Patent ID: 8794642

Claim:
A method of fabricating a runner for mounting on the underside of a snowmobile ski, comprising: stamp cutting a shaped workpiece from a planar sheet of metal having a predetermined hardness, a generally uniform thickness, and upper and lower faces to provide a flat stamped blank having a longitudinally extending central base and laterally opposite side edge portions on laterally opposite sides of said base; said stamp cutting step including cutting said laterally opposite side edge portions with curvilinear forward and rearward edge portions extending forwardly and rearwardly, respectively, of an intermediate edge portion; said stamp cutting step further including cutting a slot in each of said intermediate edge portions; said stamp cutting step including cutting a U-shaped notch in said base to partially separate a mounting tab portion from the base along the notch, and bending said mounting tab portion out of the plane of the base; folding the laterally edge portion in opposite directions out of the plane of said base to confronting positions on the underside of said base.