Waxing Your Snowboard The Right Way
If you have the pleasure of owning your own snowboard, you’ll want to make sure it gets the best treatment. One way you can do this is by ensuring that the wax on the base if always well applied. The reason you wax the board is not to increase grip like waxing surfboards, it’s instead to make the board more slippery and faster on the slopes. The wax actually seeps into the board’s base when applied. When you ride on the snow the wax actually causes a melting effect, so essentially you end up planing on a micro-thin water layer. Here is the advice you need to apply wax the right way
clean off previous wax layer. You need to make sure the board is clean and the base is exposed before you apply new wax. To do this, use a plastic scraper and use long sweeping movements to take off the wax. You may want to use a hair-dryer to soften the wax and base cleaner which you can get from a snowboards retailer. The base can be scratched or cut if you use a metal utensil though, so avoid these at all costs.
Iron on the wax. Take an iron and set the temperature so that it just melts the new wax slowly. This is usually the same temperature you would use to iron cotton. Touch the wax against the irons base when you have the optimum heat and drip it around the bottom side of board. Now, to disperse the wax around you’ll need to place the iron right on the base and smooth it out.
Finishing. After around 30-35min cooling time, you can now work on finishing the board. This means you need to buff the wax with a rag until you get a shine from it. Finally texture the wax and remove any prominent areas by brushing it down with a hard-bristled brush, before buffing it for a final time. Now your ready for a little extreme sports action
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