custom twin-tips?

CaliforniaDouble

CaliforniaDouble

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ok guys, i've heard a couple comments on this and asked a few questions, but tomorrow i'm actually gonna go for it and try to bend my old skis and make them into twin-tips. Yeah, this is kind of ghetto, but hey, i don't use 'em anyways so i might as well try it. So my question is: does anyone have any specific advice on how to do this (right now i'm planning on torching them and bending em in a vice), specifically whether or not i should heat just one or both sides, and if i should do it little by little or all at once. That kind of thing...

 
a couple of years ago they had an article on how to do it on freeze's website

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You might want to make sure they don't have wood cores... i doubt wood bends too well.

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stick the tails in boiled water, then bend them with a door or something

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ive done it... boil them in water for like 25 minutes and then pu tthem under a door and pull HARD

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i used a heat gun (ten min) then under a metal bat n pulled had to do it once or twice worked well untill i got twins

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The old sandwich construction ones bend the best and wood doesn't matter. What won't bend well without breaking are ones made from foam and fiber glass and other wierd crap. The early 90's skis really bend easily.

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of course wood bends, most skis have a wood core that is bent up to make the tip. I think leaving the tips in boiling water would be the best. use some leverage to bend the ski and let it cool while making sure it stays in the bent position. some rivets in th etail when its bend should help keep the materials in place

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what you need is a bulldozer and a goldfish and 7 pounds of marshmellows and a treasure map. Find the X on the map and there will be the secret directions.

 
I remember reading this in make your own twin tips article, I'm not sure to what extent the movement that I will explain below happens, but heres an explaination:

When you bend the ski, the top laminations will be curved with a smaller radius than the bottom ones. Therefore each layer will be at a slightly greater height than the one below it and the layers will be touching each other in different places than when the tail was flat. Putting rivots through the tail after its curved will prevent the layers from sliding back into their origional (flat) positions.

And now a demonstration:

-Take a note book

-bend it into a 'U' shape with spiral on the left

-notice the edge of the front cover is higher than the edge of the back cover

-with the notebook still curved, pinch and hold the right edge

-notice that when you let go of the notebook with your left hand and continue pinching with the right, the notbook is unable to return to a completely flat position

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i think if u cut strips out of the top sheet and fill them with epoxy afterwards it ought to work

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i did that last year with some elan 140 straight skis, all i did was put the tip in boiling water, then bend them like fuckin hell until they were good enough, then let them cool off, haha i habent used them yet, and im sure that they will break really easy...oh well

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dude all you need to do is make like 3 1/2 pounds of fudge, not the poopy kind but the chocolate kind. and then you gotta eat it all, and then you have to drink so much milk you throw up all over the ski. then you must put lighter fluid on your keyboard. after this is done. you have to shoot a cat and rub its innards on the skis and light your keyboard on fire. after this is done, its a good idea to light your ski tails with the fire and use your bare hands to bend the ski tails. then make yourself throw up again to put out the flames. then poop in your grandmothers sink. i hope this incredibly mature post helps you out a lot. im really concerned that you do this right.

 
im gonna have to try this for some rail skis.

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my friend and i just held a waxing iron on the tail for awhile and bent it up with a pair of pliers. i don't think they were a wood core though. i don't know, it worked for us.

 
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