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My new chamber showed up today from FP. This one is a hell of a lot better.

after the ski got shot across the driveway I didn’t look at it for 2 days. Friday I looked it over and it wasn’t looking too bad. On the starboard side portion of the tray there was some cracked glass. It appears that the radius corner of the tray took the brunt of the impact and then hit the...

San Diego’s weather is broken lately so progress has been a little slow. The B pipe debacle also got me down. The chamber is on its way back to FP. Wednesday at work I got an alert from my camera and saw this. I couldn’t bare to even inspect it until today. It hit the ground so hard it dented...

I used spring pins on mine and can move it up and down but it’s a bare hull. The issue I have is slop between the tubes. I should’ve made the holes bigger so the pin engages easier. I would also make the brackets that attach to the ski a little longer to give a little more working room. It’s...

I made one, I def know what I’d do different next time. Good job

Welded up an exhaust outlet. And a scupper flange for my buddy’s krash.

This morning I threw down another coat of gel. Once that was tacky I did a layer of mat. Ran out of laminating resin and acetone. Got the rough sanding done on the filler I put in the tray. Got a few more spots to take care of and then I can prime. The weather isn’t permitting that this weekend...

Got the foothold plug sanded down. I then hot glued it to some leftover pink foam board I had. The foam will melt with acetone and other solvents so after claying the seam and waxing the plug I sprayed multiple layers of PVA. Then once that was dry I mixed up some red tooling gel and sprayed on...

Today I fabbed up a 2010+ super jet to sxr 1500 pole conversion bracket. Designed it all in solidworks. The geometry for the pivot I already had designed for my square nose bracket. Changed the width a little to accommodate the stainless hood mounts. Cut it out of 3/8” 6061. There’s stainless...

Here’s the nose and foothold ready to shoot. My gun wasn’t working right. Chinese amazon junk. So the primer is super heavy. Oh well. Preview of the foothold in the tray

Got all my pieces 3D printed. I then superglued them together. I then took some stainless tig rod, heated it up with the torch and then set it into the back of the part. This in my brain, will act like rebar and support the glue joint. I then sanded the print with 60 grit and did a skim coat...

This morning I designed a front foot hold. It’s arched and tapered to fit my foot better. It has height to clear 25mm underpad and turf. I had to split it into 3 parts to fit on my 3D printer. I’m going to use these prints to make a mold and then make the part out of carbon fiber. After seeing...

Got my strap plate glassed on today. I shouldn’t have rushed it, but did and there’s a few trapped bubbles in the relief holes. Oh well. I should’ve wet set it, then filled in the grooves with thickened epoxy, then laid my layers over it. I’m going to do one more layer of 7oz over the full width...

I’m at a little bit of a standstill on the build. I’m trying to find a decent vacuum pump so I can get going on my carbon parts. I haven’t ordered the carbon or more epoxy because I haven’t found the pump. It all snowballs. I’m waiting on some carbide inserts so I can shorten my couch...

Thanks Stu. Watched you vid a few times to see where the cuts should be and also for the dimension to drop the exhaust

Got a little more done on the plug today. Sanded it, redid the pole opening, and did another skim coat where I broke through down to foam. The epoxy total fair is working surprisingly well. I then popped the plug off the ski and spread some filler all around the edges of the plug.

The carbon nose piece that was on the ski is delaminated, cracked and useless. I was gonna try and epoxy and clamp it to pull a mold off of it but instead I decided to just shape my own. I glues some pink foam together and got to shaping. Then I coated with a layer of total fair epoxy filler...

It’s a “chakine”. China Dakine. It’s a strap purchased on Amazon. It’s a buddy’s strap. I still gotta get mine and hopefully by then I can source actual Dakine. They are functionally the same, I’d just want the logo. I didn’t plan on producing these, but if there’s enough interest I can do a run...

I’d for sure be in for that

Figured out how I’m gonna mount my straps. Made a piece out of 16ga stainless and welded inserts to it. This will get glassed down to my new tray floor. The inserts are m6x25 to allow for underpadding. Around the inserts I designed holes to act like a UFO mount. The slots give it more surface...