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Could somebody recommend a good base cleaner and best way of using it?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Charliefoxtrot, petrol and a match.
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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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Depends why you want to clean the base. If it is for a ptex repair then you need wax remover (there's a citrus one available from various shops that doesn't smell too bad). Just spray it on and clean off with a rag.
If you are just wanting to wax your skis then apply hot wax and scrape it off before it cools, that cleans up the base. Then apply wax a second time and allow to cool before scrapping. There is no need to use wax remover before waxing.
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sah, 
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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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sah, yeh but . . . mine's more fun to watch . . . from a safe distance . . . spoilsport 
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Yes but now you are going to have to waste your expensive wax trying to get the bases properly nourished again.
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| moridinbg wrote: |
| I prefer to remove the old wax before putting new one, especially if the new one is different from the old. And waxing twice just to remove... |
Then leave old one on, since you do way more damage this way, then leaving old wax there and putting new one over.
There's few other things to consider... most waxes (even xc waxes, which last longer) normally last on ski for 30-40km, then they are gone. Considering with alpine, snow is (most of time) more aggressive, and speed is higher, your "old" wax is gone long before your skis hit wax table.
Second thing is, wax mixing. Yes sure it's not perfect, and when I was still on World cup, we had skis for cold snow, and we had skis for warm snow, so skis were never waxed with waxes for opposite conditions. But that was World cup racing and not recreational skiing. With wax mixing you surely get slower skis, but I can bet anything you want, you don't get fastest wax combo on your skis anyway So does it really matter if skis are a little bit, and I really mean very very little bit, slower then they would be? Nowadays I use one single wax (Swix CH7 for alpine and Swix CH8 for xc), even though I still have huge supply of HF waxes and powders, and considering few of my best friends are WC techs for Swix, I could still get these things in unlimited amounts, but it's just not worth it. I might be fraction slower, but I did more then enough ski/wax testing, waxing 10 layers of waxes and powders on single ski etc. through my life, to bother with all this again.
And one more thing, with wax removers you get rid of ALL wax in ptex. This means, your skis are like new, which means you need some 15-20 wax cycles before you even put ski on snow. If mixing waxes is really that big of a deal for you, then you should really avoid putting skis without wax in ptex to snow
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It's for a ptex repair. So thanks for the advice. I usually let a pro do it and I'm always happy but I now have a new board so the old one is going to get used as a testing platform.
I do like Masque,'s idea that would be the most fun
primoz, great advice, lots of waxing needed after it has been cleaned and repaired.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Charliefoxtrot, made the mistake of tossing a snapped board into an oildrum burner I was using to get rid of a load of old offcuts I'd been accumulating from building work . . . neighbors thought the whole yard was on fire 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I can imagine there was a hell of a lot of thick black smoke
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