Hi,
We may have a rather large team of beginners this year. I'm looking for a quicker glide wax method for 5k races in variable Oregon snow.
Have any of you used Swix's Fast Clean Iron Method? This would eliminate scraping & brushing supposedly.
All the fluro paste waxes I've tried (F4, Toko, Fast Wax) have had worse glide than plain Toko yellow. Any easy to apply fast liquid/paste out there?
A topic near and dear to my heart. I've worked a bit with similar group as you and for "quick and easy" waxing, I've found the Swix Fluorinated Liquid Glide Waxes work quite well (different category altogether than F4). Also, for cleaning, Swix has a new I84 base cleaner (liquid) that works quite well and is supposed to be designed to prep a ski to take flourinated wax.
The Swix Fast Clean Iron Method is really a variation of what Toko used to offer with wax-impregnated strips that went onto a special clip on an iron. I used this for a long time with decent results. (Besides eliminating scraping (not so sure about brushing)--the paper also picks up dirt from the ski really well.)
Hope that helps,
Jon
Thanks much Jon. Did you switch to the Swix liquids because they took less time or because it produced faster skis? Both?
Briko-Maplus has a large line of liquid fluor waxes. Anyone out there have experience w/ those?
I've been a waxing traditionalist for too long & need to learn new tricks.
I am not sure if this will help but I am a painting contractor, I get large volumes of wood that I have to sand,stain, lacquer sand lacquer. Thousand of feet at a time. I set myself up to be fast and accurate. I use the same approach to waxing skis. I have waxed 40 pr for the local school in about 2 hrs. If you want me to be more specific let me know.
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