 Poster: A snowHead
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I've never got around to buying 'proper' vices for serving ski's, relying on my trusty Black and Decker. It's not perfect so as an excuse to learn some CAD skills I designed a 'plug' to fit the work bench holes. So far it seems to work really well.
I can run these for people but the price of 3d printing them is reasonably steep (about £15 per pair). That said if there was enough interest I'd look at having a few injection moulded which should reduce the cost.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nice idea fella 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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AndAnotherThing.., good luck, got some free with my work mate.
If you can invent a Dremel attachment for sharpening skis I'm in.
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jbob, ah. The ones I got with mine were too low. I wonder if they did different sizes. When I looked I couldn't find any.
Have a dremel chain saw sharpener. That might work 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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AndAnotherThing..,mine is not a Black and Decker just a cheap knock off and you may well be right the blocks are small but I haven't tried them.
I think it's clever, but with a production cost of £15 x 2 pair x2 for a margin, it would be more expensive than a vice. I suspect the volume might be too low for mass production. Maybe I can make some from wood!
I think the 3d printing revolution is going to be big.
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jbob, Yep, the price for the 3d printed versions is a bit steep. That's mostly because we run professional kit that uses proprietary materials which pushes up the costs. I'll have a look today to see if they could be done cheaper.
Retail for about £15 for a set of 4 might be about right.
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I'd expect that printing it from generic ABS or whatever should be a lot cheaper (of the order of pennies for the feedstock, at least). There are a bunch of companies out there that will do 3D printing for you... might be pricey for small runs, but for medium sized ones it'll probably be much cheaper than moulding. I've used Shapeways and Ponoko in the past, both have been fine.
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AndAnotherThing.., good luck, got some free with my work mate.
If you can invent a Dremel attachment for sharpening skis I'm in. |
try the 'edge tune' works a treat, quite a few being used in the SW since i brought one in from USA ideal fro races as totally portable no genny required 
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Would it be cheaper to bolt something on to this?
They retail at £3.58
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@Mosha Marc, thread stopper...
It tickles me that back in 1995 i was getting 3D SLA's about, lets say 100 times more complex than the '3D ALCHEMY' block as show above. Not only SLA's but LOM's and Fusion Sintering and extrusion was also roughly around then to. 3D printing has been around for yonks...just saying folks it ain't nothin' new at all - it's just the machines have become simplified and thus are available at price points for design and make studio's to have their own basic machine.
It's cool and very handy to knock up a rough prototype gizmo overnight 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@geoffers, Nice. What's the pad arrangement on the end to support the tip ?
@Tim Heeney, It's amazing how SLA has fallen in price.
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@AndAnotherThing.., It's a slightly radiussed, adjustable/removable bit of MDF to clamp the tip so the ski doesn't move when scraping/waxing.
Also a removable bracket in the middle to stop flexing whilst scraping.
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You know it makes sense.
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@geoffers, 
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