Pomoca skin tear fix?

I’ve been running the Pomoca Free Pro 2.0’s for the last 3-4 seasons and I’m going thru at least 1 set a season that tears.

It’s not ideal that my main geographical ski location is subject to low snow and rocky conditions but it’s getting ridiculous. I’m configuring torn skins and not torn skin sets to make usable sets.

Today I was out and tore another skin….doesn’t help our snowpack is 50cm

Any beta on how to fix these? I’ve used various types of fishing line but it’s a very temporary fix usually only lasting a few tours.

I’m hearing a thicker nylon stitch is giving users a longer fix but not a total fix…any insight on real world fix/ usage would be welcome.

Cheers- Thx guys and gals!

-CP

It's a pretty simple fix.

https://www.roirecreation.com/brands...-palu-crystal/

Sew it using dental floss…non-waxed.

Dental floss works well but can be hard to get the repaired area to lay flat afterwards.better sewing technique will help. But what I liked better was to strip the glue around the tear with a heat gun and metal scraper. Then put a flexible drywall patch cut out to an inch or so bigger than the tear and coat with aquaseal. Once the aquaseal is dry, dab on some skin glue in the area you stripped.

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Originally Posted by Blaster

Dental floss works well but can be hard to get the repaired area to lay flat afterwards.better sewing technique will help. But what I liked better was to strip the glue around the tear with a heat gun and metal scraper. Then put a flexible drywall patch cut out to an inch or so bigger than the tear and coat with aquaseal. Once the aquaseal is dry, dab on some skin glue in the area you stripped.

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I was gona say this^^, put a piece of plastic bag over the area with something heavy to flaten out the AQS/ patch really good, I think you could make the patch on the bigger side even as as wide as the skin with no problems,

from what I've seen the stitching of a skin is never a very good looking fix and pulls making the patch job uneven and the snow sticks to the stitching

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Originally Posted by shirk

It's a pretty simple fix.

https://www.roirecreation.com/brands...-palu-crystal/

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The recommendation to use skin savers makes me question them, do you use them?

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Originally Posted by mr_pretzel

The recommendation to use skin savers makes me question them, do you use them?

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I use Colltex without skin savers. But do use the skin savers when stored (in cold location) in summer

I think the lighter a skin is the more delicate they are and it would appear skin MFGRs just kept making skins lighter & more delicate so I wonder if they have gone too delicate, so mayeb buy skins that aren't so delicate ?

People have been tearing skins forever but lately I've read about people tearing them while taking them off the ski which is ridiculous

I've got older Pomoca/ G3/ BD that have been reglued with gold label, you wana learn to re-glue, a sealed tube lasts forever so buy glue early in the season cuz when you need it the store will be they out

my skins have never torn

I don't use skin savers, definatley store in a cool place,

I had good luck fixing a tear with a dryer sheet patch and aquaseal, which I learned from XXX-er. It has held up for a whole season.
And yeah, don't ever buy Kohla. They will tear from ripping skins off the ski from the heel, which is definitely ridiculous.
"Light is right until it isn't" -Noah Howell

How big of a dryer sheet patch did you use ? I kinda think if one is wanking about with AQS and a dryer sheet anyway just make the patch skin-width with a 2" legthwise overlap for max strength, thin app of AQS and re-gold label ?

I fixed my Sled-head kids onesey with AQS over x-mas, only problem it was 2 ply gortex so the AQS had to go on the outside but I think it won't matter after he spills a bottle of 2-stroke oil on it

Strong move on th skin repair but I can't believe you would trust the idle ramblings of some guy huffing Tolulene whilst drinking cheap wine, so if you find yourself stocking up on BBQ skewers and FG matt you will know you have a problem

I wonder if/ where/ when the designer decides they have made a product too light is or am I just wrong ?

I have a couple pair of those light blue Dynafit branded Pomoca's and IME they are about right for weight vs toughness, the first versions of G3's with the 1st tip hooks are also tough enough and while the hooks look minimalist they are not as light as one would think and the hooks limit adjustability , the old BDs are tough/ heavy and the only skins i havent had to re-glue but they have probably used the least

https://www.skiskinsonline.com made in Montana.

I found it ^^ was interesting to read about their 79$ reglue process, there are many intersting things if you read that whole thing carefuly, its a mechanized glue strip & reglue and it is different glue than the goldlabel in a tube ?

Check out the skins they won't reglue, the glueless skins that glue won't stick to (which is what I found) they want to charge mo money for G3 and some they won't do

if their glue is everything they say its a game changer and so what is it ??