Home wax room

[Lilledonmarco]

Ok, it’s finished.


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Very impressive! Oh to only have that much space...

 

[jt10000]

That's better than a tarp, but you're still walking around on the wax drippings. The problem is that typical vises hold the ski over the edge of the table. Better to move the ski back from the edge and keep most of the wax off the floor.

This.

I live in an apartment so don't have a dedicated space, but if I did I'd have the skis over something on the bench to catch dripping. And I'd have major focus on ventilation. In short, management of drippings, scrapings, fumes and dust would be high priorities.

 

[Scruffy]

I used to do the tarp on floor, but that got old with the number of skis I tune--way too many for myself, and I also wind up tuning for friends and family ( for craft beer or other barter ). I used to have one tuning bench that served as a tune and wax bench, but wax shavings and drips would always find a way onto the floor, or tarp, and then I'd have to manage cleaning and folding the tarp. Last year I finally got around to building a separate waxing bench. I actually built a new tuning bench, and then reconfigured the old one to a waxing only station.

It's an 18 inch x 74 inch plywood tray with Tools4Boards travel vises screwed to the top.
Here it is with a new pair of Rossi Black Ops Senders awaiting their mounting day.

The lip of the tray is just some scrap moulding I had hanging around. It does the job 100% of keeping wax off the floor. I quick hit with the shop vac and it's cleaned right up.

Another look. See the wax drips glistening in the light.

Don't mind the mess; it's a corner of our basement used for storage and such

And this is the new tuning bench. No wax sees this bench. This is just opposite the waxing bench so I can bounce back and forth while tuning and waxing.

Here's the Tools4Boards Travel vise. You can use the clamps or direct mount via screws. Of course you could DIY something to hold skis while waxing using 2x4s and rubber or carpet, but I had these and wasn't using them anymore for tuning so to the wax table they went. They work well for their new purpose. The slightly sticky rubber grips the ski nicely while scraping. I use the shop towel with hot iron method of wax removal, and that gets most of the surface wax off, but I do scrape after it cools and there's still wax that comes off with the scraper.

 

[Dwight]

Figured it was time to start.

 

[cantunamunch]

^ Love the wax patina.

 

[Lilledonmarco]

its almost like a Jackson Pollack painting

 

[cantunamunch]

Is the violet from Briko/Maplus or Purl?

 

[Steen275]

I need some more ideas for containing wax scrapings and drips.. and also maybe some rotobrush?

my new tenants are also avid skiers! so ideas for outside wax room also welcome, I said they could do it outside their side of the house (renting out part of the house to someone on youth national crosscountry team)

I saw this years ago in a shop. Piece of plastic gutter from Ace or Home Depot attached slightly behind the edge of the bench top. It catches scrapings during scraping and then I just brush what's left into the gutter, then using wide paint brush shove them all out one end into the trash can.

 

[Philpug]

I saw this years ago in a shop. Piece of plastic gutter from Ace or Home Depot attached slightly behind the edge of the bench top. It catches scrapings during scraping and then I just brush what's left into the gutter, then using wide paint brush shove them all out one end into the trash can.

@ScotsSkier has this too.

 

[Dave Marshak]

Figured it was time to start.

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That's way too much wax. Switch to an IR heat lamp and you'll have hardly any dripping. It's maybe not as fast as a iron but easier cleanup makes up for it.

dm

 

[Dave Marshak]

I saw this years ago in a shop. Piece of plastic gutter from Ace or Home Depot attached slightly behind the edge of the bench top. It catches scrapings during scraping and then I just brush what's left into the gutter, then using wide paint brush shove them all out one end into the trash can.

That's a nice set up, but he key thing that makes it work is moving the vise back from the edge.

dm

 

[Dwight]

That's way too much wax. Switch to an IR heat lamp and you'll have hardly any dripping. It's maybe not as fast as a iron but easier cleanup makes up for it.

dm

I don't drip now. I have thought about playing with an IR heat lamp. Donation welcomed.

 

[Spinning Wheel]

I have limited garage space to my tuning able has to be somewhat mobile. I have a fairly sturdy router table on locking casters which actually makes a decent base. The plus side of this is that I also got to redo the table to be double sided.

My solution for wax dripping/scaping was to cut a concrete footing form in half and make catch trays for under the vice. I have a tendency to over-engineer things so built them with wood supports that attach magnetically to the tabletop (and yes, I painted everything Toko yellow for fun) So far, it does a pretty good job of keeping the floor clean.

 

[Dwight]

Nice job

 

[crgildart]

Latest variation of my lazy, sloppy, bare minimum requirements home ski tuning set up. One of these days I'll invest in a real ski vise. Haven't used one since I stopped working at a resort..

Washer and dryer if it's too cold or raining outside, but I tried this today and it's actually pretty ergonomic and easy.

 

[crgildart]

Also, isn't there another massively long home tuning bench discussion thread somewhere around here? I'd be OK merging my post in there..

 

[cantunamunch]

Also, isn't there another massively long home tuning bench discussion thread somewhere around here?

Eh, it's not that long unless you're counting the part of the railing that is not under the ski

I'd be OK merging my post in there..

Which post, the one on the end?

 

[Dave Marshak]

Latest variation of my lazy, sloppy, bare minimum requirements home ski tuning set up. One of these days I'll invest in a real ski vise. Haven't used one since I stopped working at a resort..

Washer and dryer if it's too cold or raining outside, but I tried this today and it's actually pretty ergonomic and easy.

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I like that but it would be more secure if you moved the vise close to the house and rested the tail of the ski on the corner rail.

Also, this is even better. Just as secure, and always ready without fooling around with vises:

I gave a away the last vise I had and I wouldn't even think of getting another.

dm

 

[crgildart]

I like that but it would be more secure if you moved the vise close to the house and rested the tail of the ski on the corner rail.

Also, this is even better. Just as secure, and always ready without fooling around with vises:

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I gave a away the last vise I had and I wouldn't even think of getting another.

dm

Ya I was actually thinking of securing the 90* in the center of the ski instead of one end or the other. I'm only toing to lightly touch up the sides so it doesn't need to be all that solid. Scraping wax is what I did today and the grill under the tips with the binding heels securing the tail end worked amazingly well. Nothing was scooting around at all.

As for rain I suppose I could set up under the patio umbrella. I grill under it all the time..