 Poster: A snowHead
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After the lat run of the season over in fernie, we left our skis and boards to have a final fettle while we went for q beer. Picked them up with a thick covering of storage wax : the ski tech assured us that we'd probably want to remove it before skiing next, as it "wouldn't be very nice" - or words to that effect anyway!
So, what's the best way - drop them in the ski shop (appaprently Ellis Brigham quoted £15!) either in the UK or when we get to Val d'Isere, get out an old credit card and scrape it off, or use an old iron? It would be good if we could sort themn before leaving for our holiday as we should arrive in time to grab a couple of hors on the slopes on arrival day, all being well
Cheers
NBT
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Unless there's loads of it, I'd just ski it off. It should be gone after your first couple of runs.
I usually get mine serviced after a trip and get them to leave wax on for storage, never been able to feel the change as the wax came off to be honest.
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if you can see wax on the surface or can scrape it off, then it would definitely benefit from a bit of attention.
if by a storage wax you mean that it has been properly hot waxed but has not been scraped, then get a scraper (either a ski specific one or another plastic scraper that won't gouge lines into your board) and scrape away until you cannot get any more off. wax on the surface will definitely slow you down.
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| Tony Lane wrote: |
| ... wax on the surface will definitely slow you down. |
Maybe a good thing for the first couple of runs of the season 
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Just bumping this up in case like anyone else can privede a definitive answer?
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Actually it was covered in another thread. But, the answer is it depends how much wax is on them. Depending on the type of snow it'll come off quite quick as a rule if it just residual from an ordinary waxing but by storage people often mean something a bit more, in that case the non-serrated variety of ice-scrapers for car windows will do the trick nicely. The "full monty" would be to strip (geddit? ) the wax with a special purpose solvent and re-wax, a big deal for glide waxing on cross country skis I believe.
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to be honets I don;t know how much wax is on them, I just picked them up and put them away, but I have a feeling there's a fair bit.
Looks like I'm going to be spending an evening in the garage with the car window scraper then....
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If it's for next week I'd not worry, one run on some cannoned snow should take it straight off.
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nbt, parafin will remove wax, otherwise a de-waxer, but storage wax shouldn't be too much of a problem, normally it's just an coating over the edges to stop them rusting and would be scraped off after your first ski.
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Mine we're waxed at the end of last season and I've been told I can just ski it off. If I run my hands along the underside of my skis they feel very nice and smooth anyway. I'll find out on Saturday
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Had forgotten about this
we just skiied on them, noticed no difference at all and when we looked all the storage was had been scrubbed off
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For the future, you could scrape it off with a plastic/metal scraper, then run a semi-stiff brush from tip to tail of the skis. After that polish the bottoms with a scotchbrite or similar pad to remove any extra bits from the brushing/scraping.
This is probably way overkill for most of us though; I would have just skied it off as well 
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You know it makes sense.
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FAQ
so u have clean wax to work with, then either just scrape the rest off and use a brush to work in some structure or use an old (non steam) iron and get rid of the rest of the wax and put a nice fresh layer on and iron in, cool and scrape, then lob on a bit of swix f4 or similar for a lovely friction free glide 
