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Wax hot box?

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sickynicky
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Any one have any specs to create a wax hot box? Looking to make one to get the optimum saturation of wax into p-tex
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Slinger1x1
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i think its kinda overkill to make a hot box though...
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BWalmer
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yeah, just use a hot iron - unless your racing, or competing in a pipe comp you don't need to hot box your skis. (haha - hot boxing skis, sorry).
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Sklar
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here is a tutorial, might try it myself
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Slinger1x1
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http://www.nordicskiracer.com/cgi-bin/news/news_item.asp?NewsID=448

my bad
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japanada
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Be careful, if you arent careful with your temps, it is easy to delam a pair of skis.
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ski2fast4u
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having built 3 hot boxes and to do it right and safely it costs about $300 atleast and most of that is in the controlers to keep the temp... secondly it only works with really good wax which costs more $$$....watch out thats all i am saying ..
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sickynicky
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my dad does nordic, so im doing it for him
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japanada
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Swix sells one for $2000.
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cool.
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pretty unnecessary unless your racing. being a racer only our tech and a couple friends of mine who specialize in speed have hot boxes.
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caylorswift
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We hotbox every pair of skis before they go out the door.
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