How to wax skis thread..

1. If you did a good job of scraping the first time you shouldn't need to scrape again

2. You spelled towel wrong

3. Don't use a clothes iron, get something with a solid base

4. Scotchbrite pad is a little unnecessary

But other than that, it's good to have a video finally showing people how to do it
 
yea ^ iv been waxing sence i was like 9 i never needed a vid, melt the wax, spread with a iron let cool and either scrape or reheat till its in the base
 
mmk this is how i do a basic hand wax

1. Let the skis get warm in your house first, it makes the wax stick better.

2. Get some Citrus based base cleaner (healthier for environ.) and a well ventalated work place.

3. Take an old T-shirt/rag and put some base cleaner on it, wipe down the bases of your skis, and let that dry.

4. use a scraper at a 45 degree angle working parallel to your edges and go through a couple times on each ski.

5. have an iron, put the wax on the iron, and make a steady drip down each ski.

6. Use the iron to make the wax even on the skis, and dont keep it in one place too long because ull burn your edges which will fuck your skis up.

7. After its mostly even and you have every spot waxed, let that cool

8. Scrape off the excess wax 45 degrees one solid stroke, use your edges to guide your scraper.

9. After youve scraped all the excess wax, get a peice of cork (buy it at your shop) and go down the skis from top to bottom to set the rivets going top to bottom.

10. Finish your skis with a peice of steel wool getting any excess wax or part that you dont like

11. Finished! (should take from 30 minutes - 1 hour)
 
You shouldn't use a metal scraper to remove the wax, it ruins the base texture. instead use a freshly sharpened plexi scraper (a plastic one).

Also using a brilo pad against the texture on the base fucks the skis up, I use a copper brush running along the ski from tip to tail to retain the ski texture
 
actually, the pad doesnt f up your texture. if your using it when your suppose to and correctly, it can beniefit your texture a lot. you are suppose to use that for prepping your skis, and not side to side as shown in the video.
 
Is P-Tex necessary? Heres how I wax my skis.

1. Brush bases with Nylon Brush

2. Spray Base Cleaner, wipe dry with towel.

3. Apply wax

4. Work the wax in (iron of course)

5. Next morning, scrape a little (or none at all) (I scrape like this -----|----- , not ------/------ , is that bad?)
 
uh bro you wanna get as much wax off as you possibly can. youd be supirsed at how many times you can run a scraper along your sksi and still get some wax off. personally i have brushes and shit from my racing skis. so i can tune pretty well. but no i dont think holding your scraper verticle will do that much harm.
 
1.Citrus base cleaner. put it on special swix or toko paper made for bases.

2.brush skis with a nilon based brush or something(i have a special swix one)

3. melt wax and let it drip onto your bases.

4. Take an iron(i recomend swix or toko that make irons specially desgined for skis, so that you can adjust the heat depending on what wax you use, again depending on what temp is outsude.)

5. iron your skis in ONE smooth motion.

leave your skis in a hot place over night, so that the wax sttles in

The next morning:

6. take a plexi scraper and scrape that shit off.

7. take a horse hair brush and brush your skis in the driving dirction.(if that made sense)

et voila
 
Does anyone else use a wire brush to open the pores before you wax? And you have to be careful with a metal scraper, you can take off the base if you aren't.
 
A few things:

You shouldn't need to scrape your skis before starting.

Hold the candle in your hand you pussy. That was a pretty bad base repair, get it birning nice and hot (blue), and keep a metal scraper/plate handy it it gets out of control.

You're using both scrapers at the wrong angle. I'm surprised that base repair held when you scraped like that. You're pulling wax and p-tex off the ski that way. Angle it the opposite way and you'll push wax into the ski while scraping it off, and will be less likely to rip out parts. Better yet, just use epoxy, it holds better and performance disadvantage is minimal.

Go slower on your passes with your iron. One or two one-minute passes is good. You WON'T damage your base goign this slowly.

For whoever said not to use a clothes iron, that's bullshit, they're fine to use. Preferably an older one with a nice thick sole, and even better with no steam holes. We used one with steam holes in my shop most of last year and our boss was a former Swix WC tuner. At the shop I'm at now, our boss told us to buy an old clothes iron if we wanted a backup.

And to everyone saying to use base cleaners/wax removers before waxing, those are pretty bad for your base - you should just use them to clean up areas of base getting repaired. Hot-scrape your skis if you want to clean them.
 
That's what I was smeaning just there, if that was confusing. You should scape like this:

__________/______________-------> SCRAPE THIS DIRECTION

Then you're pushing wax into the base as you scrape, not ripping it out.
 
not true, u should scrape about 3 times, more wax off= faster sticks

i use a clothes iron and it works fine

and scotchbrite is deffinitly needed, it puts little grooves in the wax and mackes ur sticks alot faster
 
Ptex is only needed for base REPAIR, it has nothing to do with waxing but simpilar, just light it and drip it into the places u need repaired then use metal scraper to get it noice
 
Either way, this video have brought up a lot of good points in here.

Thanks
 
it depends on where you are for if you need to scrape or not, if your where the snow is good then you may not need to, but if you live in the east your gunna need to scrape that base nice and clean. my best advice is go and make friends with the guys at your repair shop if they know what they are doing, they will be bale to give you the best advice and may even show you how
 
yeah your definately not suposed to use a brush or pad unless u go tip to tail or its fucks up the base structure

i cant believe u used vice grips to hold ur p tex candle

other than that and teh stuff other people posted good job
 
Um, wow, This is realllly old. I use scratchbrite sponges,...that rough green side to remove the excess.
 
i use a machine to get the knicks and dirt and what not outa the ski and edge.

and arent you suppose to move the iron in a circlaur motion (after putting the wax on) to rub it in if you just go in a straight line, it gets it hot and pushes it all to the tail. just my thoughts...
 
use a brass (or the like kinda of brush) before you wax and use noting more abrasive than a nylon after waxing.

Also, it is better to do a hot scrape, and not use base cleaner...that sh*t is not the best for your bases.

With base repairs, epoxy first to fill in most of the whole and then put on ptex and it will come out much better and hold much better then just epoxy or just ptex. Also, the steadier the flow of ptex, the better it will come out. when dripping slowly like it was in the video, it is likely to have air bubbles which cause the ptex to be ripped out of the base very soo after you start skiing.

When waxing, and letting dry, watch out. if you leave the wax on over night, it can stain the bases and instead of whatever color your bases are (unless they are black) they'll be the color of the wax, or atleast have a shade of the color of the wax over the existing colors.

fiberline (spelling?) paper is amazing for polishing bases post-waxing.

 
I forgot to add, the best way to remove ptex is to use a razor blade. hold it vertically and rub back and forth. it'll come out smooth and it wont rip out.

and... dont use paper towels on your skis... the little particals can come off and work their way into your bases with the wax.
 
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