Waxing irons - dedicated wax iron or just get something from thrift store?

[gaijin]

Whatever he put on my RDimes was the best of my life. What was that again? I need to order a block.

I generally wax every fifteen to eighteen hours on snow. Hours six to twelve are usually the fastest. I think glide matters on big skis more than ever and a drop of drag becomes apparent quite easily.

Dominator series has kept me happy. But I need a rotary brush attachment for my drill. I despise scraping and brushing. But I do it. That hatred may or may not have anything to do with the first six hours not being the fastest. Haha.

I would say I can feel a five percent shift in glide as the wax gets skied.

/still the best skier on the mountain. But now it’s in an intricate and annoying kind of way. The kind that hates new boots and shitty wax.


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[Djongo Unchained]

I’m with you, haha.

Yeah, custom skis with a 9th grader ski tune is def the best sales model.

Poorly tuned skis are for terminal kooks.

[banzai]

Snatched a Toko T14 a few years ago for 70EUR. I use Swix BP88 as a general purpose wax and Swix HS6 as a colder wax. The iron works well with the BP88, but I find it struggles with the HS6, especially if there is a lot of real estate to work with. Would a pro 25mm base iron work much better with hard waxes?
IME I would rather ski on a hard wax, unless it gets wet and sloppy, but its such a pita to work with.
Ordered some Maplus(Briko) med base to try out. Loads of good reviews around.

[gaijin]

Dominator Bullet is the hardest I’ll deal with. And even then it’s only crayoned on and/or dripped along the edges. I’ve been known to iron that in and then crayon/iron a softer wax (aka dominator zoom) just so I can scrape the bases and not get a flaky scrape.

[Djongo Unchained]

I stick mostly with wintersteiger waxes; blue is the coldest I will go and Green is too fucking hard to deal with.

And I prob ski in as cold as mags wanna ski conditions on many days. Red is standard, yellow, when warmer, say above 26f.

I always scrape, then rotobrush, and maybe handbrush if I wanna really clean the structure.

Frequent fresh snow means considering conditions almost daily.

My svst roto handle is longer and fits 2 smaller brushes so I have a short and long bristle spinning at the same time. One for digging, the other more polishing. Its the ticket.

[banzai]

I’m on the swix roto handle with vacuum adaptor. It’s more difficult to move around with the hose attached, but does a good job of sucking the excess small particles. I use one-four-zero mm vole roto brushes.

Having two small ones (seventy mm ?) side by side sounds very time effective, but don’t you end up with an uneven finish?


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