hammer
Active member
If I put the blue wax on the skis a few weeks ago do I need to "change it out" for a different color now or does it matter? If I should, what is the procedure for doing so?
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DIY Waxing
- Thread starter jimmywilson69
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RootDKJ
New member
Drip new wax over it, iron, scrape, brush, beer.
drjeff
Well-known member
Blue wax (or any other "arctic" temperature wax for that matter) is about the only kind of wax that I really found the need to do a hot scrape when I waxed with temp specific wax, to get it out of the base, especially if there was a decent amount of wax visibly left (a shiny base) and the temps warmed up. That cold temp wax is relatively speaking a real hard wax and doesn't have nearly as much water repellancy (read as better glide) in warmer temps.
To get it out of there via a hot scrape, well use either some warmer weather wax, or even some plain old parafin wax, iron it into the base and then quickly scrape the excess off, re-iron(but don't add any more wax) and then scrape again - repeat this for 3 or 4 cycles until a very small amount of wax is all that can be scraped, and you've just removed/displaced the vast majority of the old wax from your base. Then feel free to add whatever temp wax you'll need/want for your next time out on the hill
