Ski Biopsy

[Idris]

This was the Mullets thread but I think it should be here in tech talk

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic20806.jpg

The Blizzards are reativly new (less than 5 years old)

The Rossis are a clasic however....but a valid one for Mulletizer's question, this was at one point and may still be the most popular ski ever!

Blizzard

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic20804.jpg

Ptex base,Vertical laminate wood core, epoxy around the core, plastic cap, 2 layers of fiberglass between the base and the core, one not as wide as the other,fiberglass layer just under the cap.

Rossi

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic20805.jpg

Ptex, Steel braid in fberglass sub base, two part epoxy core, plastic sidewalls and topsheet, aluminum top edges...

From memory an old Dynastar course (the gold ones with strawberries on the tips) had almost nothing in them, a u shaped piece of steel running through a completly epoxy core...the sidewalls were just the edges of the core, with the top being cosmetic only!...they had edges and ptex base of course but not much else!

[Idris]

Here are a few more...the chair building continues..all the blue in the pictures is from my hacksaw...it's falling apart.

Rossi Power T

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic21868.jpg

VAS system is just strips of rubber, the ski is mainly epoxy with a strip of ali in the topsheet and base

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic21869.jpg

Kastle tele/xcountry

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic21866.jpg

plain woodcore

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic21867.jpg

gtv tele/xcountry

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic21864.jpg

same again ...no edges

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic21865.jpg

Dynastar Airflow system

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic21862.jpg

just epoxy....upper ali edges

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic21863.jpg

Rossignol alpine board

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic21860.jpg

non laminated wood core....balsa or similar

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic21861.jpg

atomic ARX

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic21858.jpg

epoxy core but 2 layers of spring steel in the base!

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic21859.jpg

[FigureEleven]

cool thread, its always fun to see some guts...

[ak_powder_monkey]

I burned some rossi X ciums last year (top of the line XC ski) it was just Ptex base plastic side wall/ top sheet and honeycomb wood core with fiberglass on top (on thin sheet, the honey comb made it burn like a torch wich was pretty cool but it smelled bad, oh the next day it snowed that was also cool.:D

[Mulletizer]

Here's the ski I did. It was a Dynastar altitude tour.

http://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10624/normal_IMGP0565.JPG

I was pretty drunk when I did it which is why the sawing is not too straight... :rolleyes:

[Idris]

Another

Atomic Arc select

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic22154.jpg

Block sandwich construction, ali top rails, plastic under the base.

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic22155.jpg

[Mulletizer]

Thanks for all the pictures Tom.

For some reason, the thing that surprises me about all these skis
is the width of the sidewalls. The only guts of a board I had previously seen were snowboards - they had 1cm thick sidewalls.

Anyone know how thick the sidewalls on fat skis are - like the Seth Pistol or M103 for example?

[Idris]

Originally posted by Mulletizer
Thanks for all the pictures Tom.

For some reason, the thing that surprises me about all these skis
is the width of the sidewalls. The only guts of a board I had previously seen were snowboards - they had 1cm thick sidewalls.

Anyone know how thick the sidewalls on fat skis are - like the Seth Pistol or M103 for example?

Dunno, but a good many of the skis don't have any side wall just core material to the edge....will post some more tomorrow...more 1mm sidewall, and none existant.

[Mulletizer]

I'm thinking that clear sidewalls that you can see the core through should look pretty funky on the skis I make.

[Idris]

More

Rossignol Sport 370

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic22191.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic22192.jpg

Rossignol Open

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic22193.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic22194.jpg

Salamon 9E2S

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic22195.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic22196.jpg