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snowboard waxing iron

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#1 ·
Picked up this Black and Decker $12 iron at Target the other day. (Buy the Black and Decker Steam Iron | F210)

Will this thing be OK to use to wax my board? Should I cover it with tin foil or something similar or just use it as-is?

I've always used a snowboard-specific waxing iron but the one I've always had got lost somewhere between last winter and now...

Thanks for the help.
 
#13 ·
Nope.......your hubby should.......therefore he loses his "cred".:D
:laugh::laugh: +1 :laugh::laugh:

I just waxed one of my boards for the very first time the other day! (...only reason I tried was now that I got two decks, I can't afford $15-$20 bucks a pop for ea.!!! (gotta admit,.. even tho I thought I did a crappy job. Board really flew last night!!) :D
 
#16 ·
Never taking my board to be waxed at the resort again! So mad. If I mess up my board I take responsibility for it. I dont expect it to be pretty forever. But when someone else does it.....grrrrrr!

Husband took it in to be waxed while I was helping my daughter get her ski boots on. When he brings it back there are scratches all over the top of it and one of my union bindings has a big ass dent in the heel cup. How hard to you have to hit one of those heel cups to dent it? So mad.

So, I am buying an iron this week and will be doing it myself from now on.
 
#18 ·
It sucks to learn valuable lessons the hard way. Lol! :laugh: As for how hard it is to dent a heel cup, I'd say they slammed it pretty good. I know I'm not nice on my equipment, but I've never dented the heel cup on my union Flites, and believe me, there are time where I thought for sure I should have. Also, my waxing iron came from Goodwill. I think I paid a dollar for it. Don't overthink it, it's just wax. ;)
 
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