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really dippy question - wax
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just bought my first skis - do i need to get them waxed, or are they ready waxed?
I did warn you it was dippy Embarassed - but genuine honest
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bitoffluff, I bought skis from Kiwi1 last year and his advice was to ski on them for a few days to get rid of the factory wax before getting them waxed again. As he is supplier I took his advice. Cool snowHead
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They will have some minimal factory wax on them but most techs advise at least 1 hot wax cycle on new skis. The truly obsessed will do up to 5 wax and scrape cycles to get the base structure full of wax but IMO this is overkill.
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bitoffluff, best to get them waxed, they should be cleaned with a hot wax to clean them out and get rid of the bits left behind from the factory, then a base preperation wax followed by a wax with a standard wax, i'm sure a fellow snowHead can recommend someone in Scotland to do them for you, the edges won't need doing. geepee, has agood point that you could ski for a few days and get them done out in the resort, but getting them done before hand saves you going round the resort finding someone who will do you a wax overnight.
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cool, thanks for the advice - anyone know anyone in inverness rolling eyes Shocked Laughing
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New ski's have a very thin layer of liquid wax wiped on by machine in the factory. I consider it more for protection than actual skiing

My new Nomads I got a month ago, got a dewax, 4 Base prep waxes and scrapes, 4 all temp waxes and scrapes, then the edges checked and tuned. I still think they could do with more wax

You want as much wax IN the ski as possible to protect teh base and keep it water repellant

My experiance of shop machine waxes are again they just wipe some on in a machine (it ski's off as quickly)

There is no substitution for HOT waxing and scrape/polish by hand. Its dead easy to learn and very satisfying to do. Start by visiting www.skituning.com and looking at Jon's guides
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