 Poster: A snowHead
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I know there are several posts throughout the forum on this sort of subject but nothing seemed to be quite the same issue as me from what I could find, so for the first time I thought I'd start a post.
I own 2011 Neversummer SL, mine in particular has the white base, I'm due to go away with a bunch of my mates in a few weeks, one of them offering a favour said he'd give my board a wax at the same time as he did his ski's, he's been skiing for over a decade and has his own set up in his garage so I thought I was in safe hands, he rang me up a few nights ago to go pick my board up, I did, he looked a bit sheepish as soon as I turned up, he had waxed my base in his graphite ski wax, it now looks like it has been jabbed a million times with a pencil, there are black graphite dots and streaks in the base all over,  He was apologetic and to be fair he was doing it as a favour so I couldn't really hold it against him.
I took it home last night gave it a couple of hot scrapes with some uncoloured all season wax to try and draw out some of the graphite, it did pull / draw out some of the graphite but on the whole it still looks a bit naff,  I know some people would tell me to leave it, "no-one looks at the base" "doesn't matter what it looks like its how it rides" and I can see where they're coming from, but I like keeping my stuff looking relativity neat. I'm a bit OCD like that and was always pretty proud of the fact that my board looked nearly new after two years and about 6 weeks of riding.
I'm kinda hoping that when I get off in a few weeks after a several days boarding the graphite will get pulled / drawn out with general use and a couple more wax jobs, but just thought I'd ask if anyone else had had this happen with graphite wax in particular.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You should probably take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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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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Wax/ scrape, brass brush, if that doesn't work just keep sliding till It's gone.
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It will take at least 20 days riding to get rid of all traces of the graphite in my experience.
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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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If it hasn't done any damage then don't worry about it, you just got a free wax 
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Yeah brass brush would be my first thought, extreme solution would be a base grind, I'd never do that though.
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| snowrider wrote: |
| It will take at least 20 days riding to get rid of all traces of the graphite in my experience. |
Sounds like a good excuse for riding it loads. 
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Tristan3520, graphite additive in wax does discolour anything it touches but it will come out in time. The p-tex bases on Never Summer boards, like the majority of ski/board bases these days are manufacturered with a graphite content so they don't actually need a graphite wax. And your board's not going to glide well if you've hot scraped clean it a few times & not rewaxed it before you go.
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Thanks for the advice spyderjon, I have re-waxed my board after the hot scrapes so hopefully all should be ok, I will admit I didn't realise never-summer base, and that of other snowboard brands for that matter, actually already contain a graphite content, I always thought it was only ski's with the plain black bottoms that contained graphite in their structure, you learn something new every day
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so i'll clock up as many miles as I can and see how it goes... I'll really must invest in a decent brass brush also as I've only got this poxy cheap thing that was thrown in with my iron. 
