How often to Hot Wax?

On Feb 25, 5:50*pm, lal_truckee wrote:
Harry Weiner wrote:

I spit on you stoopid story! *The wax is rubbed off on the first run.
The P-tex doesn't hold the surface wax. *Turtle Wax. *Turtle Wax.
You need penetrating wax, not candle wax.

Horvath old buddy, you're right and wrong (and probably all points
between, but let's focus on extremities.)

Any wax on the surface of the ski base IS "rubbed off on the first run."
Right you are.

However. P-tex DOES hold ski wax - P-tex is porous. Even the original
P-tex was porous - sintered P-tex is a sponge that sucks up melted wax
ironed on, but you've got to iron it in good.
So you're wrong about P-tex not holding wax.

Now to just touch on the in-between:
Those shop waxers that have a roller dipping into a wax melt then
rolling up to deposit a layer of wax on your skis are useless - the wax
is surface wax which you correctly point out is "rubbed off on the first
run." And that's what most shops sell you when you go in for a "wax"
job. Do it yourself, or find an old-fashioned shop, or forget the whole
thing and save the money for beer.

Hot wax roller is a device to transfer a relatively small amount from
a pool of molten wax to the surface of the ski, and a relatively large
amount from the pocket of the skier to the register of the ski shop.

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:50:50 -0800, lal_truckee
wrote this crap:

Harry Weiner wrote:

I spit on you stoopid story! The wax is rubbed off on the first run.
The P-tex doesn't hold the surface wax. Turtle Wax. Turtle Wax.
You need penetrating wax, not candle wax.

Horvath old buddy, you're right and wrong (and probably all points
between, but let's focus on extremities.)

Any wax on the surface of the ski base IS "rubbed off on the first run."
Right you are.

However. P-tex DOES hold ski wax - P-tex is porous. Even the original
P-tex was porous - sintered P-tex is a sponge that sucks up melted wax
ironed on, but you've got to iron it in good.
So you're wrong about P-tex not holding wax.

Now to just touch on the in-between:
Those shop waxers that have a roller dipping into a wax melt then
rolling up to deposit a layer of wax on your skis are useless - the wax
is surface wax which you correctly point out is "rubbed off on the first
run." And that's what most shops sell you when you go in for a "wax"
job. Do it yourself, or find an old-fashioned shop, or forget the whole
thing and save the money for beer.


You actually made my whole point. You need penetrating wax. Not
candle wax. That's why I use Turtle Wax.

If you ski only a few times a month, you are wasting time and money by
waxing every day with expensive wax.




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On Feb 25, 8:29*pm, Harry wrote:
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:17:47 -0800 (PST), Jay Pique
wrote this crap:



This is the most unbelievable crap I've seen here in ages. *People are
actually agreeing with Hovarth? *I absolutely insist on a waxing at
least weekly, and more if I'm really hitting it hard. *There's
absolutely nothing like a fresh waxing to really get you moving - and
if it doesn't improve your performance SIGNIFICANTLY then you must be
doing it wrong. *Wax, people, can work wonders for skiers of all ages.

I spit on you stoopid story! *The wax is rubbed off on the first run.
The P-tex doesn't hold the surface wax. *Turtle Wax. *Turtle Wax.
You need penetrating wax, not candle wax.

The wax isn't for the ski, moron, it's for the snow.

JP

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:21:57 -0800 (PST), Jay Pique
wrote this crap:



I spit on you stoopid story! *The wax is rubbed off on the first run.
The P-tex doesn't hold the surface wax. *Turtle Wax. *Turtle Wax.
You need penetrating wax, not candle wax.

The wax isn't for the ski, moron, it's for the snow.

JP


Backwards you are, man good my.





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