairing gear recently. Im intrested in seeing anything you repaired yourself. Whether its a sock you darned, a core shot you filled, or a crankshaft you annealed I wanna see it.
Ill start with this cap I made for a ski out of West Systems G/Flex 650 (a toughened, versatile, liquid epoxy for permanent waterproof bonding of fiberglass, ceramics, metals, plastics, and damp or difficult-to-bond woods.) Its held really well too!
Blew an edge on my Faction Prodigy 3.0's on ~85th day skiing park. Removed the edge and did an epoxy fill. The last pic was taken after 12 more days. It's held up amazingly well, just like the skis. They're in better condition after a 100 days than any other ski (2 pairs of Edollos, arv96, wReckoner102, Revolt95) I've had on their 30th day. A fresh pair is waiting for their turn, eager to see if they hold up this well too.
The back of one of my edges is protruding slightly and I’m not sure whether to grind it down flat and fill the hole or just cut it out completely and fill in more, will fix later today
**This post was edited on Dec 19th 2022 at 1:14:13pm
I have an ancient coat that is falling apart. I just keep putting gorilla tape over the ripped parts, I'm starting to look quite homeless when I wear it
sorry this is a terribke picture but
If anybody has advice on how to fix this that'd be nice
Im thinking about cutting the bump out and maybe putting ptex over it or taking a grinder to it. I dont care about the edge as much just need them to slide decent
OFF3Psorry this is a terribke picture but
If anybody has advice on how to fix this that'd be nice
Im thinking about cutting the bump out and maybe putting ptex over it or taking a grinder to it. I dont care about the edge as much just need them to slide decent
I would remove that piece of edge if its bent in then cut out any extra material and chisel it flat then epoxy.
Not as exciting as the other repairs but I blew my heel of my skis and no shop would sell me a new heel to I rummaged through some of my friends garages until I found this old marker heel that seems to work fine so far.
Not perfect but pretty good and holding up well for my roommate thus far.
I used:
- A few very sharp razor blades
- A wire brush on the dremel
- some superglue (a couple of dots to hold the edge in place while everything was re-laid up)
- gflex epoxy
- durasuft 4001 patch
Rotated too quick on a b2 and smashed my tail into the rail (it made a cool bonk noise). Also did some work on my wet edges since I had the West Systems G/flex 650 already flowin. now all my skis are back to ridable. Need a little wax but that's not a repair so this is where we end today.
9' of new edge. 5 screws. G/flex 650. Then a full stick of ptex to get everything smooth so I can maybe wax them. This was my first edge replacement, Ive got a few more to do but this was the worst damage and the sidewall was starting to seperate so they're good to practice on. Probably the next one will look a bit cleaner at the end. Ive gotta buy a hacksaw.
