It would have been a bit of a thread drift so I started another one. From the roto or no roto thread :
The key to making scraping easier is not to over-wax in the first place. Crayon the wax and use Fiberlene sheets to absorb excess wax immediately after waxng. One sheet does one PAIR of skis. https://www.amazon.com/Swix-Fiberle...pID=41bIidYC5PL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
So this box will do 100 pair of skis.
It also helps prevent overheating the bases. Leaves an extremely even thin coat of wax that is much easier to scrape.
OK. Gave it a wing. Super easy. So much so I'm sure I'm doing it wrong.
I brushed the bases and wiped them down to make sure they're clean(ish).
Crayoned on the wax covering the entire ski base (I didn't heat the bar and crayon - just crayoned)
Ran the iron across the base to melt the wax
Ran the iron again with fiberlene to wick the wax away
Let cure
Scrape and brush like normal - except there was hardly any wax to scrape.
The part in bold is where I think I went wrong. The method I used is the same when you're using the Ray's Way WaxWhizard. I made sure to be quick with the iron as there wasn't a lot of wax on the base, but the base was completely covered.
Just crayoning without heating the bar seems awfully risky to the base.
Could someone please break it down Barney Style for me.
Thanks,
Ken
OK. So I did four pairs of skis with my version of the posts above. Cold crayoned (for maximum coverage), hot crayoned making sure the drips from the iron landed on the base, ironed in wax, used fiberlene to soak up wax. After the cure time, easy peasy scrape and brush.
Without a doubt, this uses less wax than just dripping and just as noticeably, the clean up was easier since there is less mess.
Improvements for this process for "me" is to get the fiberlene sheets. I just bought a new roll of fiberlene so I have a bit. I did dabble with doubling up the sheets and all and ended up with leaving it as one ply still on the roll, but unrolling about 16" or 18". I then start with the iron in a corner next to the rolled up part, go a little, then the opposite corner, then the middle, then repeat one row down. Seems to work well.
Only have about another 120' to go before my next purchase
