 Poster: A snowHead
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I’ve always used a plastic scraper to scrape the wax off my skis and boards, but I recently bought a metal one and it was so much easier to use. Am I going to damage my equipment with this metal one?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Metal for p-tex. Plastic for wax. Make sure your plastic scraper has a god sharp edge on it.
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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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Thanks, did I do any damage to my skis by scraping them with the metal scraper?
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Probably not, depends how hard you scraped!
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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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Shouldn't be any problem as long as you're careful. I've never really bothered much with the plastic ones, but a degree of caution is required, especially on very wide skis or snowboards, to ensure you don't let the corner dig in and take a gouge out of the base.
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Metal for me, file/grind the corner on square scraper if you risk that corner damaging a wider base, such that it cannot pick up and cut any base.
It only needs a small radius to completely remove that risk.
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Metal scrapers are generally designed for initial dressing of p-tex repairs and as such are designed to be sharp enough to cut through plastic.
Plastic scrapers are designed for scraping off excess wax and are designed to NOT be sharp enough to cut through plastic.
Sure I'd guess you can use a metal scraper to scrape wax - but you'd need to be extra careful as that plastic-cutting metal will quite happily scrape away your base material in addition to the excess wax. Too much pressure and the metal will tend to flex which could be a route to a concave base and needing a base grind.
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@ski3, …ah good point…must remember to round the corners of my metal scraper….
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| valais2 wrote: |
| @ski3, …ah good point…must remember to round the corners of my metal scraper…. |
From other disciplines really, woodworking with something like a jack plane to level a surface that's wider than the blade to avoid "tramlines" in the surface. Also in metal scraping to make things like flat surface plates by scraping with a metal chisel specifically ground to do this. Old hand finish methods not often seen currently.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Do yourself, and especially your skis favor, and stay away from them with metal scraper. (Sharp) plastic scraper is way to go when it's about wax scraping.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Metal will take off the structure. It’s the price of a coffee for a plastic scraper and 20 seconds to freshen the edge up. As long as a plastic scraper is sharp it will work fine.
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