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Old February 9th 06, 01:37 AM
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I have upload a video from Leonid showing how he steel scrapes skis. I
have reduced the size so it doesn't take up so much bandwidth - it's
now about 1.7MBs. You may download it at
http://www.nordicskiracer.com/Equipm...elscraping.wmv

Mike

Regarding your point #5 - it has been clear to me that your metal
scraping process cannot be the same as mine.


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Old February 10th 06, 02:08 AM
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Ian Harvey of Toko US has a point by point analysis of Kuzmin's thesis:
http://www.skinnyski.com/gear/display.asp?Id=4430. An interesting
point: he waxed Kuzmin's wife's skis for the Birkie a few years back
and says it took 3 days to undo the damage Kuzin had caused.

Gene


"Edgar" wrote:

Zach may be too busy to post his response to the Kuzmin paper on steel
scraping being better than waxing. The paper's abstract says that
stonegriding and waxing are not as good as an alternative treatment.
Kuzmin theorizes that steel scraping is better than waxing because it
picks up less dirt.

Zach's website has an interesting experiment and commentary
cahllenging the Kuzmin thesis.
http://www.engineeredtuning.net/Basematerialdemo.htm

Peer review reports should be interesting.

Edgar

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Old February 10th 06, 03:38 AM
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It's nice of Ian to take the time to do his write up.
It always takes a lot longer to write than for someone to read.

I just wanted to add a comment about the Red Creek steel roto
brush. As Ian highlights Kuzmin used it after waxing and Ian
takes him to task on this. My comment is that Red Creek has
been very specific about when a steel roto brush should be used.
It has never been suggested that a steel roto brush be used after
waxing with warm waxes. Which makes it all the more questionable
why Kuzmin did this.

Rodney

 




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