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homemade twins?

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west
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has anyone ever made any if so how did they turn out?
Jun 27 2002 5:38PM
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Sean14456
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i have a pair of old head carve skis that i twinned myself and they were great in their prime, but now i got a real pair of twins and they dont see any on slope time

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Jun 27 2002 8:06PM
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Brit1275
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yeah, i haven't scrounged up the money to buy real twins, so i did it to some old skis. they look real nice though, i'll put some pics up next week. i painted them black with a blue stripe. The only problem is i didn't bother riveting it (to prevent splitting of the layers), and instead used a single bolt in each ski. that works, it just looks kinda crappy.

first i tried heating the tips with a model airplane iron, but that took to long, so i boiled them. that works great, and doesn't burn the base. just boil them for like 10 min, then stick them in a vice and start bending. it'll crack a bunch, but that's ok! have fun!

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Jun 27 2002 8:12PM
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aggro_sk8
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i know i guy who torched the tails of old skis, then stuck em in a vice and bent em down. you have to remount the bindings forward so you're not riding on 6' tails
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Jun 27 2002 10:12PM
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Hedekar
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I made twins about 4 years ago. I took really stiff old head skis that were 200 cm, I cut 30 cm of the tails to make em shorter, then I cut some steel brackets and bent them in a curve and screwed them on to the tails, cut two knotches so the tails would bend up, and screwed the brackets down. It turned out that because I cut so much off the tails, they were way to stiff to hardly flex, but the turned up tails held up really well. I would not reccomend this method though.
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Jun 28 2002 12:59AM
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Hedekar
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My friend made some using a method in an article in POWDER. you drill holes in a semi circle aound your tails, heat up the tails with a heat gun, stick the tails in a vise, bend them, put rivets in the holes drilled, let cool. grind rivets smooth. VOLIA! decent homemade twins. I would reccomend this method.
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Jun 28 2002 1:02AM
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Sean14456
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yeha i used the powder article

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Jun 28 2002 9:07AM
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PocketRocket
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my friend and i did that...one pair broke in the vise, and the others exploded the first jump he hit...which was a big 5, the binding stayed on his boot, but that's about it
Jun 29 2002 1:26AM
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corked180
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I know a guy that made his own twins, he used a heat gun a bent them, then he put duct tape on them cuz they were coming apart.

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Jun 29 2002 2:52AM
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vegabond
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i made soem out of my old head racing skiis.. ill post a pic once i can get the digital camera

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Jun 30 2002 6:58PM
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huckster989
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my friend and I used the powder method and they looked hardcore but we never got around to rivoting them so we just used duct tape. Still its worth it when people look at them and say 'why would you do that?'
Jul 10 2002 1:36AM
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huckster989
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my friend and I used the powder method and they looked hardcore but we never got around to rivoting them so we just used duct tape. Still its worth it when people look at them and say 'why would you do that?'
Jul 10 2002 1:36AM
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alpentalik
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In FREEZE about five years ago they had bolt on twin tips in the product plug section. Ben Bleissner and Griffin Cummings made them down in Hood, they were called SOLUTIONS. They custom fit them to your ski. Those were my first twins, I had 'em bolted on to a pair of K2 Fours...they were probably the best jib ski at the time!


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Jul 10 2002 2:03AM
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shitonmyface
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heat the ends and then bend
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Jul 10 2002 9:31PM
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Sean14456
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i forgot where i heard it, i think it was the xgames announcer, said jon olsson made his own twins

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Jul 10 2002 11:03PM
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sconniestyle
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sorry to bring up such an old post but im making a pair to dick around on on rails at college and i have a question... does it matter if you bend them with the bindings on or should you take the bindings off before you heat and bend?
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Nov 6 2002 3:33PM
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alpentalik
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i don't think it would matter...they would probably be easier to handle and maneuver w/o bindings


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Nov 6 2002 3:48PM
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bibskis
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might leave the skis wicked squirelly though cause of the short tail unless u mount the bindings forward




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Nov 6 2002 5:56PM
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