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Thread: BD skin savers disintegrating?
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03-04-2016, 04:23 PM #26
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03-04-2016, 04:30 PM #27
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03-04-2016, 05:09 PM #28Registered User
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I agree with steve the kraft paper or brownpaper shopping bags are used to soak up the glue that is being heated with an iron but I have never tried it
My buddy the MD (I trust him sewing up my lip but he should not be allowed to own tools) tried this method which was going ok until he ran out of bags so he used newspaper which made a big fucking mess so I had to go over with my heatgun & putty knife, digital wax iron, i told buddy he was lucky some professions still do house calls
I have heard some people say "wax paper" when they reallly mean parchment paper, I am betting wax paper would also make a real fuckign mess
if you keep the skin backing that came with your new skins it also works for the re-heat/re-glue job
If a re-heat doesnt work then heat n scrape all the old shit off IMOLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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03-04-2016, 05:10 PM #29Registered User
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I agree with steve the kraft paper or brownpaper shopping bags are used to soak up the glue that is being heated with an iron but I have never tried it
My buddy the MD tried this method which was going ok until he ran out of bags so he used newspaper which made a big fucking mess
I had to go over with my heatgun & putty knife, digital wax iron, i told buddy he was lucky some professions still do house calls
I have heard some people say "wax paper" when they reallly mean parchment paper, I am betting wax paper would also make a real fuckign messLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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03-04-2016, 05:11 PM #30Best regards, Terry
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03-04-2016, 05:14 PM #31
Mine (alpinists, backcountry branded) are sticky and gooey as hell after a season and a half but they still stick fine. Kind of messy to handle at room temperature but I prefer it to my BDs which often just refuse to stick when reapplying skins in the cold for another lap.
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03-04-2016, 05:39 PM #32Registered User
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I've had more probs with G3 than BD
I've got BD,G3, pomoca and IME sooner or later they all fuck up ... reglue with gold labelLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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03-04-2016, 05:46 PM #33Registered User
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On G3 Alpinists. I've never bothered to use skin savers, always glue on glue. When the glue gets gummy and sparse (every 50 days or so of use) I hot iron it smooth, and patch the gaps with gold label. I tried the glue-on sheets once, which was a painfully difficult process, the glue peeled off in patches always seeming to want to attach more too itself than the skins, and the skins sometimes couldn't be separated in cold temps. I replace my skins after every 2 seasons of full-time use. The new G3 skin savers (which came with some skins I received yesterday) look much heavier gauge, are much stiffer and more open weave than any others I've seen.
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03-04-2016, 05:54 PM #34Registered User
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mmmm! award winning red racer
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03-07-2016, 10:48 AM #35
FYI, BD warrantied the skins. New set on their way.
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03-07-2016, 11:22 AM #36
Just noticed yesterday some of the G3 pink was appearing as pink dots on my glue. Like the look of those new G3 savers.
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03-07-2016, 11:37 AM #37
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03-07-2016, 11:59 AM #38
BD skin savers disintegrating?
I always fold mine skin to glue (way easier and quicker). Never had issues with that, even mohair, though I store them glue to glue in the basement at the end of the season.
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03-07-2016, 08:39 PM #39
mine are glue to glue all season but i made the mistake of using the "savers" in the summer. no more.
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03-08-2016, 10:17 AM #41
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03-12-2016, 08:41 PM #42Registered User
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I have always been of the impression that the iron/paper trick is really for heating the glue for scraping, or for doing a heat refreshing of the glue. I have not really been impressed by large amounts of dirt and contaminants sticking to the paper after ironing it
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03-12-2016, 10:03 PM #43
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03-13-2016, 08:23 AM #44
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