Repairing ski base?

Hi!

I ski almost exclusively off-piste, and needless to say my skis take a
lot of beating.
The damage to the steel am I able to repair myself.

But I've got some really deep grooves to the base (that fortuantly
haven't penetrated into the core of the ski).

Any suggestion to what products can be used to fill in the grooves?

Anybody know of books or resources on the web about maintance and
repairing skis?

Thanks guys!
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Tor
Bergen, Norway


We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With
our thoughts, we make the world.

Tor wrote:

Anybody know of books or resources on the web about maintance and
repairing skis?

Aha! My first chance of the new season to recommend Tognar Tool Works;
and it's so appropriately named...

http://www.tognar.com/volkl.html

[posted and mailed]

lal_truckee wrote in news:2qbj0sFtnpjtU1@uni-
berlin.de:

http://www.tognar.com/volkl.html

Did you know the "base waxing" link is broken. It 404's on me.

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Chuck wrote:
[posted and mailed]

lal_truckee wrote in news:2qbj0sFtnpjtU1@uni-
berlin.de:


http://www.tognar.com/volkl.html


Did you know the "base waxing" link is broken. It 404's on me.

Interesting - when I go back to the home page and trace down to the
"tips and tricks" page it's at
http://www.tognar.com/tips_tricks_information_ski_snowboard_waxing_tunin g_repair_tools.html
and the "base waxing" link works.

So the evidence suggests that the volkl.html link is a partial link left
over from some Tognar previous web development, and shouldn't be used.
Probably Tognar needs to do some cleanup of their web site dead pages.

If you use the link from the home page
(http://www.tognar.com/tips_tricks_information_ski_snowboard_waxing_tunin g_repair_tools.html)
everything appears to work.

Sorry that my bookmarks hit on that obsolete link page.

Just what I was looking for!
Thank you!
:-)
--
Tor


We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With
our thoughts, we make the world.

lal_truckee wrote:

Tor wrote:

Anybody know of books or resources on the web about maintance and
repairing skis?

Aha! My first chance of the new season to recommend Tognar Tool Works;
and it's so appropriately named...

http://www.tognar.com/volkl.html

Well, I was about to do the same, until I saw he was from
Norway. I would think he is looking for a source a little
closer to home.

Sam "6 weeks to Loveland" Seiber

On 2004-09-09 23:24:57 +0200, Sam Seiber said:

lal_truckee wrote:

Tor wrote:

Anybody know of books or resources on the web about maintance and
repairing skis?

Aha! My first chance of the new season to recommend Tognar Tool Works;
and it's so appropriately named...

http://www.tognar.com/volkl.html

Well, I was about to do the same, until I saw he was from
Norway. I would think he is looking for a source a little
closer to home.

Sam "6 weeks to Loveland" Seiber

One would have thought, since I am from "the birthplace of skiing",
that here's a dude that really got it made...
Believe it or not, there's simply nothing like Tognar Tool Works in Norway!
Too much freaking oil revenues has made us rich and lazy, I guess...

If you need to repair your skis, you hand them over to your local
sportsstore, they probably send them away to a specialist, and at the
end of the day the result is: you pay big bucks for something that you
could easily fix yourself.
Bottom line: I'm neither rich nor lazy!

Tor "12 weeks to Hemsedal" Løseth
http://www.hemsedal.com/index.jsp?SD...GE_USERLANG=en
--
Tor


We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With
our thoughts, we make the world.

All you really need to repair smallish base gouges is (i) a PTex candle,
(ii) something to light it on fire with and (iii) a metal scraper. I'm
pretty sure you can find (ii) and (iii) in Norway. The snazzy metal scrapers
that ski stores sell are Sandvik, which are made in Sweden and - so far as I
can tell - intended for refinishing furniture. You're at least physically
closer to Sweden than we are in the US; if you can't stomach buying
something Swedish, I'm sure you can find an equivalent at a hardware store
or something.

I would've though you could buy PTex *somewhere* in Norway. If not, you
could always put in a 40 cent mail order to Tognar. In a pinch, I'm told you
can use those plastic harnesses they use to hold 6-packs of your favorite
beverage together, though I've never tried it myself. I don't know if they
have those in Norway ... maybe to concerned about strangling ducks.

sjjohnston wrote:

All you really need to repair smallish base gouges is (i) a PTex candle,
(ii) something to light it on fire with and (iii) a metal scraper. I'm
pretty sure you can find (ii) and (iii) in Norway. The snazzy metal scrapers
that ski stores sell are Sandvik, which are made in Sweden and - so far as I
can tell - intended for refinishing furniture. You're at least physically
closer to Sweden than we are in the US; if you can't stomach buying
something Swedish, I'm sure you can find an equivalent at a hardware store
or something.

Wide putty knife.

I would've though you could buy PTex *somewhere* in Norway. If not, you
could always put in a 40 cent mail order to Tognar. In a pinch, I'm told you
can use those plastic harnesses they use to hold 6-packs of your favorite
beverage together, though I've never tried it myself. I don't know if they
have those in Norway ... maybe to concerned about strangling ducks.

Seth the Wise and Gracious said that you could use those to repair
sintered bases, which I guess is all of them now. I did it once,
melting the stuff with my trusty steam-iron -- set two clicks warmer
than 'silk', which I use for waxing. It worked, sort of, but was pretty
messy and didn't look anywhere near as nice as p-tex. It would probably
work better if you've had more practice.

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The Real Bev wrote:
sjjohnston wrote:

All you really need to repair smallish base gouges is (i) a PTex candle,
(ii) something to light it on fire with and (iii) a metal scraper. I'm
pretty sure you can find (ii) and (iii) in Norway. The snazzy metal
scrapers
that ski stores sell are Sandvik, which are made in Sweden and - so far
as I
can tell - intended for refinishing furniture. You're at least
physically
closer to Sweden than we are in the US; if you can't stomach buying
something Swedish, I'm sure you can find an equivalent at a hardware
store
or something.


Wide putty knife.


I would've though you could buy PTex *somewhere* in Norway. If not, you
could always put in a 40 cent mail order to Tognar. In a pinch, I'm told
you
can use those plastic harnesses they use to hold 6-packs of your
favorite
beverage together, though I've never tried it myself. I don't know if
they
have those in Norway ... maybe to concerned about strangling ducks.


Seth the Wise and Gracious said that you could use those to repair
sintered bases, which I guess is all of them now. I did it once,
melting the stuff with my trusty steam-iron -- set two clicks warmer
than 'silk', which I use for waxing. It worked, sort of, but was pretty
messy and didn't look anywhere near as nice as p-tex. It would probably
work better if you've had more practice.

Light em and let them drip

Actually, that's a subset of the "adjust your mental state, staple
plastic bags to the ceiling, put pans of water on the floor, light the
bags, turn out all the lights, and listen to the flaming drips roar
their way to splashdown" school of "better living through chemistry"
iconography.

Voo-pah! Voo-pah! Voo-pah!

Disconnect the smoke detector first.