"Monique Y. Herman" wrote in message .. .
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 at 16:47 GMT, H. R. Bob Hofmann penned:

Monique:

If you have a digital camera, maybe you could take a couple of photos
and make them available to those of us who know about DIY repair. We
could look at the photos and give an opinion if they could be done by
an amateur(sp?) or would need professional repairs to be done. My
experience with gouges is that home repairs usually work ok if the
gouges are cleaned out carefully before the ptex is dripped into the
gouge. There is no way to color match, if the skiis are bright
yellow, for example, but who cares as long as the bottoms are
reasonably smooth. I highly recommend getting the Tognar catalog, or
at least viewing it on the web. It will give you a good idea of what
tools are available for making repairs, and you can get somewhat of a
feeling for what repairs might actually cost the shop doing the
repairs.

Thank you for the offer! I just dragged the skis into the living room
to prep them for their first gig as models ... but upon closer
inspection, the damage really isn't that bad; not nearly as deep as I'd
remembered. The S.O.'s are the ones with worse damage, and he says he
isn't bothered by it, so I guess I have nothing to report.

Hope this helps, stay away from the rocks at Keystone and Breck. :-)

I guess it just surprised me that Keystone, tourist mecca and hence
presumably posh and protective (go alliteration, go!) would bust up my
skis, while A-Basin left no more of a mark than would a chamois cloth.

I guess that goes to prove what they say about assumption! It makes an
ass out of me and umption!


Monique - As long as you keep your sense of humor, life is good. Look
at it this way, now you don't have to worry any more about when you
get the first gouge on the skiis. It is sort of like the first ding
on a new car. :-)

Bob Hofmann