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Took pics with a pocket microscope of armada and volkl sintered bases

dolanslebensraum
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May 11 2020 9:27PM

The first 2 pictures are of the base on the arv 106 ti which armada claims is sintered. The first is at 60x magnification and the second is at 120x

The next pictures are from the sintered base of the volkl yumi.

The armada base (pic 1 and 2) has been waxed and scraped a couple times while the volkl base (pic 3 and 4) is factory fresh. I think the 2 skis bases look similar, although the armadas seem to have a more checkered appearance. I dont know what the grey freckles and black freckles represent—im hoping one of you wax gurus can tell me! The white splotches on the armadas i think is wax residue- im not sure though.

anywho, i hope at least some of you find this detritis interesting

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little1337
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May 11 2020 9:33PM

If the World Health Organization put as much effort into Coronavirus as you put into sintered bases, we would have a cure by now

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dolanslebensraum
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May 11 2020 10:02PM

little1337If the World Health Organization put as much effort into Coronavirus as you put into sintered bases, we would have a cure by now

Haha. Dont make fun of my assburgers

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Non_State_Actor
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May 11 2020 10:11PM

Are the yumis your groomer ski?

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dolanslebensraum
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May 11 2020 10:45PM

mystery3Are the yumis your groomer ski?

No you clown choad they are my moms

**This post was edited on May 14th 2020 at 3:06:32am

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Non_State_Actor
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May 11 2020 11:11PM

DolanReloadedNo you clown choad they are mom moms

No need to be defensive, I've tried out my wife's groomer skis, they're really fun. I wouldn't want to be on a 153cm piste ski on anything steep or difficult because they are short and super turny but they're fun in the right conditions.

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VT_scratch
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May 11 2020 11:19PM

holy shit, this is getting real AF I kinda love it

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TRVP_ANGEL
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May 12 2020 1:03AM

can you also use that pocket microscope to find the person that asked?

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Julius_Steezer
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May 12 2020 5:48AM

Ngl even with isolation boredom hitting hard, taking multiple microscopic pictures of 2 different skis is one of the top gear nerd things I’ve ever seen on NS. Kudos OP

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crustyboot.420
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May 12 2020 6:14AM
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CatdickBojangles
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May 12 2020 7:36AM

Dolan is about to uncover every conspiracy in the ski industry and flip it upside down. Go for bindings next like the Reactor tried to do.

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TheClap.
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May 12 2020 8:49AM

Why isn’t this in gear talk?

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Ghost_BLandzV2
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May 12 2020 9:57AM

TheClap.Why isn’t this in gear talk?

Lets be real nobody gives a fuck about gear talk

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SuspiciousFish
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May 12 2020 11:12AM

I was on shrooms once and had one of those pocket microscope things. I literally looked at a wood table for 2 hours. It was crazy, like looking into a whole different world.

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Ghost_BLandzV2
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May 12 2020 11:43AM

SuspiciousFishI was on shrooms once and had one of those pocket microscope things. I literally looked at a wood table for 2 hours. It was crazy, like looking into a whole different world.

One time I ate 3 grams of pocket microscopes and I looked at shrooms for 2 hours straight. It was so beautiful it changed my life

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Skibumsmith
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May 12 2020 1:40PM

Get a stone grind on only one of the armadas and compare the two.

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Granby_killdozer
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May 12 2020 3:59PM

You should see what they look like with DPS phantom on them

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scratchskier321
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May 13 2020 12:18AM

what are the shiny crystal looking specs?

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onenerdykid
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May 13 2020 2:26AM

Everything about this thread is awesome. This is why I love NS.

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little1337
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May 13 2020 9:00AM

TheClap.Why isn’t this in gear talk?

Can't get MOTM if you make gear talk threads I guess

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scratchskier321
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May 13 2020 3:14PM

onenerdykidEverything about this thread is awesome. This is why I love NS.

tell us what we are seeing in these microscope photos

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patagonialuke
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May 13 2020 5:07PM

scratchskier321tell us what we are seeing in these microscope photos

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dolanslebensraum
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May 14 2020 3:05AM

mystery3No need to be defensive, I've tried out my wife's groomer skis, they're really fun. I wouldn't want to be on a 153cm piste ski on anything steep or difficult because they are short and super turny but they're fun in the right conditions.

No worries man i was just joking around. Clown choads are underated anyways. I would like to try head supershapes some time. I saw a vid of some gangster euro dude doing a dub 10 on supershapes. Im sure one rail hit on them would completely total the edges but they probably carve like a mofo on bath salts.

**This post was edited on May 14th 2020 at 3:12:58am

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dolanslebensraum
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May 14 2020 3:18AM

nolliebackflip

This is great haha

SuspiciousFishI was on shrooms once and had one of those pocket microscope things. I literally looked at a wood table for 2 hours. It was crazy, like looking into a whole different world.

Ive been busting it out on everything for the past few days. Pretty sweet for only 15 bucks.

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ColoradoDogfart
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May 14 2020 1:44PM

Homie you gotta lay off the adderall...please for the love of god this is getting out of hand

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dolanslebensraum
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May 14 2020 1:56PM

I have another picture and a theory about what we are looking at.

After scraping the waxed armadas, looking thru the scope there are areas that are mostly grey with a few dark spots. These areas seem to not have had the scraper tool grinding them. On the other hand, in the middle of the picture you see black spots with a bright white line on one side of them.

i think the normal grey area represents base material that has wax dissolved in the polyethylene. And i think when you scrape the ski, you squeeze the wax out of some areas, (these areas turn black bc they dont have any wax in them) and you build up wax residue at the side of each black area which shows up as a bright white line on the side of the black area.

i think the polyethylene base material might actually be softer than you think seeing as you apparently can squeeze the wax out of the amorphous parts of the base when you scrape it.

the main reason i think this is whats going on is because pretty much every bright white streak of wax is right next to an area that is completely black

what do you guys think....

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dolanslebensraum
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May 14 2020 1:59PM

ColoradoDogfartHomie you gotta lay off the adderall...please for the love of god this is getting out of hand

Dude chill. Im not the only one who finds this shit interesting

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Caveman.
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May 15 2020 12:17AM

DolanReloadedDude chill. Im not the only one who finds this shit interesting

I wonder if you also can see any differences in the pigment

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dolanslebensraum
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May 15 2020 4:20AM

Caveman.I wonder if you also can see any differences in the pigment

Yeah you can see the border where the stenciled in armada letters are slid into the black background. Ill post a picture tomorrow

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ModMommy
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Sep 28 2020 6:15PM

Can I have an update on this

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