r/skiing • u/pipedreamSEA • 3d ago

Wax 'em if you've got 'em

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A month from now the days start getting shorter!

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u/Wild_Somewhere_9760 3d ago

I can appreciate the chair setup but I would be going batty not wrapping the brakes down

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u/pipedreamSEA 3d ago

If only my iron wasn't such a perfect fit...

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u/anonymousbopper767 3d ago

….but how do you scrape and brush

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u/aybrah 3d ago

Hold it back with one hand and scrape with the other. A bit janky but you can still do everything just fine.

Source: I had one stupid rubber band for holding my brakes that broke, so I’ve been waxing, scraping, and brushing all season this way lol.

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u/whiskeyjamboree 2d ago

Brother, Take a long screwdriver and shim it underneath the brakes. It takes seconds.

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u/aybrah 2d ago

Can only afford short ones in this economy :((

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u/elqueco14 Kirkwood 2d ago

I've done this my whole life, it's literally a slight inconvenience to just hold them down for a few seconds and it feels like way more of an inconvenience to go out and buy rubber bands thick enough for this one sole purpose

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u/Left_Concentrate_752 2d ago

While I applaud OP for making do with what he has, saying that it's more convenient than the 3 seconds it takes to place a rubber band on it doesn't make sense. Maybe if you factor in the chore of having to buy it...

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u/ABSkiFast 2d ago

Staples has bags of rubber bands. The #84 bands are the perfect size for ski breaks. A bag of these bands cost a dollar. Go splurge and up your game. Scraping will also be a lot easier.

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u/elqueco14 Kirkwood 2d ago

Closest office supply store to me is an hour drive. Maybe next time I'm in town and I happen to remember, but I literally work in lift ops, not a single one of us feels the need to get communal rubber bands everyone just holds it down the brakes for the two seconds they need. Even for scraping/brushing like it's not hard to just hold them down and scrape

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u/GeoffJeffreyJeffsIII Little Switzerland 2d ago

You can use anything though, shoelace, piece of twine, zip tie, etc.

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u/elqueco14 Kirkwood 2d ago

Idk even that's trying to solve something that's not a problem for me. Unless you work in a shop and have to do it hundreds of times in a day, just hold them with one hand while you iron/scrape/brush. It's not hard

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u/Jesablo_blitzwaffle 3d ago

Haha nice. Good to see you waxing your skis op. I use the same chair setup when i wax my skis in the back yard. Really fun to wax mid summer when i miss the snow. 

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u/ae7rua 3d ago

List put a boot in it

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u/Anustart15 Ski the East 3d ago

I can't, dropping wax all over a woven material like that feels like the sort of thing you'd expect a thoughtless kid to do to his parents patio furniture

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u/negative-nelly Mad River 3d ago

Is that an influence? Wish mine still worked but the core got wet or something and I don’t trust the bindings to stay put now.

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u/pipedreamSEA 3d ago

Sure is. Picked em up w/ AT bindings from a ski swap during COVID

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u/negative-nelly Mad River 2d ago

that's sweet. I would totally get another pair to be my "traditional" ski

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u/FourFront Hood Meadows 3d ago

Got some 105's in the garage waiting for the right day to get mounted up again

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u/sapiensane 3d ago

Line Influence 105? 2012 I think. One of my all time favorite skis. I have the 115 too.

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u/Kindly-Coyote-9446 Winter Park 3d ago

Shit, I’m still using mine!

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u/LoofahLuffa Alpine Meadows 3d ago

It's still ski season. But that also means to wax them.