Dave and Mark dropped off 3 sets of skis between them – Dave’s Scott Superguides got a good going over ages ago when I fixed his stray edge, and Mark was a recent convert just dropping off more planks for some TLC. It’s always nice to see repaired kit back after it’s had some serious use and Dave had taken no prisoners in his efforts to wear down Scotland’s mountains just using his ski bases. Mark’s skis had gone a long time without any love & attention as well. These pictures more or less reflect the state of all 6 planks:
It took quite a bit of P-Tex to fill in the worst of the gouges. As always the critical scratches are the cross-wise ones – the longitudinal grooves end up as part of the renewed structure unless they’re really deep.
You can see a few transverse scratches still left but generally these are too shallow to fill and pretty much disappear as the base is scraped and then restructured.
One thing about restructuring bases is the phenomenal amount of wax they suck up. Once the edges were sorted – no trauma here, they were more or less at factory settings, just a bit blunt – the pink “base renew” wax was gulped down like someone returning from a week in the desert who has just been handed a pint of chilled fermented beverage. Once that was soaked in for an hour or so it got scraped off, the green universal top wax was added and finally everything scrubbed up beautifully:
