Tuesday, March 4, 2008

A good use for a snow board

The need to expose Alexi to extreme weather and cold was calling again so I had to fix his chariot.
I found an old snow board. Ripped it down the middle with a tile saw (Man, did that feel good to do to a snow board. I highly recommend taking that action to any snowboard you may find). I then matched the two halves in a vice so that the new edged was exposed. A belt sander then made a very nice strait edge for the inside runner. The Shaping was designed to maximize front shovel area with tappering down in the rear (thus a long, thin triangle of snow board was removed). the struts were mounted off center to the inside to aid in chariot stability. I fixed base gouges with petex and waxed the bases with blue hydroflurocarb. The next thing to do was to test the new beast.
A quick pit stop check on chariot driver with auxilary crew (lowie and theo) looking on.


Wiffy testing the new rig.

It worked fantastically well. Slightly heavier on the up, but not much. On the down it was a dream. Floating perfect and very high nearly no drag as it tracked smoothly behind the skier.

1 comment:

jamesharry said...

that's brilliant to widen the platform by mounting the skis off center. Nice!