Post your latest repair.

Lenny-

Lenny-

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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!

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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.

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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
 
Glove took an L rip so I darned it a bit again but the fabric around that rip is getting so thin I may just patch it. They're still good though.

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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
 
14495914:OFF3P said:
View attachment 1059969sorry 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
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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.

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I went to 50 a small skinny rail and fell off and ran into the support leg lol

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What exactly did you do? I have the same dent on the nose of one of my crushin cans and never bothered to do anything about it
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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

all in that order
 
Rotated too quick on a b2 and smashed my tail into the rail (it made a cool bonk noise).

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1069020.jpegnow all my skis are back to ridable. Need a little wax but that's not a repair so this is where we end today.
 
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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.
 
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