On 1/25/2012 5:42 PM, runcyclexcski wrote:
On Jan 19, 7:46 pm, Jay wrote:
On Jan 17, 10:40 pm, wrote:

On 1/17/2012 6:46 AM, lolix wrote: See FluoroPolymeric Coating By Leonid Kuzmin
http://kuzmin.se/pgs/fp_drum_en.html

Sounds a little like NotWax a liquid teflon wipe.


Oh, no. Pseudoscience is back again.

Just order a roll of single-sided Teflon tape from McMaster and tape
it to the bottom of the skis if you want a teflon coating w/o waxing.


1.2 grams of wax being absorbed sounds like a lot to me! The base is
quite dense, formed from powdered p-tex melted (sintered) together, so
there is a very low percentage of open space to absorb wax (which is
good or else you have foam rubber and it will damage much more easily).
This 1.2 grams of wax can now leach out of the ski very slowly, causing
a wax layer a few molecule thick. The classic "dry base white look" is a
good indicator that the wax has left the working surface of the ski
and needs to be renewed. Most waxes seem to last quite a long time
before this happens.
gr