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How often do you guys tune up your equipment?

How often do you tune up your skiis?

  • After every day of skiing

    Votes: 5 9.1%
  • Every 2-5 days

    Votes: 19 34.5%
  • Every 6-10 days

    Votes: 8 14.5%
  • Every 11-20 days

    Votes: 8 14.5%
  • 21-30 days

    Votes: 3 5.5%
  • >30

    Votes: 12 21.8%

  • Total voters
    55

Nick

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Sorry if I missed it earlier. I haven't done mine in some time but I think I'm springing for new skiis over the summer anyway.
 

gmcunni

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picked up a wax kit off the now defunct tramdock earlier this season so i've been waxing occationally.
 

RootDKJ

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There's a lot of factors that go into if I tune. I'd say on average, every 2-3 days on the snow, unless I'm on a trip somewhere, then I just worry about it once I get back home.
 

Nick

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That's often. I used to do mine once a season, basically, wether I skid 5 or 25 days.

I really noticed my edges were getting poor at the AZ summit last weekend, that traverse over to brackett basin was awfully dicey.
 

roark

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Touch up edges nearly every day of use (stones). Wax every 2-3x. Base grind/full tune once a season (or less).
 

Morwax

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Waxing a pair of skis and or a snowboard almost every day although I alternate 4 pairs of skis depending on conditions or who im with. I touch up edges every other use or if I feel burrs etc...its much easier to maintain an edge than to bring one back from rusty butter knife land.
 

Hawkshot99

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You're not working at the shop anymore?

I am still at a shop. When I started for the company I was at another store that does shop work. The store they moved me to, does not have a work shop as the mtn. does all of that stuff on there own.
 

billski

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The way I ski, I'll put wax on after 3-5 days on the slopes. Edges, depends how they look, I'll do a diamond file on them. Ptex, depends what I hit. Minor scrapes don't get it. I'm more into preserving the longevity of the bases than trying to eck out every last tenth of a second.
Now that it's spring, the red comes out.
 

jack97

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almost never.....

I only keep one ski sharp and waxed for groomed hardpack conditions. Hardly took them out in the past two seasons.
 
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