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Is the wax that is scraped off your skis when you hot wax them, still usable if it is neatly collected?
Its not that i cant afford more, but you scrape off the majority of the wax, so im wondering if its reusable.
Please share your opinions.
Thank You.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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immax01, i would make two points,
1 i would not use it as it will be contaminated with all sorts, especially if you have tuned edges and not cleared the bench properly [metal edge filings in your base will slow you down and could cause damage]
2 sounds like you could be putting on a bit much, try rubbing the block of wax up and down the ski [heat the base a bit first] a few times then iron in what is there, you can always apply a few more drips if required, there used to be a thing called a waxing fleece available to fit on the iron, this helped with wax usage and smooth aplication [spyderjon will be around soon to say if they are still available, and if he thinks they are any good]
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I agree with CEM - no point in using too much wax.
A poor man's waxing fleece is a J cloth, or any other thin cloth for that matter.
Trying wrapping one around your iron. It'll become wax-impregnated, and can be saved for the next waxing.
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Never seen spyderjon use a cloth like that when he's waxed my skis - I'll be interested to see his response here.
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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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Toko used (maybe still do) sell wax impregnated fleeces, the idea is one sheet per ski.
For the OP - sounds like you're using too much wax in the first place. If your shavings are 100% clean, by all means use them. Mine are never that clean after edging, etc.
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immax01, welcome to snowHeads 
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Immac is a depilatory wax - is this a coincidence?  Big hairless skis?
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Nice one  pam w,
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CEM's right re the scrapings are likely to become contaminated & that crayoning on the wax first helps not only to protect the base from an accidentally over hot iron but also helps over avoid over application.
Waxing fleece's are still available & they come with all the irons I sell . I only use them as a bit of added protection for the base if I'm applying a wax that requires a very high iron temperature. For general use I find waxing fleece's way too messy & all too easy to get contaminated.
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| immax01 wrote: |
Is the wax that is scraped off your skis when you hot wax them, still usable if it is neatly collected?
Its not that i cant afford more, but you scrape off the majority of the wax, so im wondering if its reusable.
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It's reusable, just not for skis. With about 3 quarts' worth in a slow cooker I melted it, poured it through a paint sieve into tall soft-sided plastic pitchers, let it settle out and cool, cut off the still-filthy part with a knife and wound up with about 1.75 quarts worth total of bicycle chain wax. The soft sided pitchers had the added advantage of separating the summer chain wax (stiff and tending to stick to the walls of the pitcher) from the winter chain wax (lighter fractions not likely to flake off the chain and block it from shifting in the cold, these fractions made a last-to-gel cone in the middle of the pitcher). Put the appropriate brick into the cleaned slow cooker, drop the bike chain in - perfect every time.
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I disagree that contamination of wax is a problem. Wax goes onto a clean ski, if you've made sure that it's wiped down of any ptex or edge shavings before you iron.
Waxing with a cloth around the iron dispenses clean wax, and no contaminants are picked up from the ski. If any minor contaminants were picked up it wouldn't matter - the ski would run just as well, and the contaminants would not enter the ski.
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David Goldsmith, but the wax you pick up off the bench could quite easily be contaminated
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You'd have to be very careless to get the iron in contact with the bench. The whole point of waxing with a cloth-wrapped iron is that wax doesn't go on the bench, and there's no scrapings/waste.
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You know it makes sense.
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David Goldsmith, i think we are at crossed meanings
if you have excess wax on the bench which was to be recovered [as the original question] then the wax has been in contact with the bench which could have contaminents on it form edge sharpening etc..... the use of a wax fleece eliminates the excessive use of wax and therefor eliminates the problem in the first place, as there will be no excess wax to recover
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Fwiw, most of the contamination captured in the sieve was human hair and fabric fibers, probably initially airborne. I can take snaps next time if anyone's really interested, it's about as disgusting as bath drain clogs. Imagine a 235F drain clog the size of your fist and you'll have it.
No contamination? Heh.
Wax fleece?
Sounds like you lot don't do much hot scrape cleaning: the wax comes off in large curls thinner than paper, often single curls, that are easily caught in the hand and dropped into a bin.
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Poster: A snowHead
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comprex, no problem with hot scrape base cleaning, in fact i would say it is the best way of cleaning the base, just the recovery of wax for use again on the skis which i don't like 
i prefer to crayon the wax on as spyderjon says to prevent waste and mess
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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How much do you pay for your wax?
The stuff I get from spyderjon is so cheap I really couldn't be arsed picking it up again.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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MM quite right the cost is trivial, if it didn't have random toxic funk in it I'd use it to light the chimenea coals.
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immax01, If money is an issue there's plenty of free wax in your ears. Maybe you could collect that in the off-season.
You tight tight tight thing you. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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If you don't put a dust sheet down - and wax skis in your wife's utility room - you may find that the slate floor has a lovely wax finish afterwards and your wife suggests you don't have to wax her skis again...
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| stoatsbrother wrote: |
| ... your wife's utility room ... |
The controls of a washing machine are not gender specific.
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David Goldsmith, no - but I cunningly sited it in a place where I am unable to stand up!
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CEM, & parlor,
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quart =2pints.... quarter of a gallon
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Perfectly true, but the size of the gallon varies in English or American speak  .
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