Glue residue on skis

[DPS]

I have some skin adhesive residue stuck to my skis. Are there any solvents I could use to remove it without damaging the ski?

[Dr_Crash]

Use a plastic scraper. If you can't make it work like that, you can use a base cleaner. Citrus-based ones are the least aggressive. After using a cleaner, make sure to wax your skis again. Depending on how anal you are and how much time you have, you can go anywhere from a simple wax coat to a few hot scrapes / feeding coats of base wax (a storage one like Swix BP 88 or your favorite Cascade weather wax - Swix red in my case) to reimpregnate the bases, since the cleaner, doing its job, will have stripped the wax off.

 

Also (just in case) never use a base cleaner to clean the bases except when you need to remove the wax, for example before making a repair (wax will not help bonding, and needs to be removed). For all other cleaning needs, use hot scraping.

 

drC