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Hi all,
I’ve serviced my skis and my sons a number of times, with no issues - and have been pleased with the performance.
But - have just skied a day on my QST 99s and they were almost unskiable on piste, and not great off it!
They felt grabby, and wouldn’t track straight with the ski pivoting and snatching from side to side - which felt like it was coming from both/either tip and tail.
All I can think is that I haven’t achieved an effective/sharp 88 degree edge angle under foot because I perhaps haven’t trimmed the sidewall back enough and therefore the tip/tail are catching.
And if that’s not the issue, what the heck else could I have done?
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Hanging burr?
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Ditto - hanging burr. Did you run a gummi stone along the base edge to remove the burr?
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Ditto - hanging burr. Did you run a gummi stone along the base edge to remove the burr?
Yikes - thinking back I don’t think I did de-burr along the base edge, though I did run the gummy really gently along the edge at 45 degrees - probably not enough to remove a burr from the side edge, but perhaps enough to make it even worse!!!
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Been there, done that, now always have a gummi in my ski backpack 'just in case'.
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There is a slim possibility that it is the snow! There is really weird hard pack today from just below Kaminstube in St Anton. The skis want grab and not release edges. I thought it was my edges and got them done. No change. Spoke to others in the Galzigbahn and they said the same thing.
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