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if you have base burn...
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

if you have base burn, does waxing cover it up or can you still see the bas eburn through the wax job?
Just interested...I'm sure I don't have it but I had some mild greying underfoot, which someone suggested was just the base being a bit dry. Waxing it seems to have restored everything to a nice black colour.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

I feel that the term 'base burn' is often missused. To me true base burn is what a plastic racer gets when the friction melts the base or what you get if your waxing iron is too hot. That type of damage has to be removed by a belt/stone grind.

The 'greying' that you have is just oxidisation on the base & is a sign of lack of wax. It starts underfoot (cause that's were the pressure's the greatest), beginning at the edges & then works across the base & then towards the tips'n'tails. It's often accompanied by slight fuzziness of the base. To rectify just brass bruss to clean out the structure grooves & then a few passes with a fiberpad to knock down the peaks & the fuzziness. Then hot wax, cool, scrape & brush. If you're ski bases haven't had a clean for a few waxings then hot scrape clean first. Don't use a wax remover as it dries the bases out even more.
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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?

spyderjon wrote:
To me true base burn is what a plastic racer gets when the friction melts the base...
and it stinks like crazy when you get to the end of the run.

Was definitely getting there on Sat when trying out my new boots at So'ton - which was incredibly sticky, and needed the skis switching feet after pretty much each run, even with really taking the foot off the gas for the bottom 20m . Even worse than the one time I tried Permasnow Shocked .

Grrrr!
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