Looking For DIY Twin Tip Instructional

**splat** · 01-16-2005, 12:18 PM

Just got a call from a big name pro looking to convert some Rossi XXXX's into twintips. Seems there was an garage instructional on how to do this posted or in a magazine somewhere. I have my own ideas, but would like to see how others have done it. links??

**splat** · 01-16-2005, 01:06 PM

The Team Rider XXXX does not have a twin tip, hop. But that's the ski he wants to twin, probably because of it's inherent durability and his familiarity with it. I think he might have more in mind for it than the average joe, but I didn't ask. Rather than mess with the effective edge, which runs pretty close to the end of that ski, we're looking to probably add a tail tip to it, which would entail splitting it apart and adding glass for the transition from the existing layers to the new tip.

Did the boiling water soften the resin, or just the plastic, edge and topsheet on yours? If you heard cracking noises, that was resin, but I'm wondering if it softened it.

**splat** · 01-16-2005, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by powwrangler

Find some destroyed fatties, cut the tips off, intertwine the layers and shit, use glass, epoxy, paint to match and you are done. Maybe add some rivets in there somewhere. You would have to sand the wood layers of both, split the current tail apart, and kind of intertwine them together for some distance, which might effect the stiffness/softness of the tails.

FYI: I've never done this, just brain stormed it up.

Good luck!

You're pretty much on my train of thought, pw, -splitting the existing ski into layers and adding glass and resin into a uhmw tip (which is what tips are made of), and splicing base into the old base. It would have to be pressed and cooked for max bonding.

**splat** · 01-16-2005, 06:45 PM

Yeah, Tom, we don't want to steal from the effective edge, because I think this guy has some big AK lines in mind. If memory serves me correctly, that would leave about 2 cm's to bond the layers and make a new tip where there was none. Def a whole other ballgame - and not a lot of room to achieve the kind of bond needed.

**splat** · 01-16-2005, 08:53 PM

I can fashion a tip at the shop, got the resin,etc., but am not about to make any new molds - or for that fact give those guys building the bros a reason to be any slower....

**splat** · 01-16-2005, 11:35 PM

That's it. Had natty's pair here for a while after TeleRob bought them from him, didn't remember the tail raising that high, but all the better. Just looking at that curve upwards makes me think adding a tip will be easier than I thought. But I don't think that's enough rise for powder switch. The flat spot is kinda abrupt. But it looks more doable. Thanks for the pic refresher.

edit:
Just called the dude to discuss this. Turns out the new team ski is called the B Squad. It's Rossi's new top race room ski and they're hard to come by. And they have a tail that's raised less than that and square. He did a garage strap-on (tbolts) of some Scratch tips and is gonna see how that works. He'll try to get another pair that we'll heat and delam the tails on, dremmel out the uhmw, then try to build and bond a tip into the tails tight enough it looks like the ski was built that way.

**splat** · 01-17-2005, 12:02 AM

If you say so, hop. But I'll let you be the one to tell Kreitler how to ski.

**splat** · 01-17-2005, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by hop

Pat, you failed to notice that I implied I didn't know what I was talking about.

My bad. No offense meant, hop.

But if that's what he wants, I figure he's got a good idea of what he's gonna do and what it's gonna take to do it. Kent is back on his feet bigtime already and knowing him, he'll want his comeback to be notable.