What's First? PTex or Wax?

[skidmarks]

The sound of p-tex

My first pair of skis that I bought when I worked in the shop was a pair of K2 Public Enemys with white bases. They were the worst skis ever to try and learn to P-Tex with. My bases looked like crap with all of the carbon mixed into them.


I do enjoy the smell of P-Tex burning. But absolutly hate the feel of it dripping on you!:x:smash:

When did you get your PEs ?

Dripping P-Tex makes that great "zip zip zip" sound.

But that was back in the early '80s. Soon after that came the P-Tex gun that used a much purer and harder base material. The stuff looked like a p-tex candle but you couldn't burn it. For the past 15+ years (different shops) I've been using a base repair tool called the Polyman. It uses a 3mm poly wire and does a real nice repair job.

So what shop was still burning and dripping P-Tex in this day and age? Were you working in some 3rd world country in the Peace Corp? Teaching the locals how to repair thier bases?

 

[Hawkshot99]

When did you get your PEs ?

Dripping P-Tex makes that great "zip zip zip" sound.

But that was back in the early '80s. Soon after that came the P-Tex gun that used a much purer and harder base material. The stuff looked like a p-tex candle but you couldn't burn it. For the past 15+ years (different shops) I've been using a base repair tool called the Polyman. It uses a 3mm poly wire and does a real nice repair job.

So what shop was still burning and dripping P-Tex in this day and age? Were you working in some 3rd world country in the Peace Corp? Teaching the locals how to repair thier bases?

I work in a ski shop. My shop does not do the tunes we bring in. We send them to our other store that has all of the machines and fancy tuning stuff. This P-texing was of my own skis that I took care of rather than sending them away. The P-tex I use is meant for the guns(like a hot glue gun) but I do not have one. So I lite it on fire and hold it very close to the base(blue flame). The PE's were 06-07 models..

 

[skidmarks]

I work in a ski shop. My shop does not do the tunes we bring in. We send them to our other store that has all of the machines and fancy tuning stuff. This P-texing was of my own skis that I took care of rather than sending them away. The P-tex I use is meant for the guns(like a hot glue gun) but I do not have one. So I lite it on fire and hold it very close to the base(blue flame). The PE's were 06-07 models..

You got it! Hold the p-tex over a metal scraper close so the flame stays blue and clean. Then move the scraper over the base and move the candle over the damage.

It's a long lost art form! We all used to have long hair so you'd always worry about burn't hair too.
And we'd be listening to Jeff Beck on 8 track to boot.