Hi all, a one-week-a-year-skier here from the Netherlands, first post on this forum.
Since 2015 I sharpen and wax my skies myself. For waxing I use Holmenkol universal wax and Betamix Red and a Holmenkol 850 Watt smart waxer.
I want to try something different/better so I went into the dark world of ski waxes. Liked the idea of non-fluoro skiwax and decent performance, so I went for the Swix HS7 skiwax.
Set the iron to 150 degrees C as per package and holy smokes, what an amount of smoke/vapor/fumes came of the iron when I started to melt the wax. Learned that wax should not fume, so I lowered the temperature, but I have to go to 130 degrees to not have the wax fume. What should I think of this? I cannot find any statement from Swix that wax should not fume/smokes when applied, but to me this is common sense.
The wax is not very predictable when melting it onto the base of the ski, sometimes you need to move very slow and go back with the iron, other moments you need to speed up to not overheat the base.
What was also different then what I am used to, is that when you drip the wax onto the base, the drops that fall on the base and cool down gets cracks in them.
I don't know, it was not a good experience, the Holmenkol wax is easier to apply for me.
Is it me or is indeed the Swix HS wax more challenging to apply? Anybody that has experience applying this wax?
After this experience I am very curious how this wax performs on the slopes, have to wait till end of march. Anybody that can share his experience with this wax on the slopes?
Since 2015 I sharpen and wax my skies myself. For waxing I use Holmenkol universal wax and Betamix Red and a Holmenkol 850 Watt smart waxer.
I want to try something different/better so I went into the dark world of ski waxes. Liked the idea of non-fluoro skiwax and decent performance, so I went for the Swix HS7 skiwax.
Set the iron to 150 degrees C as per package and holy smokes, what an amount of smoke/vapor/fumes came of the iron when I started to melt the wax. Learned that wax should not fume, so I lowered the temperature, but I have to go to 130 degrees to not have the wax fume. What should I think of this? I cannot find any statement from Swix that wax should not fume/smokes when applied, but to me this is common sense.
The wax is not very predictable when melting it onto the base of the ski, sometimes you need to move very slow and go back with the iron, other moments you need to speed up to not overheat the base.
What was also different then what I am used to, is that when you drip the wax onto the base, the drops that fall on the base and cool down gets cracks in them.
I don't know, it was not a good experience, the Holmenkol wax is easier to apply for me.
Is it me or is indeed the Swix HS wax more challenging to apply? Anybody that has experience applying this wax?
After this experience I am very curious how this wax performs on the slopes, have to wait till end of march. Anybody that can share his experience with this wax on the slopes?