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Hot Box temp?
When I started into this business two seasons ago, I went with waxless
skis - wanted to keep things simple. Well, a week ago I bought my first pair of wax needy skate skis. Not nearly as involved as I thought - though the potential for craziness is there (I compete also in the shooting sports; I thought that shooters were compulsive but XC skiers are a whole 'nother breed). In any case, I have a question. Having read two booklets (Swix and Nat Brown)and a couple of downloads(Waxing 101,etc.) and a bunch of posts,I derive three basics: keep the iron moving, don't let it smoke and you can't wax too much. In reference to the third, I've read that hot boxing is kind and gentle and very effective. I thought that I'd wack together a hot box when it occurred to me that I have a sauna in the basement. Hmmmm. How hot does hot box have to be and how long does one leave the skis in it? Pete |
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Check out Zach Caldwell's Engineered Tuning website
www.engineeredtuning.com Scroll down to his hot box link for a discussion of temps. |
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Jim: Thanks for the link. It was exactly what I wanted to know. Basic
saturation = 120 min. @ 55 deg. C. The sauna can do that, no problem. Thanks again, Pete. |
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