The utterly shameless extroverted show off your tuning set up PICTURE thread!!! - Page 4

Those girls are wearing boots????

If you have Technica feet, just TRY and stuff them into a Lange boot. . .

Nice.

////wishes he had Lange boot posters for his shop

How about a couple of hot italian babed Tecnica posters!

If you have 'em, I want 'em!

Mike

ok, here it is in all its glory. We built this bench 20+ years ago when we bought our first home. We've taken it with us every time we've moved, decided that was easier than building another one.









the bikes have sort of been pushed to the side so we could keep our son's car in the garage while he is away at school. I might just leave it outside and put a couch and TV in there

We're only renting the place we're in now. When our lease is up we'll find a house to buy now that we know the lay of the land around here. Hopefully that will be the last time we move this bench!

I've been meaning to post my latest addition to my tuning shop for quite a while....

Awesome Yooper!!! I really like the sticker in the upper right corner.
I can't really tell what the selections are..... I'll need to know the selection before I come over to fit my intuitions!

Do you have it fixed so that it actually does give change for a nickle?

Oh by the way.... Brohemia was sick yesterday!!

Right now you can choose from PBR, Busch Light or Pepsi.

Two files, the coarser one is not here; I left it in my other home. A coarse and fine stone. A gummi stone for use on garage sale finds.


Edge guides, I prefer a fixed angle. 87 for the WCs 88 for the Volants, Having trouble deciding for the sgs.


An assortment of waxes, one of my scrapers (the one I could find), a nylon brush. If I were chasing FIS points I would have more and different brushes, but for my needs a nylon brush after scraping is good enough.


Rubber bands to hold the brakes out of the way.


Ski vise



and last but not least my iron

As you can see, I prefer the new-fangled modern electric iron to the old-fashioned ones that have to be warmed on the woodstove. The proper setting is at the notch between Ray and Silk for most waxes. Note if you are a little sloppy and don't really care much about hanging burs you can scratch your iron.

Wow....you got the no-mar padded one with the 18kt gold detailing!! My SO has been wanting me to get one of those vises for a while....but I'll stick with Swix for now

Ditto! (but god help me; I'm not taking down the Lange posters!)

PS: I skied 9 seasons on Banshee x9s and lost my toenails each and every season. But I don't hold that against the Lange Girls (maybe if I meet one, though, I can get her to rub my feet to make up for all my past suffering ).

I'll be posting my newly found wax room setup after some much needed cleaning and moving of some stuff...

After I finished building my hotbox in May, and after my hotbox presentation at school, I decided to turn my basement into a tuning room after being kicked out of several other rooms.

 

This is all that I've got so far, I'm still awaiting bevels and diamond stones. Any advice for bevels and stones?

 

 

One month's progress...

 

The Bench...

 

 

 

Some bindings...

 

 

 

Box of ski straps and ski cocaine, painters and packaging tape for labeling, #3 Philips and 1/4" Flat screwdrivers, hex tools, scissors, oldschool impact driver, spare tip guards, a ruler, and handy dandy sandpaper.

 

 

 

Fibretext pads, 8 sets of Marker Plate risers, some spare Marker Piston Plates, base hydrocarbon wax, fluoro powder to use as an overlay or to mix with hydrocarbons to make low/high fluoro waxes, cork, brass, nylon, and horsehair brushes, fibretexting block.

 

 

 

Spare Marker toe and heel screws

 

 

 

Vises and binding mount blocks

 

 

 

Some of the skis...

 

 

 

And, last but not least, the hotbox!

 

Wow, nice setup.  I mean your bench is OK, but oh boy is that a lot of hardware you have sitting around.  The amount of money you have invested in race bindings and plates alone is pretty staggering.  I bet you spend lots of time in that basement.  Awesome. 

Yea, its no where near finished though. I'm waiting on files, bevel guides, stones, ptex, and more wax. I feel lucky that all I need for waxes is the 4 base Swix CH waxes, which reduces clutter a ton.

I posted the following on another thread a while ago, and folks asked for some pictures. Here's the description from the other posting, followed by the pics.

 

We converted an oversized {1.5 cars, and deep} attached garage into a tuning room. All finished with rough pine. One wall has a closet designed to store infrequently used skis and poles, and next to it 5 shelves that hold 4 big clear storage tubs each {from Staples}, with storage for ski bags underneath. One shelf is open to hold the kids' tuning boxes, and those of friends, when they're home. Another closet with lots of shelving for my non-ski hardware, is on the other side of the shelving. The flooring in the closets and under the shelves is Dry-Tec, a modular plastic mat, which is great for moisture. We also have it in an area where we typically leave skis to air dry when they come off the hill, which is next to the hardware closet, near one of two doors.

 

The opposite wall has a very big {2.5' X 8'} built in bench, with a hot box built under it. That bench is coated with white epoxy high-gloss boat paint, which cleans up easily. It has slots recessed into the top for vises, so that the ski sits over the bench, and wax for the most part drips on the bench.The ends of the bench have a 1" raised rail to gather wax scrapings, and there's a 10" by 4" slot that drops into a garbage can. Raised along the wall are hardware bins {which are removable} which hold brushes, Fiberlene, scrapers, tape, scrubbies, etc. This bench is used just for waxing. Also drying racks to hold 4 pairs of skis for curing after waxing, before scraping. Above the bench is a commercial sized bathroom ventilator to take out the fumes. My electrician was a college employee who moonlights on the side, and he suggested it for the purpose. It pulls a ton of air. It's all boxed in for a finished look. Outlets are against the wall, and in the ceiling for irons. The bench is deep enough to keep irons out of the way, along with wax, etc. There's about four feet of unused wall space for skis to the right of the bench.

