Rust Oxidation on Edges?

Should I use steel wool to clean rust oxidation from the edges of the ski?

TIA,
D

wrote:
Should I use steel wool to clean rust oxidation from the edges of the ski?

TIA,
D

No, just ski on them, but hereafter,
keep them waxed, especially if you will
store them for more than a week without
use.

VtSkier

wrote:
Should I use steel wool to clean rust oxidation from the edges of the ski?

Use a Gummi stone (ask in a ski shop.) Rub it lightly along the edges;
followup with a heavy layer of regular canning paraffin wax hot ironed
in, slobbering wax over the edge sides. Or just ski the rust off, then wax.

VtSkier wrote:

No, just ski on them, but hereafter,
keep them waxed, especially if you will
store them for more than a week without
use.


More than a week without use??? What kind of blasphemous thought is
that???

Jeff wrote:
VtSkier wrote:

No, just ski on them, but hereafter,
keep them waxed, especially if you will
store them for more than a week without
use.



More than a week without use??? What kind of blasphemous thought is
that???

We have summers around here.

VtSkier wrote:
Jeff wrote:
VtSkier wrote:

No, just ski on them, but hereafter,
keep them waxed, especially if you will
store them for more than a week without
use.



More than a week without use??? What kind of blasphemous thought is
that???

We have summers around here.

So? never heard of dendex? or snowdomes?


--
Chris *:-)

Downhill Good, Uphill BAD!

www.suffolkvikings.org.uk

MoonMan wrote:
VtSkier wrote:
Jeff wrote:
VtSkier wrote:

No, just ski on them, but hereafter,
keep them waxed, especially if you will
store them for more than a week without
use.



More than a week without use??? What kind of blasphemous thought
is
that???

We have summers around here.

So? never heard of dendex? or snowdomes?


Or Mount Hood? Or glaciers? Or Chile?

Jeff wrote:
MoonMan wrote:

VtSkier wrote:

Jeff wrote:

VtSkier wrote:


No, just ski on them, but hereafter,
keep them waxed, especially if you will
store them for more than a week without
use.



More than a week without use??? What kind of blasphemous thought

is

that???


We have summers around here.

So? never heard of dendex? or snowdomes?



Or Mount Hood? Or glaciers? Or Chile?


Actually a Vermonter will tell you that we have
9 months of winter and three months of damn
poor sleddin'.

Alas, I might be able to afford a trip to Hood,
but still there will be several weeks between
it and the first snowfall around here. As for
dendex or snowdomes, you need civilisation
(not the British spelling) to support such a
thing. There are only slightly more than half
a million people in the whole state of Vermont
and a great many of them don't ski.

VtSkier wrote:
Actually a Vermonter will tell you that we have
9 months of winter and three months of damn
poor sleddin'.

I've been there and I believe you...

Alas, I might be able to afford a trip to Hood,
but still there will be several weeks between
it and the first snowfall around here. As for
dendex or snowdomes, you need civilisation
(not the British spelling) to support such a
thing. There are only slightly more than half
a million people in the whole state of Vermont
and a great many of them don't ski.

If Vermont's population distribution matches that of the United States,
then you've got roughly 34,000 children under 5 and 62,000 over 65. I
imagine some of them ski but I'll grant them leniency. What's the
others excuse? Vermont bills itself as America's terrain park....

BTW: I'd love to live there but my wife couldn't stand the cold. She's
an avid reader so I'm not sure what the problem is. Fortunately, she
can't stand Southern politics so I'm safe at my current latitude.
Fundamentalism seems to dissipate as you head north....

Jeff wrote:
VtSkier wrote:

Actually a Vermonter will tell you that we have
9 months of winter and three months of damn
poor sleddin'.


I've been there and I believe you...


Alas, I might be able to afford a trip to Hood,
but still there will be several weeks between
it and the first snowfall around here. As for
dendex or snowdomes, you need civilisation
(not the British spelling) to support such a
thing. There are only slightly more than half
a million people in the whole state of Vermont
and a great many of them don't ski.


If Vermont's population distribution matches that of the United States,
then you've got roughly 34,000 children under 5 and 62,000 over 65. I
imagine some of them ski but I'll grant them leniency. What's the
others excuse? Vermont bills itself as America's terrain park....

Yeah but... artificial ski hills, for warm weather
are EXPENSIVE. Oh and where did you see the statement
about Vt being America's terrain park?

Actually summer is quite nice around here. I wouldn't
want it any other way. For burly macho type stuff,
I ride a (street) motor cycle and for athletic type
stuff I ride a mountain bicycle (this isn't cross-
posted to rec.backcountry is it?).

BTW: I'd love to live there but my wife couldn't stand the cold. She's
an avid reader so I'm not sure what the problem is. Fortunately, she
can't stand Southern politics so I'm safe at my current latitude.
Fundamentalism seems to dissipate as you head north....

Tell you what, there is NO better way to enjoy a
good read than to curl up in a comfortable chair
beside a wood stove. It needs to be fairly cold
outside for this to work because regulation of a
wood stove is a hit-or-miss affair and if it's not
cold (below 35 degrees or so) the stove will drive
you out. Also, a view of snow on the ground and
trees is conducive to curling up and reading...
unless you are skier.

There are pockets of fundamentalism here and there
but as a whole you are right. Also, have you ever
noticed that very small political units that have
a relatively homogeneous population tend to be more
liberal politically, socially and religiously?

Witness the Netherlands. Vermont is like that too.
Interesting that we have a socialist representative,
a democrat senator and a former republican senator.

Our governor is a republican, but the democrat
majority in the legislature is large enough to over-
turn any veto he might throw at them.

VtSkier