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I have a pair of very pretty white Salomon 'Origin Lime" skis. Stupidly I made the mistake of leaving them over the summer with the rubber tethers on that I use to stop them rubbing together when travelling. This has resulted in yellow marks on the skis. 
My husband has tried to remove the marks with a gentle abrasive cream they use in his garage to clean marks off cars but to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas what I could use to try & remove the marks without compromising the integrity of the material please?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Tip-ex? or bleach
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Bizzielizzie13, Welcome to  It's probable that some of the carbon black in the rubber has leached into the clear polymer of the topsheet . . . if so. it's there for good. I can't think of any way to bleach plastic and carbon black is a very stable product.
UV light? But that could destroy the topsheet. Look up 'the Piste Office', Jon may have a solution. http://www.jonsskituning.co.uk/
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I've had great success with a bit of good old Ajax bathroom scrub, but I already sounds as though you have tried similar. However, if the colour is actually in the plastic I doubt your chance of success.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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WTFU -they're tools not jewels
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put some stickers on them.
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Dot., +1 
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Bizzielizzie13, Treat them as badges of honur, skis will get scratched marked and beaten up such is life.
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Fattes13, They might just look like a giant pair of pregnancy test sticks 
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Cover them from tip to tail in the same rubber then youl have a nice pair of yellow skis
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Thanx to those of you who gave me good advice. Don't want stickers & know they are tools not jewels but am cross that it was my stupidity that scarred them not hard skiing therefore NOT unfortunately a badge of honour. Will just have to grin & bear it I guess .
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Skid markz
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Surely a snowHeads sticker would not look amiss?
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You know it makes sense.
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If they're white you won't find them when you lose them in powder. Be grateful for the black.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Bizzielizzie13, nobody but you will notice. Chill. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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why not put a couple of extra black marks and make it look like part of the design 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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they're not black marks, chaps, do keep up.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ansta, we've got black marks.
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James the Last, 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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But I could pretend that I meant to say black marks even knowing the marks are actually yellow as black, yellow and white is a good combination. But clearly I'd be found out... either way just pretend the marks are either part of the design or a new way of identifying that the ski's are yours, perhaps offer the suggestion of yellow (other colours can be used of course) marks to all those uni students on their ski security design projects..
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I take great pleasure and fun also from pretending to know people by sneaking a look at those little name stickers and then engaging in conversation (NB except when I neither look at the name stickers or the size and colour of said ski's and pick them up and walk away by mistake causing myself to be completely embarrassed and knackered from chasing the rest of the group around the mountain to try and catch them up.)
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Jeez . . . my Icelandics look like they've been attacked by hundreds of wee axe wielding Ice Elves and I think this will be the 6th year without being edged . . .
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I'd put some rubber disks on the skis over the next few months leading back towards the bindings in a random splashing pattern. Then wear a white one piece ski suit and with highlighter pen make a series of yellow stains down the inside of your legs. Other people will simply assume that you have a major incontinence problem and not jump to conclusions about your ski storage habits.
See, there is always a way out of these embarrassing situations.
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ansta1, Hi Fischer! Hi Dynastar! Hi Dot!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| James the Last wrote: |
| ansta1, Hi Fischer! Hi Dynastar! Hi Dot! |
Wouldn't be as funny as "ha tarquin, don't you remember me from <insert> location and see how long you can drag it out.
Almost as funny as blue jacking which you can no longer do. Ahhh those days!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Avalanche Poodle, very practical advice, stickers or incontinence.
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| James the Last wrote: |
| Hi Dot! |
Hi
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