Zobrazují se příspěvky se štítkemCM 26. Zobrazit všechny příspěvky
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středa 12. listopadu 2025

How to use SKI GO CM 26 - comments...

SKI GO recommends to use this product for wet warm conditions. Wet and warm conditions are specified by water film in the interface between ski base and snow surface which can be differently thin or thick depending on the amount of so-called free water in the snow. Free water is water inside snow surface which originates from ice crystals or ice grains melting. The higher the free water content inside snow surface, the thicker the water film between snow surface and ski base surface.

 

ISSUES

 

GRAPHIT WAX as base

 

SKI GO recommends to use GRAPHIT WAX as first layer under the product CM 26, they explain the application of black wax containing either graphite or carbon black as separation or stabilisation layer which should block substances below the competition wax to interfere with it. To be honest this is very strange idea. Why? A Black wax containing either graphite or carbon black reacts the same way with the ski base as any other hydrocarbon wax with additives. It penetrates amorphous regions and cannot penetrate the crystalline regions of the ski base. In amorphous regions hot-applied HC wax with additives is retained mechanically in cavities inside the UHMWPE. Graphite works as dry lubricant, carbon black as spherical nano-particles increases hardness, improves electro- and heat-conductivity, improves abrasion resistance. As you can see no features which are relevant in wet and warm conditions. Black wax containing either graphite or carbon black will fill the cavities inside the molecular structure of UHMWPE. Especially the spherical nano-particles of carbon black will reduce the ability of the following layers to connect to UHMWPE.

 

The idea of a stabilisation of separation layer is pure nonsense!


YELLOW HC WAX as another base 

 

SKI GO recommends to use YELLOW HC WAX below the CM 26 product. Special recommendation is not to brush the ski base after application of this layer. To be honest this is another very strange idea. Why? With brushes excess wax out of structures is removed, at least partly. If ski base is not brushed after wax hot-application, the structure grooves will remain filled with wax, this amount of wax is huge compared to amount wax which would be on the ski base if brushed.

 

If you apply the CM 26 product on such a surface, you will dilute the applied product significantly. You will create a mixture of YELLOW HC WAX (partly mixed with the black wax) and CM 26 product. If the product CM 26 should have very specific features regarding water and dirt repellency, you would reduce them due to mixing it with another product.


To dilute a specific product with promised excellent water and dirt repellency does not make sense!

 

DIRT REPELLENCY

 

Warm and wet conditions contain normally a high amount of free water but quite often also a high amount of dirt which also needs to be repelled. In wax-based products normally short-chained wax types are normally used due to their optimal water repellency features and low friction values. Short-chained wax types have, however, also some disadvantages: they are not abrasion resistance (no big issue under wet conditions) and not optimal dirt repelling.


Dirt repelency should be tested in detail!