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Lexan on the bottom of skis?
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I was reading a thread and it reminded me of this. I was at lowes looking for lexan and asked this old dude where it was and he showed me and asked what i was using it for. I told him for skiing and snowboarding and he actually had a really good idea: instead of covering a whole box with lexan, thus spending alot of money, just screw pieces onto the bottom of old skis, and then you could basically slide anything you wanted to. I think this could work really well, has anybody actually tried it? Of course it wouldn't work too well when other people want to sesh with you, but it's an interesting idea for a pair of skis in the summer.
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that may work if you sliding something like pressure treated wood or a rail, but i dont know how well that would work since the lexan is there on the box so there is less friction between your skis and the wood (or metal), not between the lexan and wood (which would be the case if you screwed them to your skis). i think it would be almost the same as just removing the edges from your ski... the ski wouldn't catch an edge but it may not slide to well.
Hey anything is worth a try though
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i think it would work, it basically like the soap shoe idea
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Like i was saying i have no idea how well it would work, but its a cool idea. It really comes down to friction between lexan and stuff like wood, pvc and maybe metal (metal might easily crack it tho). If it slides well on wood then you could save some $ there and make some sweet rails and stuff, like imagine for a giant butter box all you need is small strips of lexan and a giant piece of plywood
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hell, why not strap your lexan-covered box to your feet and slide your skis
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that doesnt sound liek a good idea. just make a box
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yeah im pretty sure that wouldent work. Ur skis slide on lexan but i dont know if lexan slides on anything. Plus it would be hard to attach and u would loose ur edges.Have u ever tried sliding a rail without edges.
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also, so are you going to grind anything,. it'd be like walking with flippers....
at least with a lexan box you have a runin and a jump on etc. this you'd have to make it a step on .
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