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Thread: Waxing with What?

  1. #1
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    Waxing with What?

    I just purchased a heat gun. Looking through the manual at the temperature suggestions for various projects I come across the following:

    Use Temp. Setting
    Removing:
    Floor coverings (adhesive backed) . . . .......... . .350º - 750º F
    Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .750º - 1150° F
    Drying:
    Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250° - 550º F
    Plaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250° - 550º F
    Heating:
    Shrink-tube (electrical) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .350° - 650º F
    Frozen water pipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1150° - 1350º F
    Molding and bending Plexiglass and Formica . .. .250° - 450º F
    Waxing skis .and snowboards . . .. . . . . . . . . .250° - 450º F


    Any body actually do that? I'm an iron guy myself, but a heat gun seems like a real inefficient and difficult way to go about it.

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    I use a heat gun to help get base welds to stick. Be careful. (I melted the base on some junk skis the first time I tried this.)
    Quote Originally Posted by powder11 View Post
    if you have to resort to taking advice from the nitwits on this forum, then you're doomed.

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    I use the heat gun for base welds and all ptex work. Heat up a stainless puddy knife, melt plastic, press. Works great.

    Never used it to wax, but have made a few passes on real cold nights to warm up the base just a bit.

    But, you ndo need to be real carefule - you do not want to melt an epoxy.

  4. #4
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    A little over a year ago we had a guy in the snowboard department in our shop who thought it was a good idea to go wave a heat gun over boards for about 5 minutes after he waxed them. I must have told him at least three times that it wouldn't be doing any good and there was a good chance he'd fuck up the boards. He took no notice and I stopped caring (if it had been someone in ski dept I would have taken more action). Well, a while later an unhappy customer comes back in with a board he had in for a touch up, and the snowboard manager comes to me looking confused. "Have a look at this base - it's all bumpy and wavy..."

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