Which head is this?
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waxhead
wannabe backflipper
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- gold coast
Looks like a cool head, i mean thats the brand cool head
I´ve googled Cool Head, but I can't find much information on it. A thread on this forum suggests that the company don´t exist anymore, which makes sense given that my superjet is quite old. I also think it has some similarities with ADA, but I can´t find any ADA heads that are identical. Keep in mind, that the head in question might be quite old. I have tried reversed picture search on google, but can not find anyone that matches this one.
Big Kahuna
Administrator
- Location
- Tuscaloosa, AL
Cool Head, Wamiltons, Greater Yamaha and a few others were all built by same company........
Big Kahuna
Administrator
- Location
- Tuscaloosa, AL
Wamilton would have been engraved in the top. Same with Greater Yamaha head.
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
I've also seen that split head design from Riva but it was an o-ring head, no gaskets. If you open it up and find the domes look like a cooling fin design it could have been made by Riva for someone else. I had to change one of those heads on a friend's ski because the dome cracked. He was losing compression through the crack and it turned out that you can't get replacement domes for that style of head anymore so it has been sitting on the bench collecting dust for the last 5 years or so. As far as I can recall, those finned domes weren't very strong and this was a common problem. There wasn't enough meat in the dome structure and probably can't resist the compression for long before they crack. When I say for long I mean unlike an ADA dome where they're solid and meant to last for life against such a scenario. He did pretty well with his considering the head was put on 15 or so years ago but then again, he only gets out on the water about 1-5 times a year and on a couple occasions a year or two would pass by and he never got out once. My ADA head goes back about at least that far too but never had any issues with it to this day and until the last few years I was out dozens of times a year every year.
That was an extremely popular head in 90’s/2000’s. Sold under at least 10-12 different brands/names. Protec and Blowsion domes fit it. ADA won’t. Interested in selling or trading for something?
Protec and Blowsion have them in stock for the most part. protecs are same as race style back in the day. Blowsions have gone a little simpler with less cutbacks in water area. Both same squish pattern.
I’m still rocking one Only problem is domes are hard to come by. last I checked you have to get them through Protec because Tom doesn’t build them that often.
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