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  1. 09-23-2004, 04:20 AM #1
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    Bro Model bases

    Kind of leading on from this thread .

    I noticed that in all the threads on the Bro Model that the bases were always going to be P-Tex 6000. On the PMGear website it states that bases are going to be P-Tex 4001.

    Am I missing a thread where this change was discussed or is it actually a typo on the PMGear website?
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    i'd like to know also. i don't know about the rest of you guys, but i bought the stixs with burly bases. maybe it was just for the maggot special.
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  3. 09-24-2004, 01:02 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by AltaPowderDaze
    i'd like to know also. i don't know about the rest of you guys, but i bought the stixs with burly bases. maybe it was just for the maggot special.

    Guys - The terminology sounds different but our plastics suppliers told us no one sells 6000 as 6000. In other words, they said they hadn't heard of it. So we tried both 4001 clear and black and whacked the shit out of the stuff skiing over rocks and it held as good as what AK promotes as the 6000.

    So we went with it. If someone shows me otherwise, then I'll call bullshit on the guy who said it. But we're getting the bases from Crown and they are burly. Takes five more passes on the belt to get the leftover resin out of them than the previous bases we tried because they're so tough. And they take wax really well. I think you'll like them. I have gouged them every bit as deep as the base on my NKOs and they take it every bit as well. I'm not sure if 6000 is hype or reality, but I know we have burl bases.

    Since the Bro is primarily a powder ski, we went with black because some scientists did a hydrology study on bases and found clear bases better (faster) on wet snow, black better (faster) on cold snow. Something to do with refracted sunlight...
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  4. 09-24-2004, 01:06 AM #4
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    wow,

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  5. 09-24-2004, 11:15 AM #5
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    The researcher to which Pat is referring is Sam Colbeck, a physicist and former researcher at the U.S. Army's Cold Regions Research Laboratory in Hanover, N.H.


    Here's few links for more information, for most, probably way too much information:

    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scite..._olympics.html

    http://physics.iop.org/IOP/Press/PWD/PWD-03(02).html

    http://www.stormingmedia.us/26/2632/A263252.html

    http://www.stormingmedia.us/97/9729/A972912.html

    http://snobear.colorado.edu/Markw/Sn...g_physics.html
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