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Cold hot wax and cold weather wax
 Poster: A snowHead
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OK, I've searched the forum and I still have a couple of questions:
I've just re-ironed the wax on my boards and I'm waiting for them to cool down before scraping. If I leave my beloved custom x outside tonight to get it really cold, does this:
1. Contract the pores in the base, sealing the wax inside; or
2. Make the wax too hard so when its scraped off it comes off in chunks pulling some of the abosrbed wax with it? or
3. In reality make not much difference at all, especially after a few runs

Also,
I'm going to Val D'Isere on the 12th for my first (Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing) holiday this season. Do I need a cold wax at -5 to -20 temperatures, or will my ebay universal wax be OK? Every trip I've been on (4), I've been 'blessed' with warm weather and I've outglided nearly everyone on the flats; but I've got no experience with near Arctic conditions.
Some people seem to iron a hot wax on and then rub a cold wax on the top - but why would you leave a layer of wax on the board? Would it not rub off in a patchy way leaving different areas of stickyness on the board/ski? Neither of my boards will ever touch a dry-slope which I think when most people seem to do this.

My custom x is brand new (so I'm less than keen to leave it outside) and my other board is a about 10 years old if this makes any difference to waxing/scraping.

Thank you!!
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might be helpful:

http://www.toko.ch/en/downloads.html
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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?

I normally just stick all-temperature wax on. If it's exceptionally cold (below -20°) and there's fresh snow I might stick cold wax on if my skis were due to be serviced, but otherwise just stick with an all purpose wax.
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Tenpoundpomme wrote:
I've just re-ironed the wax on my boards and I'm waiting for them to cool down before scraping.

What's all this about scraping...?
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

Thanks, for the answers.
But what about scraping the wax off, should the base be warm, room temperature or cold? The toko website says you should do it warm, but that's only for cleaning the base. Different websites seem to say different things Puzzled
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Tenpoundpomme, Scrape them at room temperature, the wax will just chip off if you do it in the cold.
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I'd scrape with the wax still a bit warm.
a) You want to leave some wax behind and not pull it off in chunks.
b) It'll make life easier.

I have a load of cold temperature (hard) wax that I iron on. The intention is to rub on a softer wax as required - but this rarely happens. It's much better than trying to do it the other way round!
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!

Thank you!!
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