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Removing Glue from Skins: How??
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I've seen a Black Diamond video online. Is glue removal really as simple/effective as it looks using a hot iron and brown paper? Or should I buy a heated scraper?

And, as a supplementary question, are the Colltex stick on glue strips okay as a re-glue fix?
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yip, brown paper and an iron works well... in my experience you don't need to take all the old glue off : just remove what you can and then use scrapper to take off the dirt / bits of heather / pine needles. you can buy solvent that will remove the glue - but likely overkill. colltex transfer tape works well and isn't too messy.

if you are somewhere like Chamonix then paying a shop 20-30 euros to re-glue skins in money well spent.
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Haggis_Trap said
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yip, brown paper and an iron works well...

Or a hot-air (paint stripper) gun and scraper is another option
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are the Colltex stick on glue strips okay as a re-glue fix

I've used the G3 iron-on glue-renew strips which work a treat

youtube.com/v/NGY1KCUC1fI
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One of my least favourite jobs when I worked in a ski shop, Like Haggis Trap said, if a shop can do it for you........
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Or fit a blade to your soldering iron and run it on 'hot':

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Thanks everybody Smile - much obliged.

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then use scraper to take off the dirt/bits of heather/pine needles...
...and grass! There's more of that stuff than glue after about 4 years skinning on the original glue, with a bit of topping up from a tube of glue in a couple of places. Time to bite the bullet....

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if you are somewhere like Chamonix then paying a shop 20-30 euros to re-glue skins in money well spent
Unfortunately I'm not so l'll have to have a go at least this once. ( I've got Mrs MA's skins to do as well.... wink). They really need doing fairly soon - the skins were getting like applying post it notes at Glenshee last weekend....Laughing
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I've found that for my BD ascention skins, the iron and brown paper sufficiently reconditions the glue that I have not needed to add more. Specifically it seems to:

1) Remove most of the pine needles
2) Levels out the glue
3) drives off water from the glue which seems to restore the glue tackiness

I have a set of skins that are 7 years old which I have treated in this way once a year and never needed to re-glue.
That said they are not in as bad a condition as those that altis has posted a pic of!

Ben
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@BenA, have you seen the state of the slopes in Warrington?
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@mountainaddict, When I did a pair last year, ventilation was the main issue with fumes coming off the old glue as you heat it. I used a heat gun and scraper and it did the job ok.

I used the coltex iron on stuff which was very good but have a small gap between the glue line and edge of the backing strip Embarassed Don't trust youtube...!
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