Dirtbag waxing kit

[dgilligan02]

Is there a Wax Your Own Fucking Skis thread?

I’d like to give it a try. I guess I just need something to melt wax, a brush or two, and a scraper. Well, wax too.

Any dirtbag ideas on sourcing the components cheap is appreciated.

[ill-advised strategy]

Thrift store iron. Hardware store brush and scraper.
Good wax is worth the money, but you don’t need flouro. Wax is cheapest in bulk, so find a bum or two or three to split costs with and make a big order of svst house brand blue (cold wax is decent for warmer snow but warm wax can be very slow on cold snow).

If you care about your skis, get a cheap or free pair from goodwill or wherever and use those to practice with your tools and techniques until you’re confident.

[happytimefunbox]

ias nailed it /thread

[dunfree]

dirtbag? iron, wax, plastic scraper.

[Cdubmpdx]

I like to polish em off with a scotchbrite pad too. But as said above. It's very easy. Watch a YouTube video for reference. You have to have a pretty hot iron to ruin your skis. Get the iron just hot enough to melt the wax. I like the travel irons with no holes if you can find a cheap one. Use a firm nylon brush.

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[Pass Rat]

As others have said, thrift store iron, brass/horsehair hardware store brush, and a plastic hardware store scraper. Don't worry about screwing things up, provided you always keep the iron moving it is almost impossible to burn skis.

[cmcrawfo]

Paraffin / canning wax is a pretty dirt bag option.

[adrenalated]

Brush is optional. Iron, good wax, scraper, done.
I would spend money on a scraper sharpener before spending money on a brush.

[slowroastin]

WD-40


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[GoldenBC]

practice waxing your skis on a thrift store pair? it's waxing your skis, not doing a sidewall replacement. Just slam some beers, close your eyes and giver. It's not going to end up much different.

If you want to dirtbag it, get scraped wax from your local ski shop floor, melt it into a bar, rub bar on bases, iron and ski. Don't melt it onto your bases otherwise you will get so much on there that you need to actually scrap it....waste of wax, waste of time.

[snoqpass]

Welcome to Epic Ski

[patxi]

I would spend money on a scraper sharpener before spending money on a brush.

This is true. Nothing is more inefficient than trying to use a dull scraper.

But buy a panzer file (like this one) instead of a dedicated scraper sharpener. They work well for sharpening scrapers but can also be used for flattening base damage, base repairs, etc.,..

[Djongo Unchained]

I'd add owning a bastard file. Nicked edges will make waxing fucked. Learn to use one file for all edge action. And it makes a reasonable scraper sharpener.

Iron, Wax, File, Scraper, Scrubbie

[3PinGrin]

I'd add owning a bastard file. Nicked edges will make waxing fucked. Learn to use one file for all edge action. And it makes a reasonable scraper sharpener.

Iron, Wax, File, Scraper, Scrubbie

all of this ---^

[cmcrawfo]

I bet you could use candle wax and a fire place to wax a pair of skis...

These dentist “dirt bags” and their fancy irons, files and scrapers. Probably the same “ski bums” with two house, A/c and an Audi

[ill-advised strategy]

Welcome to Epic Ski

Yeah...I figured maybe the OP was a youth with insufficient ski-related mentorship.

[snoqpass]

Yeah...I figured maybe the OP was a youth with insufficient ski-related mentorship.

I had assumed today’s youth knew how to use the Internet

[waxoff]

I had assumed today’s youth knew how to use the Internet

This is using the internet...

[Djongo Unchained]

" The key to the Q and P is that you wanna be smokin' your friends, on the traverses."

OP - if you can't "source" these items on your own, you will be sadly incapable of actually using them.

[riff]

I’ve had good luck with a metal scraper. Never gets dull, just be careful with pressure.


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[cmcrawfo]

Dirtbags use their other ski as a scraper

Only the bourgeoisie would own such opulent things as metal scrapers

[ClayCole]

Brush is optional. Iron, good wax, scraper, done.
I would spend money on a scraper sharpener before spending money on a brush.

A mill file can be used as a scraper sharpener AND be used to sharpen edges. A dedicated tool for sharpening a scraper is not very dirt bag....

You don't need any brushes, just an iron and plastic scraper and wax.

I recommend the oldest, heaviest, no-steam-holes iron you can find at the thrift store. The ones from the 1950's hold the heat really well so you don't have to pause to let them heat back up when you're ironing the wax in. Any iron will work though. Steam holes tend to collect wax and smoke like crazy so avoid them if you can.

[The Tortoise]

Agreed that the steam iron isn't best, but it will work just fine if you have one laying around.

OP sounds like the perfect candidate for the DPS Phantom glide.

[Alpinord]

Be sure and reuse wax scrapings, too.

[Talisman]

[QUOTE=The Tortoise;5529431]Agreed that the steam iron isn't best, but it will work just fine if you have one laying around./QUOTE] I used a $2 yard sale steam iron set to "wool" to wax skis for decades with great results. Yes some wax collects around the steam holes. Someone regifted me a Swix waxing iron and I tossed two buck trudy.