never use a base cleaner on your snow board

please read the following if you want the longest life of your board and the beast performance.....read "HOT WAX AND BASE CLEANING"....TRUST ME ON THIS ...ITS WORTH THE READ

 

http://www.tognar.com/waxing_tips_ski_snowboard.html

i've read that before.

good site, learned alot bout waxes

am i missing something?  where does it say never use a base cleaner?  the only thing i saw was to put it on a cloth instead of directly on the base?

yeah i can see how it can dry it out pretty badly if you use too much.  but i only use it at the end of the season to clean off the crap from spring conditions.  and i pour a little on the cloth and try to wipe it off.  if it doesn't take enough off, i then put a little more.  i think that warning is for people who pour it all over. 

this is what i saw on the site:

BASE CLEANER TIP
A leading p-tex manufacturer advises that to help minimize any chance of reduced wax absorption after cleaning ski or snowboard bases, wax solvents should not be poured directly on a base, but rather sprayed or dripped onto a clean, lint-free cloth or piece of fiberlene or base tex paper, and the base cleaned with the cloth.

Originally posted by yipperzz yeah i can see how it can dry it out pretty badly if you use too much.  but i only use it at the end of the season to clean off the crap from spring conditions.

This is exactly when you shouldn't use base cleaner... at the end of the season.  At the very least, if you do use base cleaner, apply a generous layer of hot wax on your board before you store it so that the base doesn't dry out in the offseason.

Aren't fake snow and real snow the same thing?  Anyways I enjoyed reading this, kind of like a refresher course. Thanks

I usually just clean my base with a warm rag before I wax

Originally posted by bluedot_snow they must have changed the format a little because there wasn't a section that matched the phrase hot wax and base clean. I did read that a solvent or cleaner should be applied to a towel first and oh wait did they forget to mention to dilute it first!?! anyone who's going to dump a bottle of simple green or paint thinner on there deck and call it clean doesn't deserve to ride a snowboard they make these things called, oh what are they called directional skis?

thats what i like to see.

Hmmmm. Interesting.

Thank you!!!  I have been looking for a solid link to reference, now I've got one. 

good tips here... i have no idea how temp consistent my dakine iron is... im getting worried 

^ good to here that they are dependable. Gonna have to grab it for like 12 bucks now :D

i have heard you can use windex as a substitute for a base cleaner.  Any thoughts on this?

windex??!!!...just buy some Simple Green

unfortunately, base cleaner* may be the only option that will get all that stubborn spring dirt off your base...or at least the only real option for us basic, non-pro snowboarders 

that dirt impregnated wax is hard to get off, but don't be tempted to just pour base cleaner on the base and walk away - don't let it sit!  Instead, pour it on a cloth and just keep rubbing the base just until the dirt is gone...then hot wax immediately

you may want to wait until the season is over to use any base cleaner... that way, after cleaning, you can just melt a fat storage layer of wax on there for summer



*(or any all purpose orange/citrus based house cleaner)

Great knowledge to have, Thanks!

What do you use, like what type of cleaner. Goo gone, Mean Green,etc.

Waxing your board is for cheaters! Just ride edge to edge all the time and you avoid the need to wax your board :)

cool lots of good tips

the title of this article is wrong

from the article itself:

"BASE CLEANER TIP
A leading p-tex manufacturer advises that to help minimize any chance of reduced wax absorption after cleaning ski or snowboard bases, wax solvents should not be poured directly on a base, but rather sprayed or dripped onto a clean, lint-free cloth or piece of fiberlene or base tex paper, and the base cleaned with the cloth."

lol, pretty decent overview of waxing though, but this is too much for an average consumer, this really does mean much to anyone, unless your actually competing

Originally posted by aecho1231 i wouldnt recommend using dish washing detergent. go to your local auto zone place, and get oil remover/greese wash.

no you don't use any of that, you buy a citrus based base cleaner from your local snowboard shop

what canadianbacon said, its a citrus base cleaner that you want to clean the board not excatly a oil remover NOR dish washing detergent