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I learned a trick years ago for waxing my skis. You heat up your iron, drape a sheet of doubled over paper kitchen towel on the hot plate and melt some wax onto the paper towel. You then run the iron plus paper up the ski base. Voila, a thin layer of wax, no fuss no muss.
Anyone got any thoughts on it as a method?
Also a question - Universal wax vs warm snow wax at the end of the season, is there much difference (I assume that either is better than no wax)
Mick
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I think toko did a 'wax mouse' that did something like that
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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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| penster wrote: |
I learned a trick years ago for waxing my skis. You heat up your iron, drape a sheet of doubled over paper kitchen towel on the hot plate and melt some wax onto the paper towel. You then run the iron plus paper up the ski base. Voila, a thin layer of wax, no fuss no muss.
Anyone got any thoughts on it as a method?
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Works fine for wax of the day so long as there's no lint. Of course, it's useless for hot-scraping, and might be quite costly for high fluoros.
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Also a question - Universal wax vs warm snow wax at the end of the season, is there much difference (I assume that either is better than no wax)
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There can be, especially if there's dirt, tree bits, other pollutants in the snow.
There's a bit of irony to this reader in the assumption, though:
Warm snow tends to grab at any unscraped and unbrushed wax left on the surface of the ski bases, no matter what the formulation.
The best gains are to be made by getting anything that didn't penetrate the bases off.
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comprex, 
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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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So the type of wax is not particularly important (for a recreational skier)? What is important is to have the bases waxed and waxed properly ie. scraped & brushed.
Mick
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penster, Experiment, I did and it was interesting.
spyderjon, I'll hold my wrist out for a slap 
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how warm is warm snow 
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shoogly, 0 degrees centegrade else its water !
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penster, I've said it many times: A properly scraped and brushed universal wax will in most cases outperform a conditions-specific wax that is slapped on regardless.
Odin, really, really strange things happen between 0C and 4C; it becomes an issue of heat and crystal shape not temperature.
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comprex,
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| daehwons wrote: |
| I think toko did a 'wax mouse' that did something like that |
Yeah they did. I bought one from S&R with the impregnated sheets. Waxing 187's meant you had to add white toko wax as an extra as there wasn't enough. I just brushed off excess then.
Last lot of sheets I bought must have been three years ago at S&R when I was hunting an Axe Plus Plate out. Not seen em since so just crayon and drip on instead.
Think swix do a sheet like kitchen roll you can buy tho.. Fibre Tex?
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