 Poster: A snowHead
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Is it worth paying the extra £5 for Snow & Rock to hand wax rather than machine wax my skis? Does it make a difference?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yes
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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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That's nice and easy then. Thanks 
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But will they actually use an iron or just do the machine wax & charge you an extra fiver 
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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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finestgreen, no.
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Yes and no.
It's is worth an extra fiver for hand waxing, but I've just serviced by hand three pairs of skis on the balcony in less than an hour.
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jbob has it right! My 10yo next week has spent the afternoon learning how to hand service her skis. Quick and easy once you have learnt how from Spyderjon!
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finestgreen, I have a friend who who refers to the gazebo effect, I haven't corrected him as I find it so funny.
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Not sure what S&R do but if you get yours skis waxed in resort "cheaply" you often get effectively a cold wax - so the machine puts a layer of wax on your skis - next to useless. I suspect that is what a "machine wax" is with S&R. Wax should nourish the skis' bases and you only get that with heat - to really "soak in" if you like. Surface wax gets scraped off very quickly (unless you are in the Dolomites right now  ) and it's the stuff that is soaked in to your bases that makes the real difference. imo there is a lot of BS talked about ski servicing (and I did it for a short time as a job) but a good wax is worth the extra few quid every time. Although as mentioned above - it isn't that difficult. The only difficult part of servicing skis involves edge angles and base bevel (assuming no huge gauges).
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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finestgreen,
having seen one of those machines working whilst Schladming last year, I wouldn't let a decent pair of skis near them. As spyderjon, says go with a hand wax every time, and if don't trust them to do it go somewhere else 
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