Preparing your Snowboard

Preparing your Snowboard


THE IRONING METHOD

1. Set the iron to medium heat in a well vented area.The board should be at room temperature.

2. Hold the heated iron upside down vertically so the pointy tip touches your base. Hold the wax against the iron and the wax will pour down onto the tip of the iron.

3. Move up and down the board drawing lines of wax. Circles are cool too. Don't use too much wax, less is better. You want just enough to spread a THIN layer across the entire base.

**** if the wax smokes off of the iron it is too hot not to mention really bad for your lungs ****

4. Now lay the iron flat on the base and spread the wax. Just like for clothes, keep it moving around.

DO NOT LET IT STAY IN ONE SPOT OR
YOU WILL MELT YOUR BASE!!!

Work it in good until all is covered.
5. Let stand for 30 mins or so.

SCRAPING THE BASE

Scraping and the base should not feel warm or it will get damaged.

1.Hold the scraper at a 45 degree angle and scrape with the top leading. Like this -> / If you scrape with the bottom leading, it may gouge your base. Scrape until all the wax is gone.

Although you can't see it, plenty of wax has melted into the pores of the p-tex base and that is what the board slides on. Not wax, but wax-filled p-tex.

2. Now take a scotch brite pad and buff buff buff. Just like buffing a car. The buffing gets what the scraper can't and will give a super-smoothe glide.

Some riders finish with a nylon or brass brushing, or a speed wax paste.


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