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Home made foil in aluminium.

Postby platslagarn » Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:10 am

I built my own foil. amazing how well it went. Dural aluminum I used. fun!
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Re: Home made foil in aluminium.

Postby mig27 » Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:29 am

Wow, looks amazing!

But could you ride a foil before you started to built this one?
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Re: Home made foil in aluminium.

Postby platslagarn » Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:40 am

No. First time
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Re: Home made foil in aluminium.

Postby mig27 » Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:46 am

platslagarn wrote:No. First time
Did you make the design yourself, or did you use an existing plan?
Well done learning to foil on your own build HF :thumb:
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Re: Home made foil in aluminium.

Postby platslagarn » Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:54 am

I borrowed two foils of my friends. and did something similar ... :)
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Re: Home made foil in aluminium.

Postby mig27 » Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:43 pm

platslagarn wrote:I borrowed two foils of my friends. and did something similar ... :)
Very good!
I friend of mine tried to make one from scratch.
When he learned to ride on a production foil, he finally was able to ride it.
But learning with it would have been a huge pain.

You made reference to something which did already work! :thumb:
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Re: Home made foil in aluminium.

Postby Starsky » Mon Apr 18, 2016 1:51 pm

That is bad ass!

Durability will not be an issue!
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Re: Home made foil in aluminium.

Postby Makossa » Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:06 pm

How heavy is your construction? Looks really rad!
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Re: Home made foil in aluminium.

Postby platslagarn » Mon Apr 18, 2016 4:46 pm

3,35 kilo. 2mm alu. Dural aluminium
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Re: Home made foil in aluminium.

Postby Starsky » Mon Apr 18, 2016 5:22 pm

That's lighter than my commercial foil....and plenty of others. Goes a long way to answering my question from months ago about the relevance or rather irrelevance of minor dings to free ride performance.

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