Scraping bases yes or no?

[CabbyArrant]

So I'm leaving on a ski trip this next week and I just ironed on a thick coat of wax. I was thinking that maybe I should wait to scrape it until I get to where I'm going and my bases might be a little more protected while traveling. Any comment

 

[The.Fish]

So I'm leaving on a ski trip this next week and I just ironed on a thick coat of wax. I was thinking that maybe I should wait to scrape it until I get to where I'm going and my bases might be a little more protected while traveling. Any comment

As long as you scrape it before you ski it doesn't really matter. In the summer I put wax on my ski and just leave there and scrape it off the day before the opening day.

 

[SKIU4EA]

yes, i would wait and scrape them. it won't make much of a difference, but it will protect the bases during the trip

 

[addie.]

If the wax is a colder wax (green/blue), I'd scrape it now because it might dry out your bases, but if it's warmer, it'll be good for your bases and I'd leave it on (red/yellow), if it's all-weather wax, your call.

 

[Deepskier]

Listen to the box not the fucking color ^

 

[tdollo]

Listen to the box not the fucking color ^

The type of wax is determined by colour in most cases

 

[shin-bang]

If the wax is a colder wax (green/blue), I'd scrape it now because it might dry out your bases, but if it's warmer, it'll be good for your bases and I'd leave it on (red/yellow), if it's all-weather wax, your call.

Curious about your logic here.

Wax hydrates your base. Wax is wax. How does leaving cold temp wax on "dry it out" whereas the warm temp won't? In my mind they would be the same

not trying to be a jack, just wondering.

 

[brett_fisher]

If the wax is a colder wax (green/blue), I'd scrape it now because it might dry out your bases, but if it's warmer, it'll be good for your bases and I'd leave it on (red/yellow), if it's all-weather wax, your call.

lol you do know color has nothing to do with wax .

 

[robotdna]

Curious about your logic here.

Wax hydrates your base. Wax is wax. How does leaving cold temp wax on "dry it out" whereas the warm temp won't? In my mind they would be the same

not trying to be a jack, just wondering.

Cold weather waxes are very, very hard. If you leave them in long enough (i.e usually when they cool down from the iron temperature) they become practically impossible to effectively scrape off. Waxes aren't all about hydration. Warmer waxes have a softer texture, and slide more effectively in softer, moister snow. Colder waxes are harder, and slide better on the sharper, harder and colder snow. It can kind of be thought of as: if you have a big block of warm butter, and you slide a warm stick over it, it will glide over the surface. However, if you slide the warm butter over a piece of freezing sheet metal, it well catch and become grabby and not slide as well. The same can be said about the inverse. Two pieces of cold, smooth metal will slide against each other, but if you try to pull a cold metal sheet over a tub of butter, it won't slide as well. That's a really crude and not great analogy, but I hope it helps somewhat.

Because the colder temperature waxes are quite hard, they have less moisture in them. This is where the "drying out" can come from.

 

[CabbyArrant]

I use all temp wax but probably switching to warm temp after this trip(Midwest temps) The color of the wax is like a milky white, faintly tinted blue though

 

[250r]

when i raced i always waxed my skis without scraping before travel.

dont be lazy though and just ski it off without scraping. ive heard people argue that it will last longer that way, but the truth is that the friction of the snow will pull the wax out of your base's pores. so scrapping your skis will not only make them faster, but also make your wax last longer.