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Using a household clothes iron to iron on ski wax.....
Ok, it's almost time to put skis away but I am hoping someone will
invite me to ski with them at some out of the way snowy paradise.......in lieu of that I will wax my new skate skis to put them away for next year. Can I use a regular iron on my skis? |
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You can use a regular iron as long as it doesn't have holes in the bottom
The wax will get into the inside of the iron and smoke like hel............ Best to use a old iron with out holes or buy a real waxing iron. Have a great summer Sean "nordvind" wrote in message oups.com... Ok, it's almost time to put skis away but I am hoping someone will invite me to ski with them at some out of the way snowy paradise.......in lieu of that I will wax my new skate skis to put them away for next year. Can I use a regular iron on my skis? |
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Sean wrote: You can use a regular iron as long as it doesn't have holes in the bottom The wax will get into the inside of the iron and smoke like hel............ Best to use a old iron with out holes or buy a real waxing iron. Have a great summer Sean In the day, I used to use a clothes iron with steam holes - but with tin foil over it. Looked ugly, but worked .... in a fashion. I certainly don't recommend it, but I imagine it would work fine for just putting on some storage wax - just don't smoke the wax and quit as soon as you've melted on an even layer. |
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On 26 Mar 2006 19:39:49 -0800, "Camilo" wrote:
Sean wrote: You can use a regular iron as long as it doesn't have holes in the bottom The wax will get into the inside of the iron and smoke like hel............ Best to use a old iron with out holes or buy a real waxing iron. Have a great summer Sean In the day, I used to use a clothes iron with steam holes - but with tin foil over it. Looked ugly, but worked .... in a fashion. I certainly don't recommend it, but I imagine it would work fine for just putting on some storage wax - just don't smoke the wax and quit as soon as you've melted on an even layer. Yeah, I did it similarly for a while. But in practice the waxed smoked a bit anyway -- the irons temperature varied a lot as its heating element turned off and on. I think this works OK for softer waxes such as for storage or warm weather. For putting on a hard, cold wax it is not good. JFT **************************** Remove "remove" to reply Visit http://www.jt10000.com **************************** |
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JFT,
Check out the SWIX Econo package. http://www.reliableracing.com/detail...&category=2200 This comes with the iron and 5 cakes of CH Wax. This is a great value. You can make an old clothes iron work - the worst part is the constantly fluctuating heat. With the waxing irons you set the heat and the iron maintains that temp setting. The clothes irons and cheaper variants have wild temperature swings. This makes it a pain to wax but also increases the chance that you will over heat your ski base. /john |
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On 27 Mar 2006 04:16:25 -0800, "jgs" wrote:
JFT, Check out the SWIX Econo package. http://www.reliableracing.com/detail...&category=2200 Thanks. I have a proper wax iron and was telling the OP about my experience years ago with a clothes iron. The clothes irons and cheaper variants have wild temperature swings. This makes it a pain to wax but also increases the chance that you will over heat your ski base. Right. That's why I said a clothes iron doesn't work well for cold waxes but can for softwaxes. JT **************************** Remove "remove" to reply Visit http://www.jt10000.com **************************** |
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I have to pipe in saying that I agree totally with these guys - if you
can afford it, even the cheapest waxing iron is better than any clothes iron. Good skis are worth it. My very old experience was more or less to tell what you can get by with in a pinch, far from optimal. I started waxing skis in the 70s, basically with no instruction or guidance and that's the era I'm talking about. Buy a waxing iron if you can. If you can afford a cut or two above the cheapest, its like any tool you use a lot - you're always glad you bought as good of one as you can afford. The nice features and quality are worth it every time you use it. If its something you only use in a blue moon, you can get by with less and do fine. |
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nordvind wrote:
Ok, it's almost time to put skis away but I am hoping someone will invite me to ski with them at some out of the way snowy paradise.......in lieu of that I will wax my new skate skis to put them away for next year. Can I use a regular iron on my skis? You can do it but the heat is unstable. 1) Get a Swix iron, it is stable, has no holes and you just set the dial to the CH # of the wax you use! 2)Most ski store are having 50% off sales so you can get one cheap! gr |
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Mange takk!!! Lots of good advice, I am off to look for 50 percent off
waxing irons..... |
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For what it's worth, I bought the Swix Econo iron a couple of years ago
and it died on me after only about a season. Could have been just a fluke, but could also have been "you get what you pay for". I bought a better one for this season and so far it's been great. The other thing I had noticed about the Swix Econo iron was that its base was not very massive, so I imagine the temperature fluctuated a bit more. Jim nordvind wrote: Mange takk!!! Lots of good advice, I am off to look for 50 percent off waxing irons..... |
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