 

The far wall has a Holmenkoll folding bench, permanently set up for tuning. Wall bins there hold that equipment. No waxing on that bench. Keeps the area very easy to clean. Almost instant with a shop vac. There is a lot of wall space on either side of that bench....perhaps six feet on either side.

 

The floor is painted, and will be repainted with an non-skid epoxy polymer this summer. It has a drain in the middle. The floor area near the benches is covered with a dense rubber flooring, designed for use in weight rooms. Very easy on the feet. We have plenty of wall space for skis to lean skis against.  We have enough open floor space to accommodate two other tuning benches, with vises on both sides, if needed. We've had six people working at once in there, while two others were on spin bikes over the past few weeks.  

 

The tuning room has a couch, a small fridge along the front wall {note, not in the pics}, and we use ipod's and speakers for music. Many laughs about various racers' playlists! No demand for a TV, yet. We are adding a spin bike. I removed and framed the garage door, finished it inside and out and installed a regular door and window. Easy access,and nice for fresh air when the weather is right. The room has it's own heat source {Rinnai propane}. We can use the room to dry a ton of wet clothing, too, with folding racks and a rod that runs the width of the room along the ceiling, away from the benches.

 

If I had to do it over again, I'd only make two changes. We're very pleased with the rest. I would lower the height of the big bench. It's fine for me, but a bit high for my daughter and some of the high school and college age women. The guys love it, so perhaps I'll build a removable platform for the shorter tuners to stand on. I'd also probably pay more attention {or less} to outlets. People crack up, as I wasn't sure where I'd need them, so I went way overboard, including in the ceiling. There are over 20 outlets in the room. I could have planned it better. The room has four big banks of fluorescent lights. We had planned to add more direct lighting, but the lighting seems fine. I planned on a lot of storage space for tools, wax, fiberlene, tape, spares, etc. and we use it all. The bin storage system works well for that. What seemed like a huge amount of wall space for skis has turned out to be perfect. In the summer we have three roof boxes stored in there, and if we come up with bikes, it becomes the bike room.

 

We have no fumes, or tuning smells in the house, at all, which is nice. When we built this room, and sacrificed a garage in ski country, some thought we were nuts. It gets constant use, though. I'm not sure how we'd work things without it, as crazy as that sounds. A lot of time is spent there over the past few years.  

 

Here are the pics:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow, what a room! 

Sweeeet! 

I once told Mule I wanted to be reincarnated as one of his kids.  The last time I tuned skis with him (our college days), the floor of a motel room was fine.  Two chairs were great, and two sawhorses was total luxury.  Of course, really good tuning hadn't been invented then and one could race on anything.

So, when does the base grinder arrive?  I'd add a fridge, 50 " TV, sound system, and a wall of skiing movies.

I was about to reply to Newfy that the one constantin our tuning is beer. Beer in those days, better beer today {and fewer beers!}. There is a small fridge normally in there, and the music is almost always blasting {I have to turn it down}. Amazing what an ipod and one of those Bose speaker deals pumps out! No TV, no video in there. Also about to be added for the winter is a spin bike as soon as we score one on Craigslist. Three way split between dad and the kids. That room gets as much use as any other in the house.

Nice wax rooms. One day I'll clean up my office/wax room and take a few decent shots. Nothing to compare, but this is the utterly shameless thread.

 

Now will you guys stop posting so I can get some work (sorry, four letter word) done!

 

MR

Ive seen some nice setups in this thread but I think Muleski wins....he can run a business out of that place....I am very impressed.  Thats like an F1 version of ski tuning room, clean, everything has its place no clutter, neatly deocrated, lots of room, well lit...its all there.

Muleski: where did you get that Sugarloaf nature valley flag/poster? I want to add one to my collection  

 

I think it's actually a torn GS panel from US Nationals. The sleeve is ripped. Somebody sent it to one of the kids after they tuned at our place. Since the pics were taken there's a big DH panel from the Beaver Creek WC hanging in there as well; a friend who used the tuning room for a week this spring sent that to us as well. A lot of the cool stuff that was in there is in college dorm rooms these days.

ahh nice.  

 

Those Nordicas look awfully familiar...

Yep, RTTT. That pair in that far corner, I think, is a twin to your pair. Actually a lot of bears are using skis that spent some time on those benches. I think I count nine pairs out there. Nordica's been great in every respect. Nice job on your hot box, by the way. Looks great.

yea, mine have served me well so far. I'm making the switch next year from yolkl :). and thanks, your setup still kills mine though.

btw, how does kate like her volkls? When I saw her on them in january she was absolutely murdering the course.

So, switching to all Nordica? Nice. The Volkls worked well for K once she got dialed in to her new boots {Lange}. She'd been on Rossi for 5 years, so it was a change, but a good one. Very pleased with the GS ski in particular.  Volkl was great for her to work with. And I hope that "murdering the course" was a good thing! Have a good summer.