yogiskier
Angel Diva
Not sure if this is the right forum, but...I just got the "standard" tune at a local shop in the Boston suburbs and then skied 2 days in rough conditions - meaning we had a warming trend in Southern New England last week and rain all weekend, so where I skied on Monday there was a lot of slushy, dirty snow and after a cool-down, Wednesday was nicer, but still dirty in spots. My bases are now showing white horizontal streaks and white along the edges.
From what little I know about tuning, I know my skis need wax. My first question is, do I just need a wax, or do I also need the belt grind and edge that is usually sold as part of the cleanup tune? Do shops do just wax anyhow? Before y'all recommend that I learn to hot iron wax my skis myself, I'll just say that learning how to wax my skis was going to be a goal for next year, not for the next few days before going skiing again!
I also want to check that it was a conditions issue that I need a wax so soon (soon for me anyway) and not a quality of waxing issue. When I picked them up, I had asked them what wax they used and they said something something for 22-34 degrees which seemed cooler than what I needed based on the rainy, upper 30's forecast, but I didn't feel comfortable interrogating them, since I hadn't asked for a specific temperature wax when I dropped them off, and to give them the benefit of the doubt, they might have assumed that I was heading up North with temps closer to freezing, instead of where I went, to Connecticut where it was in the upper 30's on Monday.
I assume if the shop doesn't specify the kind of waxing, it's a belt wax versus a hot iron wax. What difference does that make?
From what little I know about tuning, I know my skis need wax. My first question is, do I just need a wax, or do I also need the belt grind and edge that is usually sold as part of the cleanup tune? Do shops do just wax anyhow? Before y'all recommend that I learn to hot iron wax my skis myself, I'll just say that learning how to wax my skis was going to be a goal for next year, not for the next few days before going skiing again!
I also want to check that it was a conditions issue that I need a wax so soon (soon for me anyway) and not a quality of waxing issue. When I picked them up, I had asked them what wax they used and they said something something for 22-34 degrees which seemed cooler than what I needed based on the rainy, upper 30's forecast, but I didn't feel comfortable interrogating them, since I hadn't asked for a specific temperature wax when I dropped them off, and to give them the benefit of the doubt, they might have assumed that I was heading up North with temps closer to freezing, instead of where I went, to Connecticut where it was in the upper 30's on Monday.
I assume if the shop doesn't specify the kind of waxing, it's a belt wax versus a hot iron wax. What difference does that make?