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shop story
hey now,
Wrong wax on board, needed edges. dropped it off at a place I've trusted in the past. Next day pick up board and breakfast stuff. Hour later I'm about to bust out the door when something says 'brush your board first'. Well.. either these guys just had a bad day or they've got some new staff. First thing I noticed is I can see on the base where my bindings are mounted. Take a couple strokes with the brush and can tell right away there's still wax on the board: http://www.westnet.com/~darkstar/donek/wax_short.jpg Had to waste some more time with the scraper and brush to make it all right again. But these guys sure did slack - leaving the bindings on and thats not just a little bit of wax! Moral(s) of the story: always bring your scraper and a brush when you travel.. you never know what you'll get out of a shop its always better to just do it yourself! |
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Bummer.
That's one reason I always take off my bindings when I bring the board in. As you know, the binding screws tend to pull up the base a bit. If you take them off before hand it also let's the base relax at room temp by the time they tune. Funny thing is, I wax my own board now and rarely remember to loosen my binding screws before I start AND I never notice any effects. Maybe its because I'm hand scraping it myself I make sure I get it off all areas. ? Or, those jokers at the shop probably put your board on the belt sander to hit the edges and clean off the base...that's pretty standard, but if you're screws aren't loose AND you're taking off base material, you may notice the problem more (as different amounts of material are sanded/ground off under your bindings.) yuck. I end up still having to take my board in when the edges get too beat up for a hand file. You know, you can only do so much before you have to bring the base down to the level of your edges which have been ground down by rocks! ugh. |
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Funny thing is, I wax my own board now and rarely remember to loosen my
binding screws before I start AND I never notice any effects. Maybe its because I'm hand scraping it myself I make sure I get it off all areas. ? Could be a couple of reasons: 1) Some bindings create more "base suck" than others, and some boards are more prone to it than others. If you have a binding / board combination that is low on "base suck" than you would never have this problem to begin with. 2) If you wax in a manner that uses as little wax as possible, you're probably not pooling it up in the insert area anyway 3) Maybe you're not looking that closely. A little extra wax left on the insert area might not be detectable, either by board handling or visual inspection, unless you're riding in spring conditions. Slushy spring snow will eat up your wax job in a matter of a couple hours, and I've noticed that wax does tend to cake up on the insert areas, even more so than normal - probably melting and getting stuck there. In any case... I find that loosening or removing bindings makes for an easier time waxing - it's easier to get the wax to penetrate near the inserts and it's easier to crape it off evenly. |
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"Mike M. Miskulin" wrote yeah when I wax myself I have one of those fold up home depot work tables so the bindings always need to come off. Next time you'll be waxing yourself on the fold-up table, take the snowboard off. That way, you won't have to unscrew the bindings. |
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