Skiboard Maintenance for Beginners
A Tognar Toolworks catalog has a lot of good information for maitenance.
Wax:
Want smooth ride? Keep your skiboards waxed as much as possible! Groove skiboards have extruded bases, which my research shows need more wax than sintered bases used skis and snowboards. I read that extruded bases are less dense than sintered, and so require more
wax, more often. Concerning Zardoz NotWax—right on the package instructions Zardoz says "not for extruded
bases". However, Doc at Skiboards.com uses NotWax, as does Nathan Chappell of ChappellSkiboards, and they're happy with it—and they are serious skiboarders! You can use it withoutany problem but you should use regular wax when you can. Its been said recently that Zardoz hastested a new combination: if you use a layer of Zardoz, then a layer of a hot wax, and then rub
Zardoz on top of that you will get the fastest results ever. They also said when you get your hot wax done, tell the shop to treat them like snowboards, not skis.
Using a traditional universal wax and it seems to work fine. Your mileage may vary—post your
results on my message board please!
Edges:
The Tognar catalog says that you need to keep your steel edges clean and polished. That means
1)
Dry them out at the end of the day so they don't rust. Some skiers use an oil product to keep
the edges protected from moisture between trips to the mountain. See the Tognar catalog to make
sure you don't screw up the base with whatever oil you have lying around the garage! A
vegetable oil would probably work well, I have used it on knives and it keeps the rust off pretty
good.
2)
Keep a stone to polish out nicks and rust. And don't whack your edges together when you're
bored while sitting on the lift--that creates nicks that will sureley catch an edge about half way
down and drop you on your butt!
P-Tex:
There are various ways to fix scratches and gouges and holes on the base and you should do it
ASAP, or rather have it done at the shop. Again, that's your base you're riding on and if you
rough it up riding over rocks and stuff your ride will suffer, and you'll dump it right in view of that
cute person you were about to ask over to the lodge for a nice warm drink... Get it fixed or you
wont be able to get any!......ehheh and treat your skiboards like they were your children, alow as little harm as possible come to them as you can, and they will take care of you real good.
Special Thanks To Mark Galbraith
for these tips.
