This keeps the glue from sticking to pieces. Step 6: Tighten clamps over the most extensive part of separation. For most top-sheet repairs, 3 clamps will suffice. Step 7: Let the epoxy cure a. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Email info neversummer. Snowboard Tuning and Maintenance Tips November 24, snowboarding. How to Detune Snowboard Edges. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.
You also want a nice flat surface to wax on to. The more acute angles will give you more bite, which is handy on hard-pack and is often used for racing.
You should only sharpen the concave section of the edge. To see where to sharpen more precisely, place your board right way up on a flat surface, the area you want to sharpen is between where the board touches the ground at the front and back assuming you have a regular camber board. The file in your edge sharpener is probably one-directional. There should be an arrow on the side of the file that indicates the direction it should go.
Arrange the file so that it is pointing in the right direction for you to stroke from nose to tail on your first edge — ideally most actions you take when waxing and edging go in one direction, from the nose to the tail of the board.
Now apply pressure with the file on the side edge and drag it along the length of the edge. Do this several times until your black marker pen line has gone. To test the sharpness of the edge, scrape your fingernail over it — your nail will peel if your edge is sharp. Take your edge rubber, if you have one, and give it a few scrubs along each edge. This will shine up your edges nicely, remove any rust, even out any imperfections made by your file and improve performance very slightly.
Take your brush and give it 4 or 5 hard strokes in each area to remove any excess wax and dirt. This will create a bit of dust, so give your base a quick wipe over with a scotch pad afterwards. Tuning Tip: You always want to finish off on the Side edge - This will remove any sharp edges from poking out and ensure that any sharp spots face down. Once you have finished smoothing the edges, the feeling you're looking for is a s harp and s lippery edge. If your edges feel sharp and slippery, you are then ready for the next step, Waxing.
Pay Yohann a visit at Underground Tuning. Keep that on the down low Riding Buttering Jumping Jibbing. Rehab Series. Board Tuning. Snowboard Tutorial Membership. SA Hoodie. And what about additives like fluorocarbon and graphite? In wet conditions, high-fluoro waxes will increase your boards ability to break surface tension with the snow, while graphite is especially helpful in dirty snow.
After pulling a new board out of the plastic, the ideal case scenario is to wax it and scrape it repeatedly, starting with a soft, warm-temp wax to begin penetrating the pores, progressively moving toward a harder, cold-temp wax. Then waxing and scraping, again and again. As Kinsey puts it, as long as youre doing it right, You cant wax a board too much. And in fact, the more times a board with a sintered base is waxed, the harder, faster, and more durable its base becomes.
So wax away this winter. The basic principles of edges are simple: a sharp one will grip and hold you in a turn, a dull one will avoid hang-ups on rails, and detuned contact points will help you negate hooking and thus scorping harshly. While thats all accurate, theres more to it. Bevel is the critical element to understand with edging. If we assume an unadulterated edge is zero degrees on the base and 90 degrees on the side, bevel is any amount of filing that takes these degrees above zero and below 90, respectively.
Traditionally, whatever the degree of bevel added to the bottom edge is matched on the side edge, maintaining a right anglethe edgehold factor increasing with each degree of bevel added, up to three, typically. Its a matter of acute or obtuse angles.
More outward side bevel combined with less upward base bevel and you get a more acute, sharper edge, which can be beneficial in racing or railing on ice. But when it comes to tuning a snowboard for freestyle purposes, theres a different option.
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