wax on skin glue

[dylan_taylor]

I was in a hurry to use my new skis and I didn't do a good enough job scraping the wax. Now there is some on my new skins-creating spots of zero stickyness. Any tricks from removing wax from glue?

[Tony_Bentley]

 

Get a metal scraper and clip your skin reverse on your ski and start scraping. You will end up scraping some of the skin glue off too but there should be enough left for it not to be a problem. If it is a problem then just get some more skin glue.

 

It is a good idea to keep a kit that includes a flie, scotch bright pad, rub on wax, p-tex candle, regular wax and scraper. That way you can just ask a shop to use their iron and you have the rest to take care of business. Too much wax is often worse than not enough wax.

[dylan_taylor]

Thank you!

Will give that a shot...

[Kat_Roslyn]

I would put a paper bag on your skins and iron them where the wax spots are then rerapply glue if needed.

[colt45]

That way you can just ask a shop to use their iron

I bought an iron at Fred Meyer for $9.99, which I use on the "low" setting.

[dylan_taylor]

Thanks for tips. I have the iron, but the moral of the story is that I need a bigger scraper. I've never had fat skis before and my trusty ski scraper isn't wide enough, so I end up doing a bad job scraping.

 

Which has lower melting temp - glue or wax? If I do the brown bag trick how do I keep from stripping glue off as well?

[tvashtarkatena]

If you do the paper trick, strip it off before the glue/wax re-solidifies or some of the paper will stick to your skins.

 

You will probably loose some glue in the process. Have some extra on hand.

 

Go with a colder temperature wax. You'll have less of this kind of problem.