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10-28-2022, 12:48 PM #1
Hanging Skis All Season - Thoughts?
Hi guys,
My apartment has this retro ski rack by the door that I've never used cause I'm not sure if flexing the tips with the ski's full weight is good for them. I've always wondered if my initial thoughts on this rack are correct or if I'm being paranoid, so I'm finally asking the mags. What do you guys think?
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10-28-2022, 01:42 PM #2
I have zero evidence to back it up but I personally wouldn't.
My skis are stored horizontally.
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10-28-2022, 02:15 PM #3
Hanging Skis All Season - Thoughts?
I hang all mine by the tips. I’ve seen no issues
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10-28-2022, 02:38 PM #4
I don't hang mine - but mostly because that setup wouldn't work for my out-of-control ski buying habit...but honestly, when I'm bashing into piles at 30mph+ on a regular basis, I can't see how static hanging could be even a minor issue.
I do confess to thinking that it might cause an issue at some point - it's just that on greater reflection it seems to me that the stresses on a ski while actually skiing are far in excess of anything that hanging could ever do.
IMO, of course. (And completely unencumbered by any factual basis.)
Edited to add:
Though I do have some very first-hand experience of trying to unbend a pair of Bonafides. Given the massive forces I saw applied there with little impact, no, I don't think hanging by the tips would make the slightest impact on any decently built ski. To get them close to "back to normal" I had to apply a lot of heat along with bending them. (Funny enough, once I got them back to close, they actually skied pretty normally.)
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10-28-2022, 02:49 PM #5retired ed
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ski against the 2 pegs is going to become flatter in the nose if hung long enuf, and it could even add camber if the tails are strapped too
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10-28-2022, 02:55 PM #6
I have a vertical rack to stand skis up, pegs just hold everything from falling over. Back in the 70's everybody hung skis from the tips between pegs that fit the skis tightly.
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10-29-2022, 04:56 AM #7
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10-29-2022, 05:54 AM #8
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10-29-2022, 09:58 AM #9
Promise not to move
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10-29-2022, 12:04 PM #10Registered User
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old wooden xc skis with tar bases yes I think hanging could deform them but a modern skis full of epoxy/ plastic/ metal layer/ metal edges and heat cured I doubt it, store them however works best for you
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10-29-2022, 02:14 PM #11Registered User
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Given enough time the skis will deform - but that's probably a LOT of time given this is a relatively small force even over a long period of time. Could always add a small support shelf underneath the tails so the tip rack is just preventing the skis from falling over.
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10-29-2022, 05:18 PM #12Registered User
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Remount the rack 8" lower so the skis rest on the floor and the rack keeps them upright? This seems like a simple solution, no?
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10-29-2022, 05:27 PM #13Registered User
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what do you do if the skis are not all the same length ?
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10-29-2022, 05:34 PM #14
Good for camber, bad for rocker. But, you know you're going to be shopping for new skis in a year or two anyway sho why worry? It will take longer than that before it bends them enough to matter most likely.
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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10-29-2022, 05:53 PM #15
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10-29-2022, 06:16 PM #16Registered User
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11-17-2022, 05:36 PM #18Registered User
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Goddamn I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that bottle jack.
I screwed up a pair of modern carbon/epoxy skis not by hanging, but by sticking them in a floor rack without leaning them on anything. They were leaning out of the bottom rack in a way that one ski become permanently bent after 3 or 4 months stored like this. This made me realize that skiing forces are very different than forces that get applied for long periods without giving the fiberglass a chance to relax back to where it wants to be. Epoxy is just plastic, and plastic has a memory. I wouldn't hang them from the tip, especially not on a rack like that which applies an asymmetrical load. Moving the rack down so they rest on the floor seems like the logical option.
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11-17-2022, 10:47 PM #19
It was a little interesting, though I avoided any truly exciting action.
What's crazier is that those aren't the wildest bends I produced in that effort.
As for skiing vs long-term. Perhaps.
Though in my example up there, I left it bent like that for hours with no impact.
Heat was the eventual ticket to holding the bend and getting the ski back to a reasonable approximation of normal. (Which makes total sense, since epoxy has a glass point where it softens and can be molded/bent. I have carbon/fiberglass speed skates that mold the same way, and it's pretty remarkable, when you reach that temperature, how pliable the material gets, and how it will completely hold that shape once cooled.)
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11-18-2022, 12:44 AM #20
Hours but not months
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11-18-2022, 09:12 AM #21
Split the ocd difference and hang from the tails instead?
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11-18-2022, 10:49 AM #22
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11-18-2022, 11:37 AM #23Registered User
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anybody try hanging from the the toe piece that would probably work better ?
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11-18-2022, 11:40 AM #24
You’re nuts man!
Tips or tail, NOBODY hangs from the toe piece.
Nobody.
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