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cleaning ski bases
Dear All,
At home I have started using plain turps substitute to clean off the wax. I'm not damaging my base am I? Thanks Neil |
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cleaning ski bases
I'm not sure what turps substitute is,,,but the only thing to use to
clean your bases off, is citrus cleaner, which you should only be useing on your skate skis, at the end of the season, and classic skis, when your kick wax is too built up, or dirty. Any other cleaner will dry out the base and maybe leave a residue in the base itself, which will adversly affect the next time you wax. |
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cleaning ski bases
The rules of not putting cold onto warm waxs requires cleaning after each
trip. Getting it wrong at the start can require it be used during the trip. "kskier" wrote in message oups.com... I'm not sure what turps substitute is,,,but the only thing to use to clean your bases off, is citrus cleaner, which you should only be useing on your skate skis, at the end of the season, and classic skis, when your kick wax is too built up, or dirty. Any other cleaner will dry out the base and maybe leave a residue in the base itself, which will adversly affect the next time you wax. |
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cleaning ski bases
On Feb 11, 8:40 am, "kskier" wrote:
I'm not sure what turps substitute is,,,but the only thing to use to clean your bases off, is citrus cleaner, which you should only be useing on your skate skis, at the end of the season, and classic skis, when your kick wax is too built up, or dirty. Any other cleaner will dry out the base and maybe leave a residue in the base itself, which will adversly affect the next time you wax. Unless you are going to have them stoneground or steel-scraped, I'd say to never use any cleaner on the skate skis, or on the classic skis' glide zones (front and back---sorry if I'm patronizing, but I'd hate for you to mess up (slow down) your skis temporarily!). Use it on the grip zone of classic skis, then sand a bit and apply base wax/klister before wax-of-the-day. But I seldom do that except to prepare for a race, or when switching in either direction between hardwax and klister. A bit of scraping will usually get enough old grip wax off (often unnecessary) before applying the day's wax for recreational skiing. I agree with using citrus cleaner. Stuff for working on old furniture seems to work very well for me, rather than paying Swix etc. a premium. Clean those glide zones using very soft wax and a quick scrape before it completely `unmelts', as described many times here. Best, Peter |
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cleaning ski bases
On Feb 11, 4:40 am, "kskier" wrote:
I'm not sure what turps substitute is,,,but the only thing to use to clean your bases off, is citrus cleaner, which you should only be useing on your skate skis, at the end of the season, and classic skis, when your kick wax is too built up, or dirty. Any other cleaner will dry out the base and maybe leave a residue in the base itself, which will adversly affect the next time you wax. I would never use any solvent on skate skis and glide zone of striding skis - there's no reason to. Warm scraping with a soft parifin wax is better and has none of the potential negatives of solvents For kick zones, I've been using citris cleaner like others hve said. |
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cleaning ski bases
I was told by someone very knowledgeable working with ski bases that
citrus cleaners leave a thin film, while some of the ski brand ones don't. "Camilo" wrote: On Feb 11, 4:40 am, "kskier" wrote: I'm not sure what turps substitute is,,,but the only thing to use to clean your bases off, is citrus cleaner, which you should only be useing on your skate skis, at the end of the season, and classic skis, when your kick wax is too built up, or dirty. Any other cleaner will dry out the base and maybe leave a residue in the base itself, which will adversly affect the next time you wax. I would never use any solvent on skate skis and glide zone of striding skis - there's no reason to. Warm scraping with a soft parifin wax is better and has none of the potential negatives of solvents For kick zones, I've been using citris cleaner like others hve said. |
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