Edge Dent fix?

[Misfitmonkey]

Tried a 450 on, and just clipped the top of a rail with the inside edge of my trailing ski. The shape of the rail is in my sidewall now, anyway what should I due to fix it, in other threads people said to cut out the edge and epoxy it, but was wondering If just shaving if the bulging part and making it flush would somewhat work.

Lmk what yall think

 

[tdollo]

I'd heat up the bulged base a bit and then hit it with a hammer until you reach your desired shape.

 

[tomatonater]

Use some heat and beat that sucker down. It looks to me like your base may have a small crack in it too. I know base damage along edges always suck because generally ptex repairs don’t hold. There are three options to fix this issue.

1) Buy a base patch set and use that to fix the effected area

2) If you have an old broken ski lying about you can cut base material off of that ski and use it to graft into that area

3) Ptex. It probably won’t hold but if your fine with redoing the repair every few skiing days or so then go for it.

 

[johnblaze]

Unfortunately that ski is fucked. You can try to flatten it out a bit with a hammer but it's days are limited.

 

[IsaacNW82]

I would clamp/hammer it as flat as you can get it, then after if it is a minor amount sticking out still try to file that flat. If you can get everything flush or slightly lower than flush that's your best bet. IMO definitely start here.

I've heard of people getting replacement edge sections from tognar (https://www.tognar.com/replacement-ski-edge-section-12-inches/) but its a pretty involved process of cutting out space for the new edge, screwing it in, and covering it up which I haven't tried so can't say how it holds up over time.

One thing I've done out of desperation was to cut out all the messed up edge, file the ends of the edges to gently taper inwards (as to not catch on anything), and fill in the missing space with epoxy which I filed down flush-ish. This repair actually held up very well, and skis the same on snow and ice, but you can sometimes feel it on rails which kinda sucks

 

[skiP.E.I.]

I would clamp/hammer it as flat as you can get it, then after if it is a minor amount sticking out still try to file that flat. If you can get everything flush or slightly lower than flush that's your best bet. IMO definitely start here.

I've heard of people getting replacement edge sections from tognar (https://www.tognar.com/replacement-ski-edge-section-12-inches/) but its a pretty involved process of cutting out space for the new edge, screwing it in, and covering it up which I haven't tried so can't say how it holds up over time.

One thing I've done out of desperation was to cut out all the messed up edge, file the ends of the edges to gently taper inwards (as to not catch on anything), and fill in the missing space with epoxy which I filed down flush-ish. This repair actually held up very well, and skis the same on snow and ice, but you can sometimes feel it on rails which kinda sucks

That edge replacement technique from tognar will hold up great if done properly. Some ski shops can do a super clean job of that too, it shouldn't cost more than $100 for that small amount of edge/base repair if the shop has the repair materials on hand. Done properly it will be almost like new.

I've also done the quicker fix cutting out all the deformed material and filling the space with epoxy and that does work to seal the ski back up.