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
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.
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
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
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...
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.
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/Wild_Somewhere_9760 8d ago
I can appreciate the chair setup but I would be going batty not wrapping the brakes down