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Skin Rehab
Repair Details
- Price: $70.00
Skin glue is an amazing product, sticky to many things never drying out and allowing skins to be repeatedly attached and removed from skis. Problem is they also have a nasty tendency to pick up stray pet hair, moss from trees, dirt in the spring, pine needles stray food in the pack, damn near anything. So eventually the $160 skins you bought just quit sticking to your skis.
Skin rehab is the answer if you do not want to buy new skins every couple seasons. Some folks try and do this one at home by ironing heavy paper sacks (old grocery style) to the base of the skin and then peeling it off after the skin glue has bonded with the sack and been heated enough to soften and pull away. Good Luck with that one.
While much of the work we do can be easily done at home with the right tools, this is one job that is worth every nickel we charge for it. We use a tool that is essentially a large old school soldering iron with a heavy steel tip that is about 4 inches wide and ½ inch thick. It has a sharp scraper like edge and after about 30 minutes of warming up it is hot enough to burn the hell out of your hand and just hot enough to melt the skin glue on the bottom of the skins. We have a big 2x12” board that we secure the skin to and slowly scrape off all the old skin glue, pine needles and dog hair and squirrel feces that are on the bottom of the skins. After about an hour of clean up the skins are ready for 3-4 coats of liquide skin glue or a single iron on sheet of glue off a roll. We use both depending on the particular skin and the amount of work needed to clean the skin up. After a couple days of dry time the skins are ready for another season or two.
